
Movies that feel likeThe Tenant (1976)
If you loved The Tenant, the closest films we have are Chinatown (1974), Lost Highway (1997) and Three Days of the Condor (1975). All three share The Tenant's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943).
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If The Tenant hit the spot, these will too

The same hand behind both of them: Roman Polanski
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than The Tenant does

The same preoccupation in both: paranoia
The difference: Easier on the melancholy than The Tenant

Tense where it counts, twisty underneath

Roman Polanski working the same nerve twice
The difference: Sits closer to horror than The Tenant does

One thread runs through both: paranoia
The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

Both land stillness and paranoia at once

Both lean on melancholy more than on thriller

Dreamlike mystery in both cases

Both keep coming back to the same thing: neighbor

Drama built on tension, twice over

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

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