Movies by Tamar Halpern

Shelf Life

Shelf Life

A branch library becomes the battlefield for a fierce war of wills in this dark comedy by writer-director Tamar Halpern. A head librarian quietly loathes the new book shelver, a feisty woman fresh out of rehab. But what begins as simmering passive aggression soon spirals into all-out war.

Sinister Assistant

Sinister Assistant

A young woman exacts revenge when she becomes her birth mother's assistant.

Killer Vacation

Killer Vacation

Successful businessman Jake takes his pregnant girlfriend Lindsey on a babymoon trip to an upscale desert resort. When they get there, Lindsey discovers thatJake’s meddlesome soon to be ex-wife, Gwen is there too. In a dream vacation gone wrong, it becomes apparent that someone is determined that Lindsey will never use her return ticket.

Count Back from Ten

Count Back from Ten

A young girl embarks on a journey over land and sea and soul.

My Daughter Is Missing

My Daughter Is Missing

Sara, a former hacker and now an Internet security specialist, has come to Belgrade to attend a conference on cyber crime. Whilst she is there her daughter and a college friend are kidnapped by a Serbian human trafficking ring. Will Sara be able to save them before it's too late?

A Baby at Any Cost

A Baby at Any Cost

When a surrogate grows too fond of the baby she carried for a young couple, they try to disengage from her. But the surrogate starts poisoning the mother (with no danger to the child) in a scam that will keep the surrogate around, and then, when mom is gone, the surrogate will get the child, the husband and the suburban life she so earnestly covets.

Her Affair to Die For

Her Affair to Die For

A young woman’s dad becomes the obsession of her seductive roommate who will stop at nothing to possess him.

John Wang's Nebraska

John Wang's Nebraska

John Wang, a failed New York actor, finds himself stranded in Nebraska where he must teach acting to make enough money to get the heck out of dodge.