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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The mundane circumstances of a city under siege.

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...

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...

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