Thomas Jay Ryan Movies

A man returning from a tour of duty is mistaken for his brother by debt-collecting gangsters, while the brother goes on a killing and kidnapping...

A former war journalist now writing for a paper in Northern California is drawn into conflict at home.

Darla owes the IRS $349,000.22. Her burgeoning business Kitty Kasket will never generate that kind of revenue in one month. Enter Mother; your...

A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and...

The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members...

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

In a locked-down NYC, two priests open their church doors to those seeking salvation during the most isolating of times. From the commonplace to the...

A struggling Degas finds inspiration for his art in Marie, a young ballerina. Degas helps Marie tap into the talent she doesn't believe she has while...

Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is...

Theatre director Daniel Fish re-stages old talk show interviews and a scene from Sesame Street in an abandoned Ford dealership in Hudson, New York,...

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

A disconnected man is haunted by a past that is coming full circle in strange and surreal ways.

A group of middle-aged men want out of their marriages, so they hire an ex-mercenary to do the dirty work. Before long, everyone wants in on the...

A small rubber frog named Tiger becomes a major singing star overnight and has to cope with the trappings of stardom.

Cassett's Parisian solitude is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of her brother's three kids, but she soon finds herself inspired and uses the...