Hal Hartley Movies

After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...

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...

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

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 young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

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...

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

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

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...

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 sort of birthday card for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.

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

Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, mother and daughter bluff and grift to keep up the lifestyle they think they deserve, bonding over...

A behind the scenes look, including an interview with Hal Hartley, surrounding his play "Soon," a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco,...

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

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

The mundane circumstances of a city under siege.

Man talking about the United States of America.

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