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.

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

• Northwest Passage (1940)
• Our Town (1940) -- Set in New Hampshire
• The House of the Seven Gables (1940) -- Set in Salem, MA
• Buy Me That Town (1941) -- Set in Connecticut
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) -- Original title: "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)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
• The Late George Apley (1947) -- Set in Boston, MA
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) -- Connecticut
• Summer Holiday (1948)
• Come to the Stable (1949)
• Little Women (1949)

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)
• 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
• Peyton Place (1957)
• Desire Under the Elms (1958)
• Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) -- Set in Connecticut
• The Last Hurrah (1958) -- A mayoral race based on Boston mayor James Michael Curley
• A Summer Place (1959) -- Set in fictional Pine Island, ME
• It Happened to Jane (1959)
• The Devil's Disciple (1959) -- Websterbridge, NH
• The Man in the Net (1959)

1960s

• The Bramble Bush (1960)
• The City of the Dead (1960)
• Death of a Salesman (1961)
• Return to Peyton Place (1961)
• The Parent Trap (1961)
• Lolita (1962)
• Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) -- Connecticut
• The Miracle Worker (film) (1962)
• My Six Loves (1963)
• Donovan's Reef (1963)
• The Cardinal (1963)
• The Haunted Palace (1963) -- Fictional New England town of Arkham
• The Haunting (1963)
• Lilith (1964)
• Death of a Salesman (1966)
• Hawaii (1966 film) (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
• Valley of the Dolls (1967) -- Anne starts in New England
• 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 Boston Strangler (1968) -- Set in Boston
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) -- Set in Boston
• Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969)
• The Curse of the Living Corpse (1969)

1970s

• Love Story (1970)
• The Out-of-Towners (1970) -- Set in Boston
• Carnal Knowledge (1971)
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
• The Other (1972)
• The Paper Chase (1973)
• Friends of Edie Coyle (1973) -- Set in Boston
• The Last Detail (1973) -- Set in Boston
• The Scarlet Letter (1973)
• Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974) -- Set 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
• Pete's Dragon (1977)
• Between the Lines (1977) -- Set in Boston
• Jaws 2 (1978) -- Set in fictional Amity, MA
• Coma (1978) -- Set in Boston
• Brink's Job (1979) -- Set in Boston
• Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) -- Set in New Hampshire

1980s

• Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
• A Small Circle of Friends (1980)
• The Children (1980)
• The Incubus (1981) -- Fictional New England town of Galen
• Dead and Buried (1981)
• On Golden Pond (1981)
• Superstition (1982)
• The Flight of Dragons (1982)
• The Verdict (1982)
• The World According to Garp (1982)
• Reuben, Reuben (1983)
• The Dead Zone (1983)
• The Devonsville Terror (1983)
• The Bostonians (1983)
• Hotel New Hampshire (1984) -- New Hampshire
• Clue (1985) -- Set in a New England mansion
• Death of a Salesman (1985)
• Re-Animator (1985) -- set in fictional Arkham, MA
• Real Genius (1985) -- Fictional college that's sort of Caltech or MIT in Cambridge, MA
• The Sure Thing (1985)
• Highlander (film) (1986) -- "The famous duel on Boston Common"
• One Crazy Summer (1986)
• The Devil's Disciple (1987) -- Websterbridge, NH
• Baby Boom: (1987) -- Set in Vermont
• 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
• Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
• The Nest (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 troops march through Boston
• Pet Sematary (1989)
• War of the Roses (1989)
• Warlock (1989)

