1910s

• The House of the Seven Gables
  The House of the Seven Gables
  The House of the Seven Gables is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. The house is now a non-profit museum, with an admission fee charged for tours, as well as an active settlement house with programs for children...
  
   (1910) -- Set in Salem, MA
• The Scarlet Letter
  The Scarlet Letter (1911 film)
  The Scarlet Letter is a silent drama motion picture short starring King Baggot, Lucille Young, and William Robert Daly.Directed by Joseph W...
  
   (1911)
• The Scarlet Letter (1913)
• The Scarlet Letter (1917)

1920s

• The Scarlet Letter (1920)
• The Scarlet Letter
  The Scarlet Letter (1922 film)
  The Scarlet Letter is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Challis Sanderson and starring Sybil Thorndike, Tony Fraser and Dick Webb. It is an adaptation of the novel The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.-Cast:...
  
   (1922)
• The Scarlet Letter
  The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)
  The Scarlet Letter is a 1926 drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. Louis B. Mayer was reluctant on using Miss Gish, fearing opposition from church groups. The film was announced as "It's a real 'A' picture", taking advantage of the 'A' for Adultery, and proved a box office success...
  
   (1926)
• The Yankee Clipper
  The Yankee Clipper (1927 film)
  The Yankee Clipper is a 1927 American adventure film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Rupert Julian. It is set against the maritime rivalry between the United States and Great Britain in the mid-19th century.-Plot:...
  
   (1927)

1930s

• Up the River
  Up the River
  Up the River is a Pre-Code comedy film about escaped convicts, directed by John Ford and featuring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in their feature film debuts.-Plot:...
  
   (1930)
• Strange Interlude
  Strange Interlude
  Strange Interlude is an experimental play by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill finished the play in 1923, but it was not produced on Broadway until 1928, when it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lynn Fontanne originated the central role of Nina Leeds on Broadway...
  
   (1932)
• Chance at Heaven (1933)
• Doctor Bull
  Doctor Bull
  Doctor Bull is a comedy film directed by John Ford, based on the James Gould Cozzens novel The Last Adam. Will Rogers portrays a small town doctor who must deal with a typhoid outbreak in the community....
  
   (1933)
• Little Women
  Little Women
  Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869...
  
   (1933)
• The Scarlet Letter
  The Scarlet Letter (1934 film)
  The Scarlet Letter is a 1934 American film directed by Robert G. Vignola.It was shot in Salem's Pioneer Village and Sherman Oaks, California. This was the only film Colleen Moore ever said she made for the money. She was preparing to take her dollhouse on tour for charity, and saw the film as an...
  
   (1934)
• Ah, Wilderness!
  Ah, Wilderness! (film)
  Ah, Wilderness! is a 1935 screen adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play of the same name starring Wallace Beery. The movie was filmed in Grafton, Massachusetts and directed by Clarence Brown. Beery plays the drunken uncle later portrayed on Broadway by Jackie Gleason, and the film features Lionel...
  
   (1935) -- Set in New London, CT
• Captains Courageous
  Captains Courageous
  Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon...
  
   (1937)
• Stella Dallas
  Stella Dallas (1937 film)
  Stella Dallas is a 1937 film based on the Olive Higgins Prouty novel of the same name. It was directed by King Vidor, and stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, and Anne Shirley. Stanwyck was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Shirley for Best Actress in a Supporting Role...
  
   (1937)
• Bringing Up Baby
  Bringing up Baby
  Bringing Up Baby is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures....
  
   (1938) -- They visit Susan's aunt in Connecticut
  Connecticut
  Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
  
  

1940s

• Northwest Passage
  Northwest Passage
  The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...
  
   (1940)
• Our Town (1940) -- Set in New Hampshire
  New Hampshire
  New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...
  
  
• The House of the Seven Gables
  The House of the Seven Gables
  The House of the Seven Gables is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. The house is now a non-profit museum, with an admission fee charged for tours, as well as an active settlement house with programs for children...
  
   (1940) -- Set in Salem, MA
• Buy Me That Town (1941) -- Set in Connecticut
• The Devil and Daniel Webster
  The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941 film)
  The Devil and Daniel Webster is a 1941 fantasy film, adapted by Stephen Vincent Benét and Dan Totheroh from Benét's short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster". The film's title was changed to All That Money Can Buy to avoid confusion with another film released by RKO that year, The Devil and Miss...
  
   (1941) -- Original title: "All That Money Can Buy"
• The Devil Commands
  The Devil Commands
  The Devil Commands is a 1941 horror film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Boris Karloff. The working title of the film was The Devil Said No. In it, a man obsessed with contacting his dead wife falls in with a sinister phony medium. The Devil Commands is one of the many films from the...
  
   (1941)
• Holiday Inn
  Holiday Inn
  Holiday Inn is a brand of hotels, formally a economy motel chain, forming part of the British InterContinental Hotels Group . It is one of the world's largest hotel chains with 238,440 bedrooms and 1,301 hotels globally. There are currently 5 hotels in the pipeline...
  
   (1942) -- Connecticut
• Talk of the Town (1942)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
  Yankee Doodle Dandy
  Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway". It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf, and features Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney.The movie was written by...
  
   (1942)
• Christmas in Connecticut
  Christmas in Connecticut
  Christmas in Connecticut is a 1945 American Christmas film and romantic comedy directed by Peter Godfrey, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, and Sydney Greenstreet.-Plot:...
  
   (1945)
• Claudia and David
  Claudia and David
  Claudia and David is a 1946 film directed by Walter Lang. It stars Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young.-Cast:*Dorothy McGuire as Claudia Naughton*Robert Young as David Naughton*Mary Astor as Elizabeth Van Doren*John Sutton as Phil Dexter...
  
   (1946)
• The Stranger
  The Stranger (1946 film)
  The Stranger is an American film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. The film was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by Victor Trivas. Sam Spiegel was the film's producer, and the film's musical score is by Bronisław Kaper...
  
   (1946) -- Set in Connecticut
• Boomerang
  Boomerang (1947 film)
  Boomerang! is a 1947 film based on the true story of a vagrant who was accused of murder, only to be found innocent through the efforts of the prosecutor...
  
   (1947) -- Set in Connecticut
• Gentleman's Agreement
  Gentleman's Agreement
  Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film about a journalist who goes undercover as a Jew to conduct research for an exposé on antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut...
  
   (1947)
• Mourning Becomes Electra
  Mourning Becomes Electra
  Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing in March 1932...
  
   (1947)
• The Late George Apley
  The Late George Apley
  The Late George Apley is a 1937 novel by John Phillips Marquand. It is a satire of Boston's upper class. The title character is a Harvard-educated WASP living on Beacon Hill in downtown Boston....
  
