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.

This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)

1910s

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

1920s

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

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)
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, 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
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, 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
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
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

References

New England in Feature Films

External links

IMDb

This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)