Screenplay: Alain Tanner
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alain Tanner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 25
Charles, Dead or Alive
1969 · Movie · 93 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast François Simon · Marcel Robert · Marie-Claire Dufour · André Schmidt
7.0
59 votes
7.0
59 votes
In the White City
1983 · Movie · 108 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Bruno Ganz · Teresa Madruga · Julia Vonderlinn · José Carvalho
Plot Alain Tanner's “In The White City” is a haunting piece that follows a disconnected sailor, namely Paul, who decides to jump ship in Lisbon. Bruno Ganz plays this Swiss sailor,...
6.9
820 votes
6.9
820 votes
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
1976 · Movie · 115 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Jean-Luc Bideau · Rufus Magloire · Miou-Miou · Jacques Denis
Plot An unemployed labourer, Mathieu, gets a job on a small farm run by Marcel and his wife Marguerite. His wife Mathilde is pregnant, and they intend to call the new-born...
6.8
407 votes
6.8
407 votes
Messidor
1978 · Movie · 123 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Clémentine Amouroux · Catherine Rétoré · Franziskus Abgottspon · Hansjorg Bedschard
6.8
243 votes
6.8
243 votes
The Salamander
1971 · Movie · 124 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Bulle Ogier · Jean-Luc Bideau · Jacques Denis · Véronique Alain
6.6
364 votes
6.6
364 votes
Requiem
1998 · Movie · 100 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Francis Frappat · Cécile Tanner · André Marcon · Alexandre Zloto
6.4
139 votes
6.4
139 votes
Light Years Away
1981 · Movie · 107 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Trevor Howard · Mick Ford · Odile Schmitt · Louis Samier
Plot A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.
6.4
330 votes
6.4
330 votes
Nice Time (S)
1957 · Documentary · 17 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alain Tanner · Claude Goretta
6.2
55 votes
6.2
55 votes
A Flame in My Heart
1987 · Movie · 106 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Myriam Mézières · Benoît Régent · Azize Kabouche · André Marcon
Plot The terrifyingly destructive power of a woman's sexual obsession provides the compelling subject for this psychological study of a woman's descent into madness. It is the tale of Parisian actress...
6.2
58 votes
6.2
58 votes
The Middle of the World
1974 · Movie · 111 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Olimpia Carlisi · Philippe Léotard · Juliet Berto · Denise Péron
6.1
51 votes
6.1
51 votes
The Woman Of The Rose Hill
1989 · Movie · 95 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Jean-Philippe Ecoffey · Louba Guertchikoff · Roger Jendly · Denise Péron
Plot A young woman from Rose Hill, Mauritius, arrives in rural Switzerland to marry her pen-pal, Marcel, who is much older.
6.0
76 votes
6.0
76 votes
Jonas et Lila, à demain
1999 · Movie · 120 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Jérôme Robart · Aïssa Maiga · Natalia Dontcheva · Jean-Pierre Gos
Plot A fake sequel to Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 (1976). Jonas is now indeed 25, has studied cinema and is living with his black lover, Lila, in...
6.0
53 votes
6.0
53 votes
Fourbi
1995 · Movie · 114 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Karin Viard · Jean-Quentin Châtelain · Cécile Tanner · Antoine Basler
Plot Rosemonde has sold her story to an important Swiss commercial TV station. Eight years ago (at the age of twenty), she killed a man who was trying to rape her...
5.9
72 votes
5.9
72 votes
No Man's Land
1985 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Hugues Quester · Myriam Mézières · Jean-Philippe Ecoffey · Betty Berr
5.8
29 votes
5.8
29 votes
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
1991 · Movie · 96 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Francisco Rabal · Dominic Gould · Ángela Molina · Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
5.6
203 votes
5.6
203 votes
Les apprentis
1964 · Documentary · 80 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Plot Several teenagers are following a professional apprenticeship. Eleven young girls and boys from different parts of French-speaking Switzerland.
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Paul Is Leaving
2004 · Movie · 85 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast Madeleine Piguet · Julien Tsongas · Lucie Zelger · Pauline Le Comte
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Le retour d'Afrique
1973 · Movie · 108 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Cast François Marthouret · Josée Destoop · Juliet Berto · Anne Wiazemsky
Plot 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 inspired by a poet...
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Docteur B., médecin de champagne (TV)
1968 · Documentary · 61 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Plot Dr B., a field doctor, practices in a small corner of the canton of Vaud. In 1968, in the snow of a harsh winter, filmmaker Alain Tanner filmed his daily...
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L'école (S)
1962 · Documentary · 20 min. · Switzerland
Direction Alain Tanner
Plot The subject is the modern school with the support of the Geisendorf school in Geneva. Thanks to the three screens, it can simultaneously present the children, the material (beams, bricks,...
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