   (1947) -- Set in Boston
  Boston
  Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
  
  , MA
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
  Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
  Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1948 American comedy film directed by H.C. Potter and starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. The film was written and produced by the team of Melvin Frank and Norman Panama...
  
   (1948) -- Connecticut
• Summer Holiday
  Summer Holiday (1948 film)
  Summer Holiday is a 1948 American musical film, starring Mickey Rooney and Gloria DeHaven. It is based on the play Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill, which had been filmed as Ah, Wilderness! by MGM in 1935.-Cast:...
  
   (1948)
• Come to the Stable
  Come to the Stable
  Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...
  
   (1949)
• Little Women
  Little Women
  Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869...
  
   (1949)

1950s

• Mystery Street
  Mystery Street
  Mystery Street is a black-and-white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by famed lensman John Alton. The film stars Ricardo Montalban, Bruce Bennett, and Elsa Lanchester....
  
   (1950) -- Massachusetts
• Death of a Salesman
  Death of a Salesman (1951 film)
  Death of a Salesman is a 1951 film adapted from the play of the same name by Arthur Miller. It was directed by László Benedek and written for the screen by Stanley Roberts. It received numerous nominations for awards, and won several of them, including four Golden Globe Awards and the Volpi Cup...
  
   (1951)
• Plymouth Adventure
  Plymouth Adventure
  Plymouth Adventure is a 1952 drama film with an ensemble cast starring Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson and Leo Genn, made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown, and produced by Dore Schary...
  
   (1952) -- The pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, MA
• The Actress
  The Actress
  The Actress is an 1953 American comedy-drama film based on Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play Years Ago. Gordon herself wrote the screenplay. The film was directed by George Cukor and stars Jean Simmons, Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, and Anthony Perkins in his film debut.The film was nominated for...
  
   (1953) -- Set in fictional Wallacestone, MA
• White Christmas
  White Christmas (film)
  White Christmas is a 1954 Technicolor musical film starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye that features the songs of Irving Berlin, including the titular "White Christmas"...
  
   (1954) -- Set in Vermont
  Vermont
  Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
  
  
• All That Heaven Allows
  All That Heaven Allows
  All That Heaven Allows is a romance feature film starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about a well-to-do widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love. The screenplay was written by Peg Fenwick based upon a story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee...
  
   (1955)
• Daddy Long Legs
  Daddy Long Legs (film)
  Daddy Long Legs is a Hollywood musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of "Walston" in Massachusetts. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco, and stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Fred Clark, and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny...
  
   (1955)
• The Trouble with Harry
  The Trouble with Harry
  The Trouble With Harry is a 1955 American black comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the novel of the same name by Jack Trevor Story. It was released in the United States on October 3, 1955 then rereleased once the distribution rights were acquired by Universal Pictures in 1984...
  
   (1955)
• Carousel
  Carousel (film)
  Carousel is a 1956 film adaptation of the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the same name which, in turn, was based on Ferenc Molnár's non-musical play Liliom. The 1956 Carousel film stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, and was directed by Henry King...
  
   (1956)
• High Society (1956) -- Newport, RI
• Moby Dick (1956)
• Fear Strikes Out
  Fear Strikes Out
  Fear Strikes Out is a dramatic film depicting the life and career of American baseball player Jimmy Piersall. It is based on Piersall's autobiography Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story. The film stars Anthony Perkins as Piersall and Karl Malden as his father, and it was directed by Robert...
  
   (1957) -- Set in Boston, about the Red Sox
• Peyton Place
  Peyton Place (film)
  Peyton Place is a 1957 American drama film directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the bestselling 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious.-Plot:...
  
   (1957)
• Desire Under the Elms
  Desire Under the Elms (film)
  Desire Under the Elms is a 1958 American film version of the 1924 play Desire Under the Elms written by Eugene O'Neill. The film was directed by Delbert Mann from a screenplay by O'Neill and Irwin Shaw. The cast included Sophia Loren as Abbie , Anthony Perkins as Eben, Burl Ives as Ephraim, Frank...
  
   (1958)
• Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
  Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
  Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Max Shulman, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and released by 20th Century Fox...
  
   (1958) -- Set in Connecticut
• The Last Hurrah
  The Last Hurrah
  The Last Hurrah is a 1956 novel written by Edwin O'Connor. It is considered the most popular of O’Connor's works, partly because of a significant 1958 movie adaptation starring Spencer Tracy. The novel was immediately a bestseller in the United States for 20 weeks, and was also on lists for...
  
   (1958) -- A mayoral race based on Boston mayor James Michael Curley
  James Michael Curley
  James Michael Curley was an American politician famous for his four terms as mayor of Boston, Massachusetts. He also served twice in the United States House of Representatives and one term as 53rd Governor of Massachusetts.-Early life:Curley's father, Michael Curley, left Oughterard, County...
  
  
• A Summer Place
  A Summer Place
  A Summer Place is a 1958 novel by Sloan Wilson, a follow-on to The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. It was adapted into a 1959 film of the same name.-Plot summary:...
  
   (1959) -- Set in fictional Pine Island, ME
• It Happened to Jane
  It Happened to Jane
  It Happened to Jane is a 1959 romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, and Ernie Kovacs directed by Richard Quine and written by Norman Katkov and Max Wilk.The film was co-produced by Quine and star Day's husband at the time, Martin Melcher....
  
   (1959)
• The Devil's Disciple
  The Devil's Disciple
  The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright...
  
   (1959) -- Websterbridge, NH
• The Man in the Net
  The Man in the Net
  The Man in the Net is an American film noir starring Alan Ladd and Carolyn Jones. The taut drama was directed by Michael Curtiz.-Plot:...
  
   (1959)

1960s

• The Bramble Bush
  The Bramble Bush
  The Bramble Bush is a 1960 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Richard Burton, Angie Dickinson and Jack Carson....
  
   (1960)
• The City of the Dead (1960)
• Death of a Salesman (1961)
• Return to Peyton Place
  Return to Peyton Place
  Return to Peyton Place is a 1959 novel by Grace Metalious, a sequel to her best-selling 1956 novel Peyton Place.-Plot summary:After the phenomenal success of her first novel, Metalious hastily penned a sequel centering on the life and loves of bestselling author Allison MacKenzie, who ironically...
  
   (1961)
• The Parent Trap (1961)
• Lolita
  Lolita (1962 film)
  Lolita is a 1962 comedy-drama film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze and Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze with Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty.Due to the MPAA's restrictions at...
  
   (1962)
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
  Long Day's Journey into Night (1962 film)
  Long Day's Journey into Night is a 1962 film adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Ely Landau with Joseph E. Levine and Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr. as executive producers. The screenplay was by Eugene O'Neill, the music score by André Previn and the...
  
   (1962) -- Connecticut
• The Miracle Worker (film) (1962)
• My Six Loves
  My Six Loves
  My Six Loves is a 1963 comedy film starring Debbie Reynolds as a Broadway star who takes a vacation and finds herself responsible for six abandoned children, in Gower Champion's directorial debut...
  
   (1963)
• Donovan's Reef
  Donovan's Reef
  Donovan's Reef is a 1963 American film starring John Wayne. It was directed John Ford and filmed on location on Kauai, Hawaii.The cast included Elizabeth Allen, Lee Marvin, Dorothy Lamour, and Cesar Romero. The film marked the last time Ford and Wayne ever worked together on a...
  
   (1963)
• The Cardinal
  The Cardinal
  The Cardinal is a 1963 film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....
  
   (1963)
• The Haunted Palace
  The Haunted Palace
  The Haunted Palace is a 1963 horror film released by American International Pictures, starring Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr., and Debra Paget in a story about a village held in the grip of a cult. The film was directed by Roger Corman, and is usually listed as one in his series of eight films...
  
   (1963) -- Fictional New England town of Arkham
• The Haunting
  The Haunting (1963 film)
  The Haunting is a 1963 British psychological horror film by American director Robert Wise and adapted by Nelson Gidding from the novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. It stars Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn. The film centers around the conflict between...
  
   (1963)
• Lilith
  Lilith (film)
  Lilith is a film written and directed by Robert Rossen. It is based on a novel by J. R. Salamanca and stars Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter and Gene Hackman...
  
   (1964)
• Death of a Salesman (1966)
• Hawaii (1966 film) (1966)
• The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
  The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
  The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is an American comedy film. Based on the Nathaniel Benchley novel The Off-Islanders, the film was directed by Norman Jewison and adapted for the screen by William Rose....
  
   (1966) -- Gloucester, Massachusetts
• Tormented
  Tormented (1960 film)
  For the 2009 film, see Tormented Tormented is a 1960 horror movie directed and produced by Bert I. Gordon for Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, and starring Richard Carlson....
  
   (1966)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is an adaptation of the play of the same title by Edward Albee...
  
   (1966) -- Set at Trinity College in Connecticut
• Valley of the Dolls
  Valley of the Dolls
  Valley of the Dolls is a novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann, published in 1966. The "dolls" within the title is a slang term for downers, barbiturates used as sleep aids....
  
   (1967) -- Anne starts in New England
• Charly
  Charly
  Charly is a 1968 American film directed by Ralph Nelson. The drama stars Cliff Robertson , Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney and Dick Van Patten and tells the story of a mentally retarded bakery worker who is the subject of an experiment to increase human intelligence...
  
   (1968) -- Set in Boston
• Death of a Salesman (1968)
• Pretty Poison
  Pretty Poison
  Pretty Poison is a Dance group based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Group members are Jade Starling ; Whey Cooler ; and Kaya Pryor .-History:...
  
   (1968) -- Set in western Massachusetts
• Rachel, Rachel
  Rachel, Rachel
  Rachel, Rachel is a 1968 American drama film produced and directed by Paul Newman. The screenplay by Stewart Stern is based on the 1966 novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence.-Plot:...
  
   (1968) -- Boston
• Salesman (1968) -- Boston
• The Boston Strangler
  The Boston Strangler (film)
  The Boston Strangler is a 1968 film based on the true story of the Boston Strangler and the book by Gerold Frank. It was directed by Richard Fleischer, and stars Tony Curtis as Albert DeSalvo, the strangler, and Henry Fonda as John S...
  
   (1968) -- Set in Boston
• The Thomas Crown Affair
  The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)
  The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 film by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. It was nominated for two Academy Awards and won the Award for Best Song with Michel Legrand's "Windmills of Your Mind"...
  
   (1968) -- Set in Boston
• Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969)
• The Curse of the Living Corpse
  The Curse of the Living Corpse
  The Curse of the Living Corpse is a 1964 low-budget American horror film, written, directed, and produced by Del Tenney. In the film, a series of murders haunt the family of a man who died leaving extensive instructions in his will to avoid his being buried alive. The film marked the feature film...
  
   (1969)

1970s

• Love Story
  Love Story (1970 film)
  Love Story is a 1970 romantic drama film written by Erich Segal and based on his novel Love Story. It was directed by Arthur Hiller. The film, well known as a tragedy, is considered one of the most romantic of all time by the American Film Institute , and was followed by a sequel, Oliver's Story...
  
   (1970)
• The Out-of-Towners
  The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)
  The Out-of-Towners is a 1970 comedy film written by Neil Simon, directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis. It was released by Paramount Pictures on May 28, 1970....
  
   (1970) -- Set in Boston
• Carnal Knowledge
  Carnal Knowledge (film)
  Carnal Knowledge is a 1971 American drama film. The film was directed by Mike Nichols and written by Jules Feiffer.-Plot:Sandy and Jonathan are roommates at Amherst College whose lives are explored and seem to offer a contrast to one another...
  
   (1971)
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death
  Let's Scare Jessica to Death
  Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a 1971 low budget American horror film, directed by John D. Hancock, and starring Zohra Lampert in the title role. The film focuses on a recently institutionalized woman who has various nightmarish experiences after moving to an old farmhouse on a Connecticut island...
  
   (1971)
• Slaughterhouse-Five
  Slaughterhouse-Five (film)
  Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 film based on Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill. It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and Perry King. The...
  
   (1972)
• The Other
  The Other
  The Other is a 1972 psychological horror film directed by Robert Mulligan, adapted for film by Tom Tryon, from his bestselling novel. It stars Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, and Chris & Martin Udvarnoky.-Plot:...
  
   (1972)
• The Paper Chase (1973)
• Friends of Edie Coyle (1973) -- Set in Boston
• The Last Detail
  The Last Detail
  The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby with a screenplay adapted by Robert Towne from a novel of the same name by Daryl Ponicsan. The film became known for its frequent use of profanity.-Plot:...
  
   (1973) -- Set in Boston
• The Scarlet Letter
  The Scarlet Letter (1973 film)
  The Scarlet Letter is a 1973 German film directed by Wim Wenders. It is an adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter.The film stars Senta Berger as Hester Prynne, Hans Christian Blech as Roger Chillingworth, and Lou Castel as Rev...
  
