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The Tenant
FRANCE · 1976

The Tenant

Roman Polanski
paranoia and psychological breakdown identity and alienation urban isolation social persecution mental illness
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Synopsis

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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