Rainer Hartleb (born 29 February 1944 in Hildburghausen, Germany) is a German-Swedish director of documentary films.
He is best known for the Jordbro suite, a series of films that follows a group of people from Jordbro from the age of seven, when they began school in 1972, until the present.
As of 2013, Hartleb has made six Jordbro films.
En pizza i Jordbro (1994) won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film at the 30th Guldbagge Awards.
On 13 January 2007 Hartleb won TV4's Guldsolen film prize for 2006.