   (1973)
• Silent Night, Bloody Night
  Silent Night, Bloody Night
  Not to be confused with a more controversial and popular film called Silent Night, Deadly Night.Silent Night, Bloody Night is a low-budget 1974 psychological horror film directed by Theodore Gershuny. It stars Patrick O'Neal and cult actress Mary Woronov in leading roles, with John Carradine in a...
  
   (1974) -- Set in western Massachusetts
• Jaws
  Jaws (film)
  Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...
  
   (1975) -- Set in fictional Amity, MA
• The Stepford Wives
  The Stepford Wives (1975 film)
  The Stepford Wives is a 1975 science fiction–thriller film based on the 1972 Ira Levin novel of the same name. It was directed by Bryan Forbes with a screenplay by William Goldman, and stars Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman and Tina Louise...
  
   (1975)
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
  The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
  The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is a 1976 Canadian-French film directed by Nicolas Gessner and starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen. It was written by Laird Koenig, based on Koenig's 1974 novel of the same title; Koenig also wrote a stage play based on his book...
  
   (1976) -- Set in fictional Wells Harbor, ME
• Pete's Dragon
  Pete's Dragon
  Pete's Dragon is a 1977 live-action/animated musical film from Walt Disney Productions and the first Disney film to be recorded in the Dolby Stereo sound system...
  
   (1977)
• Between the Lines (1977) -- Set in Boston
• Jaws 2
  Jaws 2
  Jaws 2 is a 1978 thriller film and the first sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws , which is based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name...
  
   (1978) -- Set in fictional Amity, MA
• Coma
  Coma
  In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...
  
   (1978) -- Set in Boston
• Brink's Job (1979) -- Set in Boston
• Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) -- Set in New Hampshire

1980s

• Return of the Secaucus 7
  Return of the Secaucus 7
  Return of the Secaucus 7 is a drama film written and directed by John Sayles. It features Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre, Maggie Cousineau, Gordon Clapp, Jean Passanante, and others....
  
   (1980)
• The Children
  The Children (1980 film)
  The Children is a 1980 low budget horror film, written and produced by Carlton J. Albright. The movie is about five children in a small town who, thanks to a yellow toxic cloud, are transformed into bloodless zombies with black fingernails who microwave every living thing they put their hands on...
  
   (1980)
• The Incubus
  The Incubus
  The Incubus is a 1981 horror film directed by John Hough. Screenplay by George Franklin, based on the novel by Ray Russell. Starring John Cassavetes, Kerrie Keane, John Ireland, Helen Hughes, Erin Flannery, Duncan McIntosh...
  
   (1981) -- Fictional New England town of Galen
• Dead and Buried
  Dead & Buried
  Dead & Buried is a 1981 horror film directed by Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson and James Farentino. With a screenplay written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the movie was initially banned as a "Video Nasty" in the UK in the early 80s, but was later acquitted of obscenity charges and...
  
   (1981)
• On Golden Pond
  On Golden Pond (1981 film)
  On Golden Pond is a 1981 American drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his 1979 play of the same title. Henry Fonda won the Academy Award in what was his final film role. Co-star Katharine Hepburn also received an Oscar, as did Thompson for his...
  
   (1981)
• Superstition (1982)
• The Flight of Dragons
  The Flight of Dragons
  The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 animated movie produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and loosely combining the speculative natural history book of the same name by Peter Dickinson with the novel The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson. The film centres upon a quest undertaken to...
  
   (1982)
• The Verdict
  The Verdict
  The Verdict is a 1982 courtroom drama film which tells the story of a down-on-his-luck alcoholic lawyer who pushes a medical malpractice case in order to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that he is doing the right thing. Since the lawsuit involves a woman in a persistent...
  
   (1982)
• The World According to Garp
  The World According to Garp
  The World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for several years.A movie adaptation of the novel starring Robin Williams was released in 1982, with a screenplay written by Steve Tesich....
  
   (1982)
• Reuben, Reuben
  Reuben, Reuben
  Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 comedy drama film. It stars Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom, Cynthia Harris, and Joel Fabiani.The film was adapted by Julius J. Epstein from the play Spofford by Herman Shumlin, which in turn was adapted from the novel Reuben, Reuben by Peter De Vries. It was...
  
   (1983)
• The Dead Zone
  The Dead Zone (film)
  The Dead Zone is a 1983 horror-thriller film based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. Directed by David Cronenberg, the film stars Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, and Tom Skerritt...
  
   (1983)
• The Devonsville Terror
  The Devonsville Terror
  The Devonsville Terror is a 1983 film, directed by Ulli Lommel and starring Suzanna Love and Donald Pleasence.-Plot:Dr. Warley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated...
  
   (1983)
• The Bostonians
  The Bostonians
  The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin...
  
   (1983)
• Hotel New Hampshire (1984) -- New Hampshire
• Clue
  Clue (film)
  Clue is a 1985 comedy mystery film based on the board game of the same name . The film is a murder mystery set in a Gothic Revival mansion, and is styled after Murder by Death and other various murder/dinner parties of mystery...
  
   (1985) -- Set in a New England mansion
• Death of a Salesman
  Death of a Salesman (1985 film)
  Death of a Salesman is a 1985 CBS made for television film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, based on the 1949 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang and Charles Durning...
  
   (1985)
• Re-Animator (1985) -- set in fictional Arkham, MA
• Real Genius
  Real Genius
  Real Genius is a 1985 satirical comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge. The film's screenplay was written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft and Peter Torokvei. It stars Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret....
  
   (1985) -- Fictional college that's sort of Caltech or MIT in Cambridge, MA
• The Sure Thing
  The Sure Thing
  The Sure Thing is a 1985 romantic comedy directed by Rob Reiner, written by Steven L. Bloom and Jonathan Roberts and starring John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Viveca Lindfors, and Nicollette Sheridan...
  
   (1985)
• Highlander (film)
  Highlander (film)
  Highlander is a 1986 fantasy action film directed by Russell Mulcahy and based on a story by Gregory Widen. It stars Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and Roxanne Hart. The film depicts the climax of an ages-old battle between immortal warriors, depicted through interwoven past and...
  
   (1986) -- "The famous duel on Boston Common"
• One Crazy Summer
  One Crazy Summer
  -Production:Several locations on Cape Cod, Massachusetts were used for the film: Barnstable High School , Hyannis West Elementary School , the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard And Nantucket Steamship Authority ferry dock in Woods Hole, where the characters board the ferry, and the motorcycle gang...
  
   (1986)
• The Devil's Disciple
  The Devil's Disciple
  The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright...
  
