Alain Tanner Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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

A montage of the night-life of Piccadilly Circus across the hours, from early evening to the last lingering passers-by.

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...

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

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...

A group of 17 theater actors wonder about what happened to their teacher when he doesn't show up for a class.