Hal Hartley Movies

A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.

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

A minimalist, atmospheric, meditation on the theme of "Love" or "Amour" that focuses on reconciliation and forgiveness.

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.

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.

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 series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and...

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

Man talking about the United States of America.

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

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

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 short documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'

The mundane circumstances of a city under siege.

Louis Andriessen's opera, based on Dante's Divine Comedy, plays out as a combination of a stage production and filmed elements, which sees Dante as a...

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...

Excerpts from performances of Hal Hartley's play "Soon", a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called...

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...