Hal Hartley Movies

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...

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 short documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

The mundane circumstances of a city under siege.

A short film about friendship, disillusionment, loathing and despair, in which the pictures of three young men talking are juxtaposed with slowmotion...

This film is the visual component of the multi-media collaboration between the composer Louis Andriessen and Hal Hartley.

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...

An 18-minute documentary made in 2005 by perennial Hartley actor D.J. Mendel, reunites the director and line producer Ted Hope with actors Adrienne...

An ambitious and idealistic young actress comes to Berlin to convince an American ex-pat filmmaker that she must be his next muse - the leading lady...

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

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