List of films set in New England

This is a list of films set in New England. Movies made for television are not included.

This list is incomplete. Please make an annotation describing something about the setting.

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1900s

The Scarlet Letter (1908)

1910s

The House of the Seven Gables (1910) - set in Salem, MA
The Scarlet Letter (1911)
The Scarlet Letter (1913)
The Scarlet Letter (1917)

1920s

The Scarlet Letter (1920)
The Scarlet Letter (1922)
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
The Yankee Clipper (1927)

1930s

Up the River (1930)
Strange Interlude (1932)
Chance at Heaven (1933)
Doctor Bull (1933)
Little Women (1933)
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
Ah, Wilderness! (1935) - set in New London, CT
Captains Courageous (1937)
Stella Dallas (1937)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) - they visit Susan's aunt in Connecticut

1940s

The House of the Seven Gables (1940) - set in Salem, MA
Northwest Passage (1940)
Our Town (1940) - set in New Hampshire
Buy Me That Town (1941) - set in Connecticut
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) - originally titled All That Money Can Buy
The Devil Commands (1941)
Holiday Inn (1942) - Connecticut
Talk of the Town (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Claudia and David (1946)
The Stranger (1946) - set in Connecticut
Boomerang (1947) - set in Connecticut
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
The Late George Apley (1947) - set in Boston, MA
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) - Connecticut
Summer Holiday (1948)
The Babe Ruth Story (1948) - Set in Boston, about the Red Sox and Braves
Come to the Stable (1949)
Little Women (1949) - set in Concord, MA

1950s

Mystery Street (1950) - Massachusetts
Death of a Salesman (1951)
Plymouth Adventure (1952) - the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, MA
The Actress (1953) - set in fictional Wallacestone, MA
White Christmas (1954) - set in Vermont
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Carousel (1956)
High Society (1956) - Newport, RI
Moby Dick (1956)
Fear Strikes Out (1957) - set in Boston, about the Red Sox
Johnny Tremain (1957) - set in Boston
Peyton Place (1957)
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
The Last Hurrah (1958) - a mayoral race based on Boston mayor James Michael Curley
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) - set in Connecticut
The Devil's Disciple (1959) - Websterbridge, NH
It Happened to Jane (1959)
The Man in the Net (1959)
A Summer Place (1959) - set in fictional Pine Island, ME

1960s

The Bramble Bush (1960)
The City of the Dead (1960)
Death of a Salesman (1961)
The Parent Trap (1961)
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Lolita (1962)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) - Connecticut
The Miracle Worker (1962)
The Cardinal (1963)
Donovan's Reef (1963)
The Haunted Palace (1963) - fictional New England town of Arkham
The Haunting (1963)
My Six Loves (1963)
Lilith (1964)
Never Too Late 1965)
Death of a Salesman (1966)
Hawaii (1966)
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966) - Gloucester, Massachusetts
Tormented (1966)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - set at Trinity College in Connecticut
The Shuttered Room (1967)
Valley of the Dolls (1967) - Anne starts in New England
The Boston Strangler (1968) - set in Boston
Charly (1968) - set in Boston
Death of a Salesman (1968)
Pretty Poison (1968) - set in western Massachusetts
Rachel, Rachel (1968) - Boston
Salesman (1968) - Boston
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) - set in Boston
The Curse of the Living Corpse (1969)
Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969)

1970s

Love Story (1970)
The Out-of-Towners (1970) - set in Boston
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
The Other (1972)
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) - set in Boston
The Last Detail (1973) - set in Boston
The Paper Chase (1973)
The Scarlet Letter (1973)
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974) - st in western Massachusetts
Jaws (1975) - set in fictional Amity, MA
The Stepford Wives (1975)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) - set in fictional Wells Harbor, ME
Between the Lines (1977) - set in Boston
Pete's Dragon (1977)
Coma (1978) - set in Boston
Jaws 2 (1978) - set in fictional Amity, MA
Brink's Job (1979) - set in Boston

