List of films set in New England

1910s

• The House of the Seven Gables – set in Salem, Massachusetts
• The Scarlet Letter

  1920s

• The Sea Beast
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Yankee Clipper

  1930s

• Abraham Lincoln
• Moby Dick
• A Connecticut Yankee
• Horse Feathers
• Doctor Bull
• Little Women – set in Concord, Massachusetts
• The Pursuit of Happiness
• The Scarlet Letter
• Way Down East
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Captains Courageous
• Maid of Salem
• Nothing Sacred
• Stella Dallas
• Bringing Up Baby – they visit Susan's aunt in Connecticut
• Mother Carey's Chickens
• Dark Victory
• The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

  1940s

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

  1950s

• Cheaper by the Dozen
• Mystery Street – Massachusetts
• The Underworld Story
• All About Eve
• Death of a Salesman
• The Story of Will Rogers
• Plymouth Adventure – the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts
• The Actress – set in Wollaston, Massachusetts
• White Christmas – set in Vermont
• Seven Angry Men
• All That Heaven Allows
• Lady and the Tramp
• The Trouble with Harry
• Carousel
• High Society – Newport, Rhode Island
• Moby Dick
• Fear Strikes Out – set in Boston, about the Red Sox
• Johnny Tremain – set in Boston
• The Last Hurrah – a mayoral race based on Boston mayor James Michael Curley
• Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! – set in Connecticut
• The Devil's Disciple – Websterbridge, New Hampshire
• A Summer Place – set in fictional Pine Island, Maine

  1960s

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

  1970s

• Love Story
• The Out-of-Towners – set in Boston
• Carnal Knowledge
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death
• The Other
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle – set in Boston
• The Last Detail – set in Boston
• The Paper Chase
• The Scarlet Letter
• Silent Night, Bloody Night – set in western Massachusetts
• Jaws – set in fictional Amity, Massachusetts
• The Stepford Wives
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane – set in fictional Wells Harbor, Maine
• Between the Lines – set in Boston
• Pete's Dragon
• Coma – set in Boston
• Jaws 2 – set in fictional Amity, Massachusetts
• Brink's Job – set in Boston

  1980s

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

  1990s

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

  2000s

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

  2010s

• All Good Things – set in Vermont and Connecticut
• Conviction – based in Ayer, Massachusetts
• Edge of Darkness
• The Fighter – set in Lowell, Massachusetts
• The Ghost Writer – set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
• Grown Ups
• Knight and Day – the action passes through June's hometown of Boston
• Leap Year – starts and ends in Boston
• Shutter Island – set on an island outside Boston
• The Social Network – set at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• The Town – set in Charlestown and Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Man on the Train – set somewhere in New England
• Sucker Punch – set in Brattleboro, Vermont
• Ted – set in Boston, Massachusetts
• Moonrise Kingdom – set on the fictional New England island of New Penzance
• The Heat – set in Boston, Massachusetts
• The Way, Way Back – set in Wareham, Massachusetts
• The Equalizer – set in Somerville, Massachusetts
• Backgammon – set in Maine
• Ted 2
• Irrational Man – set in the small-town New England college campus of Braylin
• In the Heart of the Sea – set in Nantucket
• The Witch.
• Spotlight.
• Black Mass.
• The Finest Hours – set in Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod
• Manchester by the Sea
• Patriots Day
• Stronger