Hal Hartley Movies

A sort of birthday card for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.

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

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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 Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

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 series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Man talking about the United States of America.