LISBON FILM FESTIVAL - 2025 GRAND PRIZE

"a major event."
—Filmmaker Magazine, Vikram Murthi
“…peak Hal Hartley, warm and optimistic, damnedly funny and vital.”
—ABC Radio - Paul F. Verhoeven
“In an age of brain-lacerating tech and herdlike algorithmic group-think, Hartley stands out in ever-grea...

Starring: Liam Aiken, Martin Donovan, Aubrey Plaza, Parker Posey, Thomas Jay Ryan, and James Urbaniak

In the closing chapter of director Hal Hartley’s trilogy about the fractured Grim family, young son Ned (Liam Aiken) embarks on a quest to kill his father for wrecking his mom's life. But a wins...

Starring: DJ Mendel, Miho Nikaido, Kanstance Frakes, Hoji Fortuna, Chelsea Crowe and Scott Shepherd

Original Release: 2012; Language: English; Color

When Joe Fulton's bank account and credit cards are temporarily frozen by the tax authorities, he must walk from Brooklyn to the Upper West Side o...

Starring: Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, Saffron Burrows, Elina Löwensohn, James Urbaniak, Liam Aiken, Leo Fitzpatrick, DJ Mendel, Chuck Montgomery and Thomas Jay Ryan

Originally Released: 2006; Language: English; Color

Fay Grim is afraid her son, Ned, will grow up to be like his father, Henry Fo...

Starring: Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd, Leo Fitzpatrick and Tatiana Abracos

Originally Released: 2005; Language: English; Color, B & W

In the days of the “Great Revolution” the new corporate-state of NYC has been liberated by Triple M, the Major Multimedia Monopoly, which has brought into being the...

Jesus Christ shows up in New York on the last day of the century to begin the end of the world. But he changes his mind.

This was Hartley's first longer video piece using the rough impressionistic distortion techniques he'd developed through the mid 1990's.

"Whimsical... but deeply serious......

Starring: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Liam Aiken, Kevin Corrigan, Miho Nikaido, James Saito, Chuck Montgomery, Nicholas Hope and Maria Porter

Originally Released: 1998; Language: English; Color

Shy and clumsy garbage man, Simon Grim, endures a colorless life with his depresse...

Starring: Bill Sage, Dwight Ewell, Miho Nikaido, Martin Donovan, Karen Sillas, Robert John Burke, Michael Imperioli, Maria Schrader, Elina Löwensohn and Masatoshi Nagase

Originally Released: 1996

Language: English, German, Japanese

A simple story of love and loss told three times in three diff...

Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn, and Damian Young

Originally Released: 1994; Language: English; Color

The hilarious and sad story of an ex-nun who claims to have had a visit, imagined perhaps, from the Virgin Mary instructing her to intervene in the destiny of a trou...

Starring: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn and Martin Donovan

Originally Released: 1992; Language: English; Color

Dennis is a quietly handsome and bookish college student. His older brother, Bill, is a rough hewn ladies’ man and thief. Thrown together to search for th...

Starring: Martin Donovan, Mary Ward, Matt Malloy and Rebecca Nelson

Originally Released: 1991; Language: English; Color

Sophie can't tell anyone she's sleeping with her professor who's young, passionate, and conscience stricken. But Sophie just wants to write about it all. When they hook up, th...

Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Edie Falco, Rebecca Nelson, John MacKay and Gary Sauer

Originally Released: 1991; Language: English; Color

Popularly regarded as one of the essential American Independent films of the 1990s, Trust is a romantic comedy told with Hartley’s characteristic...

Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Edie Falco, Chris Cooke, Julia McNeal, Gary Sauer and Katherine Mayfield

Originally Released: 1989; Language: English; Color

A beautiful college bound girl disturbingly preoccupied with the threat of nuclear destruction falls in love with a handsome...

Starring: Christina Flick

Originally Released: 2010; Language: English, German; Color

An ambitious young actress comes to Berlin to convince an American ex-pat filmmaker she must be his next muse.

Available on Blu-ray in the Flirt, Amateur & Meanwhile box-set from halhartley.com

Screenplay av...

Starring: Jordana Maurer and DJ Mendel; archival footage of Jean-Luc Godard and David Poeppel

Originally Released: 2010; Language: English, German, French; Color

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

Starring: Nikolai Kinski, Bettina Zimmermann and Ireen Kirsch

Originally Released: 2010; Language: English, German; Color

A commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actress friend so she can rehearse her drama school audition while he g...

Starring: Patricia Dunnock, Parker Posey, Adrienne Shelly and James Urbaniak

Originally Released: 1993; Language: English; Color

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

Ava...

Starring: George Feaster, Patricia Sullivan, Rick Groel and Jim McCauley

Originally Released: 1991; Language: English; Color

A day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only frustration and violence.

Available ...

Starring: Bob Gosse, Elina Löwensohn, Bill Sage, Jeffrey Howard, Mark Chandler Bailey, Ingrid Rudefors, Naledi Tshazibane, Jessica Sager and Nick Gomez

Originally Released: 1991; Language: English; Color

In 1990, an aspiring writer tries his hand at real estate, selling Williamsburg Brooklyn as...

Starring: Steven Geiger, Marissa Chibas and George Feaster

Originally Released: 1986; Language: English; Color

A shy and introverted city surveyor has his quiet, scholarly world turned upside down when a young woman mysteriously appears in his apartment. A poetic, sometimes surreal look at both...

Starring: Ricky Ludwig, George Feaster, Karen Sillas, Pamela Stewart, Bob Gosse, Janine Eriksen, David Troup and Leo Gosse

Originally Released: 1985; Language: English; Color

Hal Hartley's thesis film from the State University of New York at Purchase where he graduated in 1984. The film was fin...