Alain Tanner Movies

She's a beautiful gifted performer, but her work is not the sort that invites popular acclaim. Despite the fact that she is unlikely to become...

A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde....

A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy...

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café...

The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a...

Writer Paul attempts to interview Rosemonde, a young woman who killed an alleged rapist in self-defense six years prior, for a true crime television...

Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but...

On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva, Charles Dé the founder's 50-year-old grandson has had it: he...

The work of legendary actor François Simon, son of Michel Simon.

What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a...

Julie is a young woman from Rose Hill who arrives in rural Switzerland to marry her older pen-friend Marcel. She feels unhappy until she meets Jean,...

Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living...

An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, "those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence", Alain Tanner's third film is...

Paul has left his wife and children. Now his wife and ex-mistress is on the hunt for him.

After 40 years Alain Tanner again travels to the port of Genoa, where he worked for a shipping company as a 22-year-old. On the back of his own...

The efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling female in his production.

In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother...