Hal Hartley Movies

Man talking about the United States of America.

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

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

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

A woman talks about how hard her life is.

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks...

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...

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

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