Stranger in the House (French: L'inconnu dans la maison) is a 1992 French crime drama directed by Georges Lautner and starring Jean Paul Belmondo. It is based on a novel by Georges Simenon, previously filmed by Henri Decoin in 1942.
The film marked the director's fifth and last collaboration with Belmondo, and was a commercial failure on its release. It had 413,794 admissions in France.
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Plot
Jacques Emile Marie Loursat is a brilliant lawyer who descended into alcoholism following his wife's suicide. His daughter, Isabelle, who blames him for her mother's death, hasn't spoken to him in ten years. One night, while returning home drunk from a brothel, Loursat hears a gunshot inside his house. Shortly after, he discovers someone dying on the second floor: Joël Cloarec. Police suspicions quickly fall on Antoine Manu, Isabelle's friend, who is charged and then sent to trial. Loursat takes on his defense.
Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo : Lawyer Jacques Loursat
Renée Faure : Fine
Cristiana Réali : Isabelle Loursat
Sébastien Tavel : Antoine Manu
François Perrot : Commissioner Binet
Georges Géret : Ange Brunetti
Hubert Deschamps : Beaupoil
Sandrine Kiberlain : Marie Maitray
Geneviève Page : Loursat's sister
Jean-Louis Richard : Le Procureur général
Guy Tréjan : Le bâtonnier
Pierre Vernier : le président de la Cour d'assise
Mario David : Pascal Abecassis's father
Odette Laure : La patronne