Hal Hartley Movies

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

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

A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the...

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

Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome...

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

Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the...

A concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey, during the summer of...

An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.

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...

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...

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

An 18-minute documentary made in 2005 by perennial Hartley actor D.J. Mendel, reunites the director and line producer Ted Hope with actors Adrienne...

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.

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

The mundane circumstances of a city under siege.

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

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