Stranger in the House (1992 film)


Stranger in the House 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.

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