Hal Hartley Movies

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

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

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 documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine...

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

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 sort of birthday card for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.

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

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 woman talks about how hard her life is.

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

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

A comical mini opera following the exploits of two goddesses interfering with the lives of mortals. Mistaken identities, miscast spells, and...

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

The mundane circumstances of a city under siege.

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.

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