Hal Hartley Movies

A woman talks about how hard her life is.

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

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

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

A short documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'

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

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...

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

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

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 mundane circumstances of a city under siege.

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...

Over one night in New York City, lives of disparate strangers intersect by fate and circumstance.

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

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...

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

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.