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 Carrie (1976) – set in fictional Chamberlain, 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) Urban Legend (film) (1998) - set in New Hampshire 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 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)