List of films set in New England

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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[]

1930s[]

1940s[]

1950s[]

1960s[]

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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)
  • (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)
  • (1997)
  • That Darn Cat (1997)
  • Affliction (1998)
  • (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)
  • (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

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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
  • Man on the Train – 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 Heat (2013) – set in Boston, Massachusetts
  • The Way, Way Back (2013) – set in Wareham, Massachusetts
  • The Equalizer – 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)
  • Black Mass (2015)
  • The Finest Hours (2016) – set in Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod
  • Manchester by the Sea (2016)
  • Patriots Day (2016)
  • Stronger (2017)
  • Summer of Mesa (2020) – set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • The Block Island Sound (2020)

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