   (1987) -- Websterbridge, NH
• Baby Boom
  Baby Boom (film)
  Baby Boom is a 1987 comedy film starring Diane Keaton. The film also launched a subsequent television show starring Kate Jackson, running from 1988 to 1989. The original music score was composed by Bill Conti and the cinematography was by William A. Fraker....
  
  : (1987) -- Set in Vermont
• The Witches of Eastwick
  The Witches of Eastwick (film)
  The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American horror comedy based on John Updike's novel of the same name. Directed by George Miller, the film stars Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne, alongside Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer as the eponymous witches...
  
   (1987) -- Set in fictional Eastwick, RI
• Beetlejuice
  Beetlejuice
  Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton, produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner Bros...
  
   (1988) -- Set in fictional Winter River, CT
• Funny Farm
  Funny Farm (film)
  Funny Farm is a 1988 film starring Chevy Chase and Madolyn Smith. The film was adapted from a 1985 comedic novel of the same name by Jay Cronley...
  
   (1988)
• Mystic Pizza
  Mystic Pizza
  Mystic Pizza is a 1988 American coming of age film directed by Donald Petrie and starring Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, and Lili Taylor.The title of the film was based on a pizza shop that caught the eye of Hollywood screen writer, Amy Holden Jones...
  
   (1988) -- Set in Mystic, CT
• Sweet Hearts Dance
  Sweet Hearts Dance
  Sweet Hearts Dance is a 1988 American comedy drama film directed by Robert Greenwald. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson centers on two small town couples, one married for several years and the other at the beginning of their relationship....
  
   (1988)
• The Nest
  The Nest (1988 film)
  The Nest is a creature feature horror film, based on the novel by Eli Cantor , from Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures and producer Julie Corman. The tagline is "Roaches have never tasted flesh... until now." Flesh-eating roaches terrorize a peaceful island community presented as a New England...
  
   (1988)
• Witchery (1988)
• Dead Poets Society
  Dead Poets Society
  Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Robin Williams. Set at the conservative and aristocratic Welton Academy in Vermont in 1959, it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.The script was written...
  
   (1989) -- Set at a fictional academy in Vermont
• Field of Dreams
  Field of Dreams
  Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and is from the novel Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella...
  
   (1989) -- They visit Fenway Park
  Fenway Park
  Fenway Park is a baseball park near Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912, and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use. It is one of two "classic"...
  
   in Boston
• Glory (1989) -- The troops march through Boston
• Pet Sematary
  Pet Sematary (film)
  Pet Sematary is a 1989 horror film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name. Directed by Mary Lambert and written by King, the film features Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, Denise Crosby as Rachel Creed, Blaze Berdahl as Ellie Creed, Miko Hughes as Gage Creed, and Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall...
  
   (1989)
• War of the Roses (1989)
• Warlock
  Warlock
  The term warlock in origin means "traitor, oathbreaker".In early modern Scots, the word came to be used as the male equivalent of witch ....
  
   (1989)

1990s

• It
  It (1990 film)
  It is a 1990 horror television miniseries based on the novel of the same name. The story revolves around an inter-dimensional predatory life-form that is simply referred to as "It", which has the ability to transform itself into its prey's worst fears allowing it to exploit the fears and phobias...
  
   (1990)
• Mermaids
  Mermaids (film)
  Mermaids is a 1990 comedy-drama film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder , and Christina Ricci in her first film role...
  
   (1990)
• Other People's Money
  Other People's Money
  Other People's Money is a 1991 drama/romantic comedy film starring Danny DeVito, Penelope Ann Miller and Gregory Peck. It is based on the play of the same name by Jerry Sterner. The director was Norman Jewison and the screenplay was credited to Alvin Sargent.-Plot:Corporate raider Lawrence...
  
   (1991)
• Once Around
  Once Around
  Once Around is a 1991 romantic comedy-drama film about a young woman who falls for and eventually marries an overbearing older man who proceeds to rub her close-knit family the wrong way...
  
   (1991) -- Renata starts at her parents in New England
• Run
  Run (1991 film)
  Run is a 1991 film, directed by Geoff Burrowes. The movie stars Patrick Dempsey and Kelly Preston.-Synopsis:Boston law student and part-time mechanic Charlie Farrow is asked by his boss to deliver a new Porsche from Boston to Atlantic City for a client...
  
   (1991) -- Set in Boston
• What About Bob?
  What About Bob?
  What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film directed by Frank Oz, and starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray plays Bob Wiley, a multiphobic psychiatric patient who follows his successful and egotistical psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin on vacation...
  
   (1991) -- Set at Lake Winnipesaukee
  Lake Winnipesaukee
  Lake Winnipesaukee is the largest lake in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. It is approximately long and from wide , covering — when Paugus Bay is included—with a maximum depth of ....
  
  , NH
• Far and Away
  Far and Away
  Far and Away is a 1992 adventure-drama-romance film directed by Ron Howard from a script by Howard and Bob Dolman, and stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cinematography by Mikael Salomon, with a music score by John Williams...
  
   (1992)
• HouseSitter
  HouseSitter
  HouseSitter is a 1992 romantic comedy film directed by Frank Oz, written by Mark Stein, and starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. The premise involves a woman with con-artist tendencies who worms her way into the life of a reserved architect by claiming to be his wife.-Plot:Newton Davis is a...
  
   (1992)
• Lorenzo's Oil
  Lorenzo's Oil
  Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 drama film directed by George Miller. It is based on a true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone, two parents in a relentless search for a cure for their son Lorenzo's adrenoleukodystrophy...
  
   (1992)
• Mr. Baseball
  Mr. Baseball
  Mr. Baseball is a 1992 American film that starred Tom Selleck and was directed by Fred Schepisi.-Plot:Jack Elliot is an aging American baseball player put on the trading block by the New York Yankees in favor of a rookie first-baseman , and there's only one taker: the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of...
  
   (1992) -- Fenway Park
• Ethan Frome
  Ethan Frome
  Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, United States...
  
   (1993)
• Hocus Pocus (1993)
• Malice
  Malice (film)
  Malice is a 1993 American thriller film directed by Harold Becker. The screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and Scott Frank is based on a story by Jonas McCord.-Plot:...
  
   (1993) -- Set in Boston
• Needful Things
  Needful Things
  Needful Things is a 1991 horror novel by American author Stephen King. According to the cover, it is "The Last Castle Rock Story." However, the town later served as the setting for the short story "It Grows on You," published in King's 1993 collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes which, according to...
  
   (1993)
• The Firm (1993)
• The Good Son (1993)
• The Man Without a Face
  The Man Without a Face
  The Man Without a Face is a 1993 drama film starring and directed by Mel Gibson. The film is based on Isabelle Holland's 1972 novel of the same name. Gibson's directorial debut received respectful reviews from most critics.-Plot:...
  