1980s

The Children (1980)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
A Small Circle of Friends (1980)
Dead & Buried (1981)
The Incubus (1981) - fictional New England town of Galen
On Golden Pond (1981)
The Flight of Dragons (1982)
Superstition (1982)
The Verdict (1982)
The World According to Garp (1982)
The Bostonians (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
The Devonsville Terror (1983)
Reuben, Reuben (1983)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) - New Hampshire
Clue (1985) - set in a New England mansion
Death of a Salesman (1985)
Real Genius (1985) - fictional college similar to MIT in Cambridge, MA
Re-Animator (1985) - set in fictional Arkham, MA
The Sure Thing (1985)
Highlander (1986) - "the famous duel on Boston Common"
One Crazy Summer (1986)
Baby Boom (1987) - set in Vermont
Flowers in the Attic (1987) - Ipswich MA
The Devil's Disciple (1987) - Websterbridge, NH
The Witches of Eastwick (1987) - set in fictional Eastwick, RI
Beetlejuice (1988) - set in fictional Winter River, CT
Funny Farm (1988)
Mystic Pizza (1988) - set in Mystic, CT
The Nest (1988)
Second Sight (1989) - comedy set in Boston, MA
Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
Witchery (1988)
Dead Poets Society (1989) - set at a fictional academy in Vermont
Field of Dreams (1989) - they visit Fenway Park in Boston
Glory (1989) - the 54th Massachusetts Infantry form and train in Readville, now a suburb of Boston, and march through Boston
Pet Sematary (1989)
War of the Roses (1989)
Warlock (1989)

1990s

It (1990)
Mermaids (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) - set in New York City and rural New England
Once Around (1991) - Renata starts at her parents' place in New England
Other People's Money (1991)
Run (1991) - set in Boston
What About Bob? (1991) - set at Lake Winnipesaukee, NH
Far and Away (1992)
HouseSitter (1992)
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Mr. Baseball (1992) - Fenway Park
Scent of a Woman (1992) - set at a New England boarding school
School Ties (1992) - set at a fictional elite Massachusetts boarding school
Ethan Frome (1993)
The Firm (1993)
The Good Son (1993)
Hocus Pocus (1993) - Salem, MA
Malice (1993) - set in Boston
The Man Without a Face (1993)
Needful Things (1993)
Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)
Blown Away (1994) - set in Boston
Dumb & Dumber (1994) - their journey begins in Providence, RI
Federal Hill (1994) - set in Providence, RI
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) - set in the fictional town of Hobbs End, NH
The Inkwell (1994)
The Last Seduction (1994)
Little Women (1994) - set based on Louisa May Alcott's childhood home in Concord, MA
The Next Karate Kid (1994) - set in Brookline, MA
Quiz Show (1994) - partly set at Van Doren's parents' house in Connecticut
The Ref (1994) - set in Connecticut
The River Wild (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - set in Maine
With Honors (1994) - set at Harvard in Cambridge, MA
Wolf (1994)
Casper (1995)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Jumanji (1995)
Outbreak (1995) - the monkey's owner lands at Logan Airport, Boston, MA
The Scarlet Letter (1995)
Celtic Pride (1996) - set in Boston
The Crucible (1996) - Salem, MA
Death of a Salesman (1996)
Eden (1996)
Man with a Plan (1996)
Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Amistad (1997) - State House in Providence
Good Will Hunting (1997) - set in Boston and Cambridge, MA
The Ice Storm (1997) - set in New Canaan, CT
Lolita (1997)
The Matchmaker (1997) - Sean follows Marcy to Boston
The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
Skeletons (1997)
That Darn Cat (1997)
Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998)
A Civil Action (1998) - set in Woburn, MA
Monument Ave. (1998) - set in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston
Next Stop Wonderland (1998) - set in Boston
One True Thing (1998)
The Parent Trap (1998)
Practical Magic (1998)
Safe Men (1998) - set in Providence, RI
The Spanish Prisoner (1998)
Stranger in the Kingdom (1998)
There's Something About Mary (1998)
The Boondock Saints (1999) - set in Boston
The Cider House Rules (1999) - set in Maine
Girl, Interrupted (1999) - set in the Boston suburb of Belmont, MA
The Iron Giant (1999)
Lake Placid (1999) - set in Maine
Message in a Bottle (1999)
The Out-of-Towners (1999)
Outside Providence (1999) - set in Providence, RI
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) - Boston
A Wake in Providence (1999) - Providence, RI

