List of films set in New England

1900s

The Scarlet Letter (1908)

1910s

The House of the Seven Gables (1910) - set in Salem, Massachusetts

The Scarlet Letter (1911)

The Scarlet Letter (1913)

The Scarlet Letter (1917)

1920s

The Scarlet Letter (1920)

The Scarlet Letter (1922)

The Scarlet Letter (1926)

The Yankee Clipper (1927)

1930s

Up the River (1930)

Strange Interlude (1932)

Chance at Heaven (1933)

Doctor Bull (1933)

Little Women (1933)

The Scarlet Letter (1934)

Ah, Wilderness! (1935) - set in New London, Connecticut

Captains Courageous (1937)

Stella Dallas (1937)

Bringing Up Baby (1938) - they visit Susan's aunt in Connecticut

1940s

The House of the Seven Gables (1940) - set in Salem, Massachusetts

Northwest Passage (1940)

Our Town (1940) - set in New Hampshire

Buy Me That Town (1941) - set in Connecticut

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) - originally titled All That Money Can Buy

The Devil Commands (1941)

Holiday Inn (1942) - Connecticut

Talk of the Town (1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Claudia and David (1946)

The Stranger (1946) - set in Connecticut

Boomerang (1947) - set in Connecticut

Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

The Late George Apley (1947) - set in Boston, Massachusetts

Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) - Connecticut

Summer Holiday (1948)

The Babe Ruth Story (1948) - Set in Boston, about the Red Sox and Braves

Come to the Stable (1949)

Little Women (1949) - set in Concord, Massachusetts

1950s

Mystery Street (1950) - Massachusetts

Death of a Salesman (1951)

Plymouth Adventure (1952) - the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts

The Actress (1953) - set in fictional Wallacestone, Massachusetts

White Christmas (1954) - set in Vermont

All That Heaven Allows (1955)

Daddy Long Legs (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

Peyton Place (1957)

Desire Under the Elms (1958)

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

It Happened to Jane (1959)

The Man in the Net (1959)

A Summer Place (1959) - set in fictional Pine Island, Maine

1960s

The Bramble Bush (1960)

The City of the Dead (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

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)

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

What About Bob? (1991) - set at Lake Winnipesaukee, NH

Far and Away (1992)

HouseSitter (1992)

Lorenzo's Oil (1992)

Mr. Baseball (1992) - 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) - Salem, Massachusetts

Malice (1993) - set in Boston

The Man Without a Face (1993)

Needful Things (1993)

Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)

Blown Away (1994) - set in Boston

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, NH

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)

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

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

The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)

Skeletons (1997)

That Darn Cat (1997)

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

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

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

A Wake in Providence (1999) - Providence, Rhode Island

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)

The Gray Man (2002)

Mister Deeds (2002) - set in New Hampshire

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

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

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 film) (2015).

Spotlight (film) (2015).

The Finest Hours (2016) - set in Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod

Manchester by the Sea (2016)