   (1993)
• Where the Rivers Flow North
  Where the Rivers Flow North
  Where the Rivers Flow North is a novel written in 1978 by Howard Frank Mosher.-Plot:Set in the late 1920s, its main characters Noel Lord and Bangor, a couple that live together in the wilderness of Vermont living off the land and using the trees in their numerous acreage as a way to make their money...
  
   (1993)
• Blown Away
  Blown Away (1994 film)
  Blown Away is a 1994 action film starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. It was directed by Stephen Hopkins.-Plot:Ryan Gaerity , an Irish terrorist, escapes from his cell in a castle prison in Northern Ireland....
  
   (1994) -- Set in Boston
• Dumb & Dumber
  Dumb & Dumber
  Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 picaresque or buddy comedy film starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. Written and directed by the Farrelly brothers, the film follows the cross-country trek of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, two good-natured but incredibly moronic friends...
  
   (1994) -- Their journey begins in Providence, RI
• Federal Hill (1994) -- Set in Providence, RI
• Little Women
  Little Women
  Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869...
  
   (1994)
• Quiz Show
  Quiz Show
  Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film produced and directed by Robert Redford. Adapted by Paul Attanasio from Richard Goodwin's memoir Remembering America, the film is based upon the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s...
  
   (1994) -- Partly set at Van Doren's parents house is in Connecticut
• The Inkwell
  The Inkwell
  The Inkwell is a 1994 romantic comedy/drama film, directed by Matty Rich. This movie stars Larenz Tate, Joe Morton, Suzzanne Douglass, Glynn Turman, and Vanessa Bell Calloway...
  
   (1994)
• The Last Seduction
  The Last Seduction
  The Last Seduction is a neo-noir 1994 film directed by John Dahl.The movie features Linda Fiorentino as the femme fatale, Peter Berg as a small town man whose one night affair turns into more than he wanted, and Bill Pullman as Fiorentino's husband who is chasing her and running from loan sharks at...
  
   (1994)
• The Ref
  The Ref
  The Ref is a 1994 American black comedy film directed by Ted Demme and starring Denis Leary, Judy Davis, and Kevin Spacey.-Plot:...
  
   (1994) -- Set in Connecticut
• The River Wild
  The River Wild
  The River Wild is a 1994 thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, John C. Reilly, and Joseph Mazzello...
  
   (1994)
• The Shawshank Redemption
  The Shawshank Redemption
  The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman....
  
   (1994)
• With Honors (1994) -- Set at Harvard in Cambridge, MA
• Wolf
  Wolf (film)
  Wolf is a 1994 American horror film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Jim Harrison, Wesley Strick, and an uncredited Elaine May, with music by Ennio Morricone and cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno....
  
   (1994)
• Casper
  Casper (film)
  Casper is a 1995 American comedy fantasy film starring Bill Pullman and Christina Ricci, based on the Casper the Friendly Ghost animated cartoons and comic books. The ghosts featured in the film were created through computer-generated imagery...
  
   (1995)
• Dolores Claiborne
  Dolores Claiborne (film)
  Dolores Claiborne is a 1995 film based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, starring Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It was directed by Taylor Hackford.-Plot:...
  
   (1995)
• Outbreak
  Outbreak (film)
  Outbreak is a 1995 American disaster film starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Spacey. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen. In addition, Outbreak features Cuba Gooding, Jr., Donald Sutherland, and Patrick Dempsey....
  
   (1995) -- The monkey's owner lands at Logan Airport, Boston, MA
• The Scarlet Letter
  The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)
  The Scarlet Letter is a 1995 American film adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name. It was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall. This version was "freely adapted" from Hawthorne and deviated from the original story. Universally panned by...
  
   (1995)
• Celtic Pride
  Celtic Pride
  Celtic Pride is a comedy film written by Judd Apatow and Colin Quinn and directed by Tom DeCerchio. It features Daniel Stern and Dan Aykroyd as Mike O'Hara and Jimmy Flaherty, two passionate Boston Celtics fans and Damon Wayans as Lewis Scott, the Utah Jazz's All-Star shooting guard.-Plot:Best...
  
   (1996) -- Set in Boston
• Death of a Salesman (1996)
• Eden (1996)
• Jumanji
  Jumanji (film)
  Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy-comedy film about a supernatural board game that makes wild animals and other jungle hazards materialize upon each player's move. It was directed by Joe Johnston and is based on Chris Van Allsburg's popular 1981 picture book of the same name...
  
   (1996)
• Man with a Plan
  Man with a Plan
  Man With A Plan was an independently produced docudrama released in 1996, starring dairy farmer and actor Fred Tuttle. Since its release, it has remained a local cult classic in Vermont.- External links :* *...
  
   (1996)
• Mrs. Winterbourne
  Mrs. Winterbourne
  Mrs. Winterbourne is a 1996 romantic comedy/drama starring Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, and Brendan Fraser. The film is loosely based on Cornell Woolrich's novel I Married a Dead Man, which has already been filmed in Hollywood as No Man of Her Own starring Barbara Stanwyck, and in Bollywood as...
  
   (1996)
• Skeletons
  Skeletons (film)
  Skeletons is a 2010 British film directed by Nick Whitfield, starring Ed Gaughan, Andrew Buckley, and Jason Issacs. It was nominated for 'Outstanding Debut by a British Director' at the 64th British Academy Film Awards. Skeletons was the winner of the "Best new British feature film" award at the...
  
   (1996)
• The Crucible (1996)
• The Spitfire Grill
  The Spitfire Grill
  The Spitfire Grill is a 1996 American motion picture that tells a story of a woman who was just released from prison and goes to work in a small-town café known as The Spitfire Grill. A central theme is redemption....
  
   (1996)
• Amistad (1997) -- State House in Providence
• Good Will Hunting
  Good Will Hunting
  Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, and Stellan Skarsgård...
  
   (1997) -- Set in Cambridge, MA
• Lolita
  Lolita (1997 film)
  Lolita is a 1997 French-American drama film directed by Adrian Lyne. It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel of the same name and stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert and Dominique Swain as Dolores "Lolita" Haze, with supporting roles by Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze,...
  
   (1997)
• That Darn Cat (1997)
• The Ice Storm
  The Ice Storm (film)
  The Ice Storm is a 1997 drama film directed by Ang Lee, based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Rick Moody.The film features an ensemble cast of Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, and Sigourney Weaver...
  
   (1997) -- Set in New Canaan, CT
• The Matchmaker
  The Matchmaker
  The Matchmaker is a play by Thornton Wilder.The play has a long and colorful history. John Oxenford's 1835 one-act farce A Day Well Spent had been extended into a full-length play entitled Einen Jux will er sich machen by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy in 1842...
  
