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

  • 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)
  • 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
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) - final showdown 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)
  • CODA (2021 film) (2021) - set in Gloucester, Massachusetts
  • 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

References

  • New England in Feature Films
  • IMDb