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
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
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
- 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
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