List of films set in New England explained

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.

1910s

• The House of the Seven Gables (1910) – set in Salem, Massachusetts
• The Scarlet Letter (1911)

1920s

• The Sea Beast (1926)
• The Scarlet Letter (1926)
• The Yankee Clipper (1927)

1930s

• Abraham Lincoln (1930)
• Moby Dick (1930)
• A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
• Horse Feathers (1932)
• Doctor Bull (1933)
• Little Women (1933) – set in Concord, Massachusetts
• The Pursuit of Happiness (1934)
• The Scarlet Letter (1934)
• Ah, Wilderness! (1935) - set in an unnamed New England town, filmed in Grafton, Massachusetts
• Way Down East (1935)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
• Captains Courageous (1937)
• Maid of Salem (1937)
• Nothing Sacred (1937)
• Stella Dallas (1937)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938) – they visit Susan's aunt in Connecticut
• Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)
• Dark Victory (1939)
• The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

1940s

• The House of the Seven Gables (1940) – set in Salem, Massachusetts
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
• The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
• Holiday Inn (1942) – Connecticut
• The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
• I Married a Witch (1942)
• The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
• The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
• Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
• Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
• Spellbound (1945)
• The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
• Dragonwyck (1946)
• The Spiral Staircase (1946)
• The Stranger (1946)
• The Strange Woman (1946)
• Boomerang (1947)
• Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) – Connecticut
• The Babe Ruth Story (1948) – Set in Boston, about the Red Sox and Braves
• Little Women (1949) – set in Concord, Massachusetts
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)

1950s

• Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
• Mystery Street (1950) – Massachusetts
• The Underworld Story (1950)
• All About Eve (1950)
• Death of a Salesman (1951)
• The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
• Plymouth Adventure (1952) – the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts
• The Actress (1953) – set in Wollaston, Massachusetts (a neighborhood of the city of Quincy)
  • White Christmas (1954) – set in Vermont Seven Angry Men (1955)
• All That Heaven Allows (1955)
• Lady and the Tramp (1955)
• The Trouble with Harry (1955)
• Carousel (1956)
• High Society (1956) – Newport, Rhode Island
• Moby Dick (1956)
• Fear Strikes Out (1957) – set in Boston, about the Red Sox
• Johnny Tremain (1957) – set in Boston
• 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, New Hampshire
• A Summer Place (1959) – set in fictional Pine Island, Maine

1960s

• The Bramble Bush (1960)
• The City of the Dead (1960)
• House of Usher (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) – set in western Massachusetts
• Jaws (1975) – set in fictional Amity, Massachusetts
• The Stepford Wives (1975)
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) – set in fictional Wells Harbor, Maine
• Between the Lines (1977) – set in Boston
• Pete's Dragon (1977)
• Coma (1978) – set in Boston
• Jaws 2 (1978) – set in fictional Amity, Massachusetts
• The 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, Massachusetts
• Re-Animator (1985) – set in fictional Arkham, Massachusetts
• 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, Rhode Island
• Beetlejuice (1988) – set in fictional Winter River, Connecticut
• Funny Farm (1988)
• Mystic Pizza (1988) – set in Mystic, Connecticut
• The Nest (1988)
• Second Sight (1989) – comedy set in Boston, Massachusetts
• 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

