Hal Hartley Movies

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

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

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

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...

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

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is...

Hal Hartley's senior thesis film from SUNY-Purchase. A young man attempts to leave his Long Island suburb, but is thwarted by a series of absurd...

Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her...

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.

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 man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is...

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

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

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

As the muse of Hal Hartley’s indie classics and as writer/director of the critically acclaimed Waitress, Adrienne Shelly was a shining star in...

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 short documentary about the making of 'Fay Grim.'

The mundane circumstances of a city under siege.

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