Alain Tanner
Alain Tanner (6 December 1929 – 11 September 2022) was a Swiss film director. Influenced by his involvement with the British "Free Cinema" movement in London and with the French New Wave during his years in Paris, Tanner is best known for his movies Jonas qui aura 25 ans en... Read full bio →
Paul s'en va
A group of 17 theater actors wonder about what happened to their teacher when he doesn't show up for a class.
Fourbi
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 girlfriend to befriend her, but the three are repeatedly sidetracked from their initial commission.
Le journal de Lady M
Lady M. gives up everything to follow Diego on an aimless journey. On the way, she learns that he is married to a woman of color and has a child.
L'homme qui a perdu son ombre
Paul has left his wife and children. Now his wife and ex-mistress is on the hunt for him.
La femme de Rose Hill
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, a younger man. However, his father disagrees.
La vallée fantôme
The efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling female in his production.
Dans la ville blanche
A Swiss sailor jumps ship in Lisbon, tired of the noisy engine room, the ship. He rents a room and does little. He writes letters to his lover, describing the whiteness of the city, the solitude and the silence. He sends his love and emptiness; she replies with love and confusion.
Les années lumière
A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds
Messidor
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.
Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000
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 discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm.
Le milieu du monde
Married conservative candidate Paul falls in love with Adriana, an Italian waitress. As his party opposes foreign labor, he risks everything, while Adriana faces mounting pressure to decide her future.
La salamandre
Pierre and Paul, journalist and writer respectively, team up to write a screenplay based on the real story of a young woman accused by her uncle of trying to kill him. They decide to meet her.
Charles mort ou vif (petite fresque historique)
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 is evasive about himself.
Une ville à Chandigarh
Documentary on the construction of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Indian Punjab region, planned by Albert Mayer and Swiss architect Le Corbusier.