Can you list some good movies set in Brooklyn?

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Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
The Landlord (1970)
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
The French Connection (1971)
Klute (1971)
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Plaza Suite (1971)
Shaft (1971)
Taking Off (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Superfly (1972)
Across 110th Street (1972)
The Hot Rock (1972)
Black Caesar (1973)
Godspell (1973)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Mean Streets (1973)
Serpico (1973)
The Seven-Ups (1973)
Soylent Green (1973)
The Way We Were (1973)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Death Wish (1974)
Harry and Tonto (1974)
The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Deadly Hero (1976)
King Kong (1976)
Marathon Man (1976)
Network (1976)
Next Stop Greenwich Village (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
New York, New York (1977)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
The Wiz (1978)
All That Jazz (1979)
Hair (1979)
Manhattan (1979)
The Warriors (1979)
Times Square (1979)

Raging Bull (1980)
Prince of the City (1981)
Arthur (1981)
Brooklyn Bridge (1981)
The Chosen (1981)
Escape from New York (1981)
Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
Downtown 81 (1981)
Heavy Metal (1981)
Nighthawks (1981)
Ragtime (1981)
Annie (1982)
My Favorite Year (1982)
Night Shift (1982)
Q, the Winged Serpent (1982)
Still of the Night (1982)
Tootsie (1982)
Escape From the Bronx (1983)
Trading Places (1983)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
Splash (1984)
After Hours (1985)
A Chorus Line (1985)
The Last Dragon (1985)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Year of the Dragon (1985)
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Highlander (1986)
The Park is Mine (1986)
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
Graveyard Shift (1987)
Moonstruck (1987)
Radio Days (1987)
The Secret of My Success (1987)
Wall Street (1987)...Show more

I think West Side Story is set in Brooklyn, and for part of the movie "Beyond the Sea," it is set in Brooklyn (not as sure about this one, though)....Show more

vampire in Brooklyn and coming to America is both Eddie Murphy and both really funny...Show more

To find things like this, you do an advanced search (link next to the reg. search box) on Internet Movie Data Base.
Then :
Word Search and pick LOCATION from the drop down menu.

http://www.imdb.com/search

It gives over 1000 matches, so it takes to long too review it, and pick out the best ones ....Show more