1990s

• It (1990)
• Mermaids (1990)
• Other People's Money (1991)
• Once Around (1991) -- Renata starts at her parents in New England
• 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
• Ethan Frome (1993)
• Hocus Pocus (1993)
• Malice (1993) -- Set in Boston
• Needful Things (1993)
• The Firm (1993)
• The Good Son (1993)
• The Man Without a Face (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
• Little Women (1994)
• Quiz Show (1994) -- Partly set at Van Doren's parents house is in Connecticut
• The Inkwell (1994)
• The Last Seduction (1994)
• The Ref (1994) -- Set in Connecticut
• The River Wild (1994)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• With Honors (1994) -- Set at Harvard in Cambridge, MA
• Wolf (1994)
• Casper (1995)
• Dolores Claiborne (1995)
• Outbreak (1995) -- The monkey's owner lands at Logan Airport, Boston, MA
• The Scarlet Letter (1995)
• Celtic Pride (1996) -- Set in Boston
• Death of a Salesman (1996)
• Eden (1996)
• Jumanji (1996)
• Man with a Plan (1996)
• Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
• Skeletons (1996)
• The Crucible (1996)
• The Spitfire Grill (1996)
• Amistad (1997) -- State House in Providence
• Good Will Hunting (1997) -- Set in Cambridge, MA
• Lolita (1997)
• That Darn Cat (1997)
• The Ice Storm (1997) -- Set in New Canaan, CT
• The Matchmaker (1997) -- Sean follows Marcy to Boston
• The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
• A Civil Action (1998) -- Set in Woburn, MA
• Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998)
• Monument Ave. (1998) -- Set in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston
• Next Stop Wonderland (1998) -- Set in Boston
• One True Thing (1998)
• Practical Magic (1998)
• Safe Men (1998) -- Set in Providence, RI
• Stranger in the Kingdom (1998)
• The Parent Trap (1998)
• There's Something About Mary (1998)
• The Spanish Prisoner (1998)
• A Wake in Providence (1999) -- Providence, RI
• Lake Placid (1999) -- Set in Maine
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) -- Boston
• Message in a Bottle (1999)
• Outside Providence (1999) -- Set in Providence, RI
• The Boondock Saints (1999) -- Set in Boston
• The Cider House Rules (1999)
• The Iron Giant (1999)
• The Out-of-Towners (1999)

2000s

• Almost Famous (2000) -- One of the stops is Boston
• Death of a Salesman (2000)
• Me, Myself and Irene (2000)
• State and Main (2000)
• The Perfect Storm (2000) -- They sail from Gloucester, MA
• The Skulls (2000)
• The Weight of Water (2000) -- Set in New Hampshire
• What Lies Beneath (2000) -- Set in Vermont
• You Can Count of Me (2000) -- Early scene where he borrows money set in Worcester, MA
• Blow (2001) -- Starts in George Jung's hometown of Weymouth, MA
• Cabin Fever (2001)
• Harvard Man (2001)
• 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)
• The Blue Diner (2001) -- Set in Boston
• The Heist (2001) -- A robbery at a small Boston airport
• The Weight of Water (2001)
• What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001) -- Filmed (and presumably set) in Boston and elsewhere in MA
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
• Mister Deeds (2002)
• 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)
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
• Mona Lisa Smile (2003)--Set at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass.
• Mystic River (2003) -- Set in Boston
• The Human Stain (2003)
• 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)
• Still We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie (2004)
• The Stepford Wives (2004)
• Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
• Fever Pitch (2005)
• Ice Princess (2005) -- Harvard in Cambridge, MA
• The Family Stone (2005)
• War of the Worlds (2005) -- Ray tries to flee to Boston to meet his ex-wife
• Islander (2006) -- Set in Vinalhaven, ME
• Little Children (2006)
• The Departed (2006) -- Set in Boston
• The Legend of Lucy Keyes (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
• Gone Baby Gone (2007) -- Set in Boston
• The Game Plan (2007)
• The Great Debaters (2007) -- They travel to Harvard to debate 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
• Knowing (film) (2009) -- Set in Lexington, MA
• Surrogates (2009)
• Tell-Tale (2009)
• The Maiden Heist (2009)
• The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
• The Way We Get By (2009)

2010s

• Edge of Darkness (2010)
• Charlie St. Cloud (2010) -- Marblehead, Massachusetts
• Grown Ups (2010)
• Conviction (2010) -- Based in Ayer, MA
• Knight and Day (2010) -- The action passes through June's hometown of Boston
• Leap Year (2010) -- Starts and ends in Boston
• Shutter Island (film) (2010) -- Set in Boston
• The Ghost Writer (2010 film) (2010) -- Set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
• The Town (2010 film) (2010) -- Set in Charlestown and Cambridge, MA
• The Fighter (2010 film) (2010) -- Set in Lowell, MA
• Sucker Punch (2011 film) (2011) -- Set in Brattleboro, VT

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References

• IMDb
• New England in Feature Films