Hal Hartley

American film director and screenwriter (born 1959)

1.12body-of-work score · ranked #790 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
November 3, 1959 · Lindenhurst
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, screenwriter, theatre director, author
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Hal Hartley
Missy from Brooklyn, New York City · CC BY 2.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1

    1990 · United States · comedy, romance, drama

    Sarris's annual top 10 1991 #1 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.783 citations
  2. 2

    1992 · United States · comedy, drama

    Sarris's annual top 10 1992 #6

    0.181 citation
  3. 3

    1998 · United States · drama

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.171 citation

Complete filmography

All 15 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1989The Unbelievable Truth
  • 1990Trust
  • 1991Surviving Desire
  • 1992Simple Men
  • 1994Amateur
  • 1995Flirt
  • 1998Henry Fool
  • 1998The Book of Life
  • 2000Kimono
  • 2001No Such Thing
  • 2005The Girl from Monday
  • 2006Fay Grim
  • 2011Meanwhile
  • 2014Ned Rifle
  • My America