# 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.

## 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)
* 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)
* 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) – set in Rhode Island
* 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) – set in Plymouth, Massachusetts