2000s

Almost Famous (2000) - one of the stops is Boston
Death of a Salesman (2000)
Me, Myself and Irene (2000) - set in Rhode Island
The Perfect Storm (2000) - they sail from Gloucester, MA
The Skulls (2000) - Yale University in Connecticut
State and Main (2000)
The Weight of Water (2000) - set in New Hampshire
What Lies Beneath (2000) - set in Vermont
You Can Count on Me (2000) - early scene where he borrows money set in Worcester, MA
Blow (2001) - starts in George Jung's hometown of Weymouth, MA
The Blue Diner (2001) - set in Boston
Harvard Man (2001)
The Heist (2001) - a robbery at a small Boston airport
In the Bedroom (2001) - set in mid-coast Maine
Legally Blonde (2001) - Elle is a student at Harvard
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Summer Catch (2001) - Cape Cod, MA
Super Troopers (2001)
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001) - filmed (and presumably set) in Boston and elsewhere in MA
Cabin Fever (2002)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
The Gray Man (2002)
Mister Deeds (2002) - set in New Hampshire
The Skulls II (2002)
Alex & Emma (2003) - set in Boston
Anger Management (2003) - they drive to Boston to visit Buddy's mother
Behind the Red Door (2003) - set in Boston
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
The Human Stain (2003)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) - set at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA
Mystic River (2003) - set in Boston
The Recruit (2003) - James starts as a bartender in Boston
The Skulls III (2003)
X2 (2003) - they visit Iceman's parents' home in Boston
Irish Eyes (2004)
Saint Ralph (2004)
Spartan (2004)
The Stepford Wives (2004) - set in Connecticut
Still We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie (2004)
Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
The Family Stone (2005)
Fever Pitch (2005)
Ice Princess (2005) - Harvard in Cambridge, MA
War of the Worlds (2005) - Ray tries to flee to Boston to meet his ex-wife
The Departed (2006) - set in Boston
Islander (2006) - set in Vinalhaven, ME
The Legend of Lucy Keyes (2006)
Little Children (2006)
United 93 (2006)
Vacationland (2006)
Black Irish (2007)
Dan in Real Life (2007) - set in Rhode Island
Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007) - set in Boston
The Game Plan (2007)
Gone Baby Gone (2007) - set in Boston
The Great Debaters (2007) - they travel to debate at Harvard, in Cambridge, MA
21 (2008) - MIT and Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) - set in Boston
My Best Friend's Girl (2008) - set in Boston
The Women (2008) - Connecticut
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
Knowing (2009) - set in Lexington, MA
The Maiden Heist (2009)
Surrogates (2009)
Tell-Tale (2009)
The Vicious Kind (2009) - set in Norfolk, CT
The Way We Get By (2009)

2010s

All Good Things (2010) - set in Vermont and Connecticut
Conviction (2010) - based in Ayer, MA
Edge of Darkness (2010)
The Fighter (2010) - set in Lowell, MA
The Ghost Writer (2010) - set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Grown Ups (2010)
Knight and Day (2010) - the action passes through June's hometown of Boston
Leap Year (2010) - starts and ends in Boston
Shutter Island (2010) - set on an island outside Boston
The Social Network (2010) - set at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA
The Town (2010) - set in Charlestown and Cambridge, MA
Man on the Train - set somewhere in New England
Sucker Punch (2011) - set in Brattleboro, VT
Ted (2012) - set in Boston, MA
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) - set on the fictional New England island of New Penzance
The Heat (2013) - set in Boston, MA
The Way, Way Back (2013) - set in Wareham, Massachusetts
The Equalizer - set in Somerville, Massachusetts
Backgammon (2015) - set in Maine
Ted 2 (2015)
Irrational Man (2015) - set in the small-town New England college campus of Braylin
The Witch (2015 film) (2015).
The Finest Hours (2016) - set in Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

References

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