Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn

The Novel That Shocked The World Is Now A Movie

Directed by Uli Edel

Produced by Bavaria Film, Allied Filmmakers

1989103 min6.4 / 10

A bleak, character-driven portrait of 1950s Brooklyn where social constraints and personal shame crush ordinary people caught between desire and societal expectation.

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.

Questions people ask

  • Is Last Exit to Brooklyn sad? Yes, very. More sad than 98% of films.

  • Does Last Exit to Brooklyn end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 91% of films.

  • Is Last Exit to Brooklyn easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is Last Exit to Brooklyn violent? Somewhat. More violent than 68% of films.

  • Is Last Exit to Brooklyn scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 61% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

44/ 100

Cinnamon Score

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Rarity54

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise38

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love40

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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