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Most of the 1975 Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon was filmed on Prospect Park West between 17th Street and 18th Street in Windsor Terrace.

Director Wayne Wang's sister movies Smoke and Blue in the Face were filmed at the former Post Office location at the corner of 16th Street and Prospect Park West in 1995, in conjunction with well-known local writer Paul Auster.

1997's As Good as It Gets shows Oscar-winners Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt walking through wonderful streetscapes of Prospect Park West and past the beautiful row houses that characterize the neighborhood.

Farrell's Bar & Grill, also at 16th Street & Prospect Park West, is an old and famous institution ( as seen in the film Pollock with Ed Harris ), and used as a standard bar backdrop in many other film sequences.

Scenes from Ragtime ( E. L. Doctorow ), Brighton Beach Memoirs ( Neil Simon ), Pete Hamill's The Gift and Denis Hamill's Turk 182 were all shot in Windsor Terrace.

The Darren Aronofsky movie π has several subway shots made in the 15th Street-Prospect Park station.

The opening scene in the Geena Davis movie Angie was also shot in Windsor Terrace, on Fuller Place ( one street up from Howard Place where Helen Hunt's character lived in As Good as It Gets ).

Alanis Morissette filmed the music video for " Hand In My Pocket " from her album Jagged Little Pill on Prospect Park West between Windsor Place and 16th Street during August 1995.

The Amazing Spider-Man ( 2012 ) also shot scenes on Fuller Place.