The Deadly Trap (French: La Maison sous les arbres) is a 1971 suspense drama film directed by René Clément and set in France.

[1] Jill and her husband Philip are an American couple living in Paris together with their two small children.

The couple contacts the police but Inspector Chameille, who leads the investigation, is unsure whether the children were actually kidnapped or harmed by their erratic mother.

Vincent Canby in The New York Times called it an "arbitrarily muddled" suspense melodrama where "nothing works", and that it "means to demonstrate...the limits of human patience.

"[2] Time Out praised "Clément's nice Hitchcockian-flavoured style and deft use of menacingly 'ordinary' locations" but said that "the ending has an impact similar to the punchline of a shaggy dog story.