   (1997) -- Sean follows Marcy to Boston
• The Myth of Fingerprints
  The Myth of Fingerprints
  The Myth of Fingerprints is a 1997 American drama written and directed by Bart Freundlich and stars his real-life wife Julianne Moore.The film is named after track 11, "All Around the World or the Myth of the Fingerprints" on Paul Simon's Graceland album, released in August 1986...
  
   (1997)
• A Civil Action
  A Civil Action
  A Civil Action is a 1998 American drama film starring John Travolta and Robert Duvall, based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Harr...
  
   (1998) -- Set in Woburn, MA
• Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998)
• Monument Ave.
  Monument Ave.
  Monument Ave., originally titled Snitch and titled Noose in Australia, is a 1998 American film directed by Ted Demme and starring Denis Leary. The film centers on the Charlestown, Massachusetts Irish Mob and small-time criminal Bobby O'Grady who is dealing with the problems that arise due to...
  
   (1998) -- Set in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston
• Next Stop Wonderland
  Next Stop Wonderland
  Next Stop Wonderland is a 1998 romantic comedy film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Anderson and Lyn Vaus. * This film was an audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998 and set off a bidding war among studio distributors, with Miramax Films paying $6 million for the $1 million...
  
   (1998) -- Set in Boston
• One True Thing
  One True Thing
  One True Thing is a 1998 American drama film directed by Carl Franklin. It tells the story of a woman who is forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother who is dying of cancer. It was adapted by Karen Croner from the novel by Anna Quindlen. The movie stars Meryl Streep, Renée...
  
   (1998)
• Practical Magic
  Practical Magic
  Practical Magic is a 1998 American fantasy film directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as witches who carry on a family legacy of witchcraft and tragedy. The film is based on a book of the same name by Alice Hoffman...
  
   (1998)
• Safe Men
  Safe Men
  Safe Men is a 1998 film written and directed by John Hamburg. The crime-comedy starred Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn as a pair of aspiring lounge singers who are mistaken for ace safe crackers and get mixed up with a Jewish mobster, Big Fat Bernie Gayle and Big Fat's intern, Veal Chop .Safe Men was...
  
   (1998) -- Set in Providence, RI
• Stranger in the Kingdom (1998)
• The Parent Trap
  The Parent Trap (1998 film)
  The Parent Trap is a remake of the 1961 family film of the same name. It was directed and co-written by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer. It stars Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson as a couple who divorce soon after marrying, and Lindsay Lohan in a dual role as their...
  
   (1998)
• There's Something About Mary
  There's Something About Mary
  There's Something About Mary is a 1998 American comedy film, directed by the Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter. It stars Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller, and it is a combination of romantic comedy and gross-out film....
  
   (1998)
• The Spanish Prisoner
  The Spanish Prisoner
  The Spanish Prisoner is a 1997 American suspense film, written and directed by David Mamet and starring Campbell Scott, Steve Martin, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ben Gazzara and Ricky Jay...
  
   (1998)
• A Wake in Providence (1999) -- Providence, RI
• Lake Placid
  Lake Placid (film)
  Lake Placid is a 1999 American monster movie with elements of comedy, horror, bromance film, and the buddy genre. It was written and produced by David E. Kelley, directed by Steve Miner, and stars Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin Bacon, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Oliver Platt, and...
  
   (1999) -- Set in Maine
  Maine
  Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
  
  
• The Thomas Crown Affair
  The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film)
  The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1999 American heist film directed by John McTiernan. The film, starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo and Denis Leary, is a remake of the 1968 film of the same name....
  
   (1999) -- Boston
• Message in a Bottle
  Message in a Bottle (film)
  Message in a Bottle is a 1999 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki. Based on a novel with the same name by Nicholas Sparks, the film stars Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, and Paul Newman...
  
   (1999)
• Outside Providence
  Outside Providence
  Outside Providence is an English language novel by writer, producer, and director Peter Farrelly, published in 1988.-Plot summary:Largely an autobiographical tale, the novel revolves around Timothy "Dildo" Dunphy, a ne'er-do-well from the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, which borders Providence...
  
   (1999) -- Set in Providence, RI
• The Boondock Saints
  The Boondock Saints
  The Boondock Saints is a 1999 American action comedy film written and directed by Troy Duffy. The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as Irish fraternal twins, Connor and Murphy MacManus, who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self-defense...
  
   (1999) -- Set in Boston
• The Cider House Rules
  The Cider House Rules (film)
  The Cider House Rules is a 1999 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on John Irving's novel of the same name. The film won two Academy Awards, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with four other nominations at the 72nd Academy Awards...
  
   (1999)
• The Iron Giant
  The Iron Giant
  The Iron Giant is a 1999 animated film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Brad Bird directed the film, which stars a voice cast of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney...
  
   (1999)
• The Out-of-Towners
  The Out-of-Towners (1999 film)
  The Out-of-Towners is a 1999 film starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. The movie is a remake of a 1970 film by the same name; the original version, written by Neil Simon, starred Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis.-As remake of 1970 film:...
  
   (1999)

2000s

• Almost Famous (2000) -- One of the stops is Boston
• Death of a Salesman
  Death of a Salesman (2000 film)
  Death of a Salesman is a 2000 television film directed by Kirk Browning, based on the 1949 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. The film stars American actor Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman ....
  
   (2000)
• Me, Myself and Irene
  Me, Myself and Irene
  Me, Myself & Irene is a 2000 American comedy film directed by the Farrelly Brothers, and starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger. Chris Cooper, Robert Forster, Richard Jenkins, Daniel Greene, Anthony Anderson, Jerod Mixon, and Mongo Brownlee co-star...
  
   (2000)
• State and Main
  State and Main
  State and Main is a 2000 comedy film, written and directed by David Mamet and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rebecca Pidgeon, about the on-location production in Waterford, Vermont of a film called The Old Mill...
  
   (2000)
• The Perfect Storm
  The Perfect Storm (film)
  The Perfect Storm is a 2000 dramatic disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It is an adaptation of the 1997 non-fiction book of the same title by Sebastian Junger about the crew of the Andrea Gail that got caught in the Perfect Storm of 1991. The film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg,...
  
   (2000) -- They sail from Gloucester, MA
• The Skulls (2000)
• The Weight of Water
  The Weight of Water
  The Weight of Water is a 1997 bestselling novel by Anita Shreve. Half of the novel is historical fiction that speculates about the true events of the Smuttynose Island murders of 1873.-Plot summary:...
  
