Hal Hartley Movies

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young,...

Follows a day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only...

A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine...

A documentary concerning the periods between the actual takes during the production of Hartley's short film "Iris," revealing the imagination,...

A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.

21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the...

An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it.

Meanwhile concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a construction project. He...

Joseph Fulton, a famous director, wants to work at a cemetery. Meanwhile, he has his last will and testament drawn up. His girlfriend thinks he's...

In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks...

A hot summer day on a country road. A young woman in her bridal dress gets kicked out of a car. Lost and frustrated, she wanders off across a sea of...

A commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actress friend so she can rehearse her drama...

Self-funded Hal Hartley project shot on 16mm with a focus on a somewhat bizarre romance.

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Short film by Hal Hartley with Parker Posey and Adrienne Shelley.

Man talking about the United States of America.

Hartley's conscientious assistant in Berlin receives weekly letters from her boss and sends him the books he needs as he struggles in Amsterdam to...

The job, should you choose to accept it: two young women playing out roles associated with the purchasing of real estate. Questions regarding the...

Hartley and his wife, Miho Nikaido, travel to Japan to see her parents and reflect on 12 years of marriage, her career ambitions, and the adventures...

A woman talks about how hard her life is.