• Jacob's Ladder (1990) - Set in New York City
• It (1990)
• Mermaids (1990) – set in the fictional town of Eastport, Massachusetts
• 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, Massachusetts
• What About Bob? (1991) – set at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
• The Babe (1992) – set in Boston, Massachusetts
• Far and Away (1992)
• HouseSitter (1992)
• Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
• Mr. Baseball (1992) – set at 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) – set in Salem, Massachusetts
• Malice (1993) – set in Boston, Massachusetts
• The Man Without a Face (1993)
• Needful Things (1993)
• Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)
• Blown Away (1994) – set in Boston, Massachusetts
• Dumb & Dumber (1994) – their journey begins in Providence, Rhode Island
• Federal Hill (1994) – set in Providence, Rhode Island
• In the Mouth of Madness (1994) – set in the fictional town of Hobbs End, New Hampshire
• The Inkwell (1994)
• The Last Seduction (1994)
• Little Women (1994) – set based on Louisa May Alcott's childhood home in Concord, Massachusetts
• The Next Karate Kid (1994) – set in Brookline, Massachusetts
• 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, Massachusetts
• Wolf (1994)
• Casper (1995) – set in Friendship, Maine
• Dolores Claiborne (1995)
• Jumanji (1995) – set in the fictional town of Brantford, New Hampshire
• Outbreak (1995) – the monkey's owner lands at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts
• The Scarlet Letter (1995)
• Celtic Pride (1996) – set in Boston, Massachusetts
• The Crucible (1996) – Salem, Massachusetts
• 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, Massachusetts
• The Ice Storm (1997) – set in New Canaan, Connecticut
• Lolita (1997)
• The Matchmaker (1997) – Sean follows Marcy to Boston, Massachusetts
• The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
• Skeletons (1997)
• That Darn Cat (1997)
• Affliction (1998)
• Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998)
• A Civil Action (1998) – set in Woburn, Massachusetts
• Monument Ave. (1998) – set in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston
• Next Stop Wonderland (1998) – set in Boston, Massachusetts
• One True Thing (1998)
• The Parent Trap (1998)
• Practical Magic (1998)
• Safe Men (1998) – set in Providence, Rhode Island
• The Spanish Prisoner (1998)
• Stranger in the Kingdom (1998)
• There's Something About Mary (1998)
• The Boondock Saints (1999) – set in Boston, Massachusetts
• The Cider House Rules (1999) – set in Maine
• Girl, Interrupted (1999) – set in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts
• 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, Rhode Island
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) – Boston, Massachusetts
• A Wake in Providence (1999) – Providence, Rhode Island
• The Love Letter (1999)

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, Massachusetts
• 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, Massachusetts
• Blow (2001) – starts in George Jung's hometown of Weymouth, Massachusetts
• 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, Massachusetts
• 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)
• Men in Black II (2002) - Agent J visits former Agent K in Truro, Massachusetts
• Mister Deeds (2002) – set in New Hampshire
• The Gray Man (2002)
• 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)
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• The Human Stain (2003)
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• Mona Lisa Smile (2003) – set at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts
• 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
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• Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
• The Family Stone (2005)
• Fever Pitch (2005)
• Ice Princess (2005) – Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• War of the Worlds (2005) – Ray tries to flee to Boston to meet his ex-wife
• Live Free or Die (2006 film) (2006)
• The Departed (2006) – set in Boston
• Islander (2006) – set in Vinalhaven, Maine
• 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, Massachusetts
• 21 (2008) – MIT and Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) – set in Boston
• My Best Friend's Girl (2008) – set in Boston
• The Women (2008) – Connecticut
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• Knowing (2009) – set in Lexington, Massachusetts
• The Maiden Heist (2009)
• Surrogates (2009)
• Tell-Tale (2009)
• The Vicious Kind (2009) – set in Norfolk, Connecticut
• The Way We Get By (2009)

2010s

• All Good Things (2010) – set in Vermont and Connecticut
• Conviction (2010) – based in Ayer, Massachusetts
• Edge of Darkness (2010)
• The Fighter (2010) – set in Lowell, Massachusetts
• 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, Massachusetts
• The Town (2010) – set in Charlestown and Cambridge, Massachusetts
• The Innkeepers (2011) – set at the Yankee Pedlar Inn in Torrington, Connecticut
• Man on the Train (2011) – set somewhere in New England
• Sucker Punch (2011) – set in Brattleboro, Vermont
• Ted (2012) – set in Boston, Massachusetts
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012) – set on the fictional New England island of New Penzance
• The Conjuring (2013) – set in Harrisville, Rhode Island
• The Heat (2013) – set in Boston, Massachusetts
• The Way, Way Back (2013) – set in Wareham, Massachusetts
• The Equalizer (2014) – 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
• In the Heart of the Sea (2015) – set in Nantucket
• The Witch (2015)
• Spotlight (2015)
• Joy (2015)
• Black Mass (2015)
• The Finest Hours (2016) – set in Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod
• Manchester by the Sea (2016) – set in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
• Patriots Day (2016)
• Stronger (2017)
• The Equalizer 2 (2018)
• Proud Mary (2018) - set in Boston
• Knives Out (2019) – set in Massachusetts
• The Lighthouse (2019) – set in 1890s New England
• Blow the Man Down (2019) – set in Maine

2020s

• Ava (2020)
• Summer of Mesa (2020) – set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
• The Block Island Sound (2020)
• Hubie Halloween (2020)
• Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) - Set in Salem, Massachusetts
• The Holdovers (2023) - Set in Massachusetts
• The Sudbury Devil (2023) - Set in Sudbury, Massachusetts
• Thanksgiving (2023 film) (2023) - Set in Plymouth, Massachusetts

References

• New England in Feature Films

External links

• IMDb