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Movies that feel like The Tenant (1976)

If you loved The Tenant, the closest films we have are Pi (1998), The Game (1997) and Disturbia (2007). All three share The Tenant's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium and Paramount Plus Essential and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 85% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Roman Polanskitensetwistycontemplativedreamlikeparanoid

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If The Tenant hit the spot, these will too

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Pi
1998 Β· dir. Darren Aronofsky
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.3mystery Β· drama Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: paranoia

The difference: Missing the dream logic of The Tenant

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

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The Game
1997 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Tense where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: A 1990s film, from a different era of filmmaking

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

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Disturbia
2007 Β· dir. D.J. Caruso
πŸ… 69%β˜… 6.8thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Both built around neighbor

Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problemβ€”he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.

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Chinatown
1974 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 98%β˜… 8.1crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

The same hand behind both of them: Roman Polanski

The difference: Plays it as crime more than The Tenant does

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

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Unbreakable
2000 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead β€” and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

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Enemy
2014 Β· dir. Denis Villeneuve
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.9thriller Β· mystery

Paranoia is the engine of both

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

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The Village
2004 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 43%β˜… 6.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

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Three Days of the Condor
1975 Β· dir. Sydney Pollack
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.4thriller Β· mystery

Both trade on paranoia more than on being drama

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

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Searching
2018 Β· dir. Aneesh Chaganty
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Twisty thriller in both cases

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

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Rosemary's Baby
1968 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8drama Β· horror Β· thriller

Both are Roman Polanski films, and they rhyme

The difference: Leans horror where The Tenant does not

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

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Cutter's Way
1981 Β· dir. Ivan Passer
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.8drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.

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Rear Window
1954 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 99%β˜… 8.5thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

Both keep circling back to neighbor

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

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