Movies: Alain Tanner
- 1981
Light Years Away (1981)
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A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds...
- 1976
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
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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 editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized dis...
- 1983
In the White City (1983)
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Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon....
- 1998
Requiem (1998)
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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 man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its ...
- 1996
Fourbi (1996)
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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 program. When Rosemonde refuses to divulge details of the events, Paul encourages his actress girlfri...
- 1970
Charles, Dead or Alive (1970)
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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 speaks eccentrically to a reporter, recognizing his grandfather as a craftsman and his son as a businessman, but...
- 1992
The Man Who Lost His Shadow (1992)
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Paul has left his wife and children. Now his wife and ex-mistress is on the hunt for him....
- 1974
The Middle of the World (1974)
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Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss....
- 1973
Return from Africa (1973)
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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 and a poetic text which deeply affected him as a young director....
- 1971
The Salamander (1971)
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Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde.......
- 1993
The Diary of Lady M (1993)
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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 famous, she enjoys her life as a performer who lives just outside the mainstream. Awaiting her backstage on...
- 1984
Cinématon XL (1984)
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Reel 40 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series....
- 2004
Paul s'en va (2004)
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A group of 17 theater actors wonder about what happened to their teacher when he doesn't show up for a class....
- 1987
A Flame in My Heart (1987)
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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 relationship she also has with an “established” journalist. The stories illustrate the absolute claim of a woman...
- 2006
Small Is Beautiful: The Story of the Free Cinema Films Told by Their Makers (2006)
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- 1979
Messidor (1979)
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Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew....
- 1966
A City at Chandigarh (1966)
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Documentary on the construction of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Indian Punjab region, planned by Albert Mayer and Swiss architect Le Corbusier....
- 2002
Flowers of Blood (2002)
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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 Lily, a free spirited cabaret performer. Lily tried to elevate her stripper performances from the le...
- 1985
No Man's Land (1985)
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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 smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to Canada. Mali, a pretty young Al...
- 1968
Le Pouvoir dans la rue (1968)
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May 68 in Paris filmed by Alain Tanner, then director for Swiss Television. Images of Nanterre (92), the Sorbonne (Paris 5e), and the theater of the Odeon (Paris 6th), meetings, speeches and events, are accompanied by a commentary that recounts the e...