Screenplay: Alain Tanner

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alain Tanner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Charles, Dead or Alive

1969 · Movie · 93 min. · Switzerland

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

6.8

243 votes

6.8

243 votes

The Salamander

1971 · Movie · 124 min. · Switzerland

6.6

364 votes

6.6

364 votes

Requiem

1998 · Movie · 100 min. · Switzerland

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

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

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

5.8

29 votes

5.8

29 votes

The Man Who Lost His Shadow

1991 · Movie · 96 min. · Switzerland

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

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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,...

Not rated

Not rated