Screenplay: Hal Hartley

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Martin Donovan · Adrienne Shelly · Merritt Nelson · John MacKay

Plot When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Robert John Burke · Bill Sage · Karen Sillas · Elina Löwensohn

Plot Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away....

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Martin Donovan · Matt Malloy · Merritt Nelson · Julie Kessler

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Robert John Burke · Adrienne Shelly · Christopher Cooke · Julia McNeal

Plot In Hal Hartley's first feature film, THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH, Josh (Robert John Burke), a criminal who has just been released from prison, returns home to Lindenhurst, Long Island. There he's...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Thomas Jay Ryan · James Urbaniak · Parker Posey · Nicholas Hope

Plot Socially inept garbage man Simon is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty roguish, but talent-less novelist. Henry opens a magical world of literature to Simon who turns his hand to...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Martin Donovan · Elina Löwensohn · Damian Young

Plot Isabelle is an ex-nun waiting for her special mission from God. In the meantime, she is making a living writing pornography. She meets Thomas, a sweet, confused amnesiac who cannot...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast D.J. Mendel · Danielle Meyer · Pallavi Sastry · Lisa Marie Persaud

Plot Hal Hartley's new film Meanwhile concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a construction project. He produces online advertising...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Aubrey Plaza · Parker Posey · Liam Aiken · Robert John Burke

Plot Ned Rifle is the third and final chapter of Hal Hartley’s tragicomic epic begun with Henry Fool (1997) and continued with Fay Grim (2007). At once a saga concerning the...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Bob Gosse · Jessica Sager · Jeffrey Howard · Elina Löwensohn

Plot It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk" Brookylnites who would love to make something of their lives.

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Bill Sage · Dwight Ewell · Parker Posey · Elina Löwensohn

Plot A lover, an ultimatum, a phone call, and a gun: these elements are found in each segment of Hal Hartley's Flirt, an experimental comedy-drama that essentially repeats the same story...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Martin Donovan · P.J. Harvey · Thomas Jay Ryan · Miho Nikaido

Plot The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31,...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Parker Posey · Jeff Goldblum · James Urbaniak · Saffron Burrows

Plot Eight years have passed since the infamous Henry Fool fled the country, abandoning his wife, Fay Grim, and their son, Ned. Henry Fool turned the lives of Simon and his...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Sarah Polley · Robert John Burke · Helen Mirren · Bill Sage

Plot Disgusted with human evolution and a society driven by instant gratification and voyeuristic sensationalism, a foul-mouthed Monster kills anyone who crosses his path. When a news crew sent to investigate...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast George Feaster · Hannah Sullivan · Rick Groel

Plot This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It follows a day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Bill Sage · Sabrina Lloyd · Tatiana Abracos · Leo Fitzpatrick

Plot The Girl from Monday embodies maverick filmmaker Hal Hartley's signature use of a calculated aesthetic and frank dialogue. It may surprise die-hard fans with its sexual explicitness and playful tone....

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Miho Nikaido · Valerie Celis · Ling

Plot This half hour "ambient narrative" was made for the German TV series "Erotic Tales". Inspired by some of the more sensual readings in a collection of classical Japanese poetry, the...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast D.J. Mendel · David Neumann · Miho Nikaido

Plot Two students and their teacher seem to be fighting - literally - over the proper solution to a complex mathematical equation. Is it the key to time and space or...

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Dwight Ewell · Lianna Pai · Paul Schulze · James Urbaniak

Direction Hal Hartley

Cast Lorraine Achee · Marissa Chibas · George Feaster · Steven Geiger

Plot Selffunded Hal Hartley project shot on 16mm with a focus on a somewhat bizarre romance.

Direction Miguel Albaladejo · Alain Berliner · Laurent Cantet · Ildikó Enyedi

Cast Frédéric Pierrot · Michael Degen · Manfred Zapatka · Catherine Baugué

Plot A mini-series of 10 films depicting the approaching turn of the millennium seen from the perspectives of 10 different countries.