   (2000) -- Set in New Hampshire
• What Lies Beneath
  What Lies Beneath
  What Lies Beneath is a 2000 American supernatural horror-thriller film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It stars veteran actors Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer as a well-to-do couple who experience a strange haunting that uncovers secrets about their past....
  
   (2000) -- Set in Vermont
• You Can Count of Me (2000) -- Early scene where he borrows money set in Worcester, MA
• Blow
  Blow (film)
  Blow is a 2001 biopic about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme. David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay. It is based on the real...
  
   (2001) -- Starts in George Jung's hometown of Weymouth, MA
• Cabin Fever (2001)
• Harvard Man
  Harvard Man
  Harvard Man is a 2001 feature film written and directed by James Toback. It had only a limited distribution in theatres in July 2002, and received little critical or popular acclaim, although it achieved some success when it was released on video and DVD in October of that year.The film stars...
  
   (2001)
• In the Bedroom
  In the Bedroom
  In the Bedroom is a 2001 American crime drama film directed by Todd Field, and dedicated to Andre Dubus, whose short story Killings is the source material on which the screenplay, by Field and Robert Festinger, is based...
  
   (2001) -- Set in mid-coast Maine
• Legally Blonde
  Legally Blonde
  Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and produced by Marc E. Platt...
  
   (2001) -- Elle is a student at Harvard
• Riding in Cars with Boys
  Riding in Cars with Boys
  Riding in Cars with Boys is a 2001 film based on the autobiography of the same name by Beverly Donofrio, about a woman who overcame difficulties including being a teen mother to earning a master's degree from the span of 1961 to 1986. It stars Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Brittany Murphy, and James...
  
   (2001)
• Summer Catch
  Summer Catch
  Summer Catch is a 2001 romantic comedy film starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel, and Matthew Lillard. The story takes place on Cape Cod, but the majority of the film was shot in Southport, North Carolina.-Plot:...
  
   (2001) -- Cape Cod
  Cape Cod
  Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...
  
  , MA
• Super Troopers
  Super Troopers
  Super Troopers is a 2001 crime-comedy film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, written by and starring the Broken Lizard comedy group . Marisa Coughlan, Daniel von Bargen and Brian Cox co-star while Lynda Carter has a cameo appearance...
  
   (2001)
• The Blue Diner
  The Blue Diner
  The Blue Diner is a 2001 comedy / romance film. It was directed and written by Jan Egleson. The producer Natatcha Estébanez also co-wrote and story and screenplay. Director Jan Egleson used excess film stock from the production of James Cameron's Titanic...
  
   (2001) -- Set in Boston
• The Heist
  Heist (film)
  Heist is a 2001 crime film, written and directed by David Mamet, which stars Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, and Sam Rockwell.-Plot:...
  
   (2001) -- A robbery at a small Boston airport
• The Weight of Water
  The Weight of Water (film)
  The Weight of Water is a 2000 film based on the novel of the same name by Anita Shreve. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the film stars Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley, Sarah Polley, Josh Lucas and Catherine McCormack...
  
   (2001)
• What's the Worst That Could Happen?
  What's the Worst That Could Happen?
  What's the Worst That Could Happen? is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Sam Weisman and starring Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito. Loosely based on the book of the same name by Donald Westlake, the film's supporting cast includes John Leguizamo, Bernie Mac, Larry Miller, Nora Dunn, GQ, and...
  
   (2001) -- Filmed (and presumably set) in Boston and elsewhere in MA
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a 2002 biographical spy film depicting the life of popular game show host and producer Chuck Barris, who claimed to have also been an assassin for the Central Intelligence Agency...
  
   (2002)
• Mister Deeds (2002)
• The Gray Man (2002)
• The Skulls II
  The Skulls II
  The Skulls II is the 2002 American thriller film sequel to The Skulls and was released direct-to-video. It is directed by Joe Chappelle and it stars Robin Dunne, Ashley Cafagna-Tesoro, Nathan West, Lindy Booth and James Gallenders....
  
   (2002)
• Alex & Emma (2003) -- Set in Boston
• Anger Management
  Anger Management
  Anger Management is a 2003 slapstick comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson, directed by Peter Segal and written by David S. Dorfman...
  
   (2003) -- They drive to Boston to visit Buddy's mother
• Behind the Red Door (2003) -- Set in Boston
• Dreamcatcher
  Dreamcatcher (film)
  Dreamcatcher is a 2003 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name. It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan, and co-written by Kasdan and screenwriter William Goldman...
  
   (2003)
• Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
• Mona Lisa Smile
  Mona Lisa Smile
  Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 romantic drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Julia Stiles...
  
   (2003)--Set at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass.
• Mystic River
  Mystic River (film)
  Mystic River is a 2003 American drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum. The film was written by Brian Helgeland, based on Dennis Lehane's novel of the same...
  
   (2003) -- Set in Boston
• The Human Stain
  The Human Stain (film)
  The Human Stain is a 2003 American romantic thriller film directed by Robert Benton. The screenplay by Nicholas Meyer is based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Philip Roth...
  
   (2003)
• The Recruit
  The Recruit
  The Recruit is a 2003 American spy thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Colin Farrell, Al Pacino and Bridget Moynahan. It was released on January 31, 2003 in North America by Touchstone Pictures....
  
   (2003) -- James starts as a bartender in Boston
• The Skulls III
  The Skulls III
  The Skulls III is an American teen thriller film, sequel to The Skulls and The Skulls II. It is directed by J. Miles Davis and stars Clare Kramer, Bryce Johnson, Steve Braun, and Barry Bostwick.-Cast:* Clare Kramer: Taylor Brooks...
  
   (2003)
• X2
  X2 (film)
  X2 is a 2003 superhero film based on the fictional characters the X-Men. Directed by Bryan Singer, it is the second film in the X-Men film series...
  
   (2003) -- They visit Iceman's parents' home in Boston
• Irish Eyes
  Irish Eyes
  Irish Eyes is the fifth of the Nuala Anne McGrail series of mystery novels by Roman Catholic priest and author Father Andrew M. Greeley....
  
   (2004)
• Saint Ralph
  Saint Ralph
  Saint Ralph is a 2004 Canadian drama film written and directed by Michael McGowan. Its central character is a teenaged boy who trains for the 1954 Boston Marathon in the hope a victory will be the miracle his mother needs to awaken from a coma....
  
   (2004)
• Spartan
  Spartan (film)
  Spartan is a 2004 American political thriller film written and directed by David Mamet. It features Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, Tia Texada, Ed O'Neill, William H. Macy, and Kristen Bell. It was released in The United States and Canada on 12 March 2004....
  
   (2004)
• Still We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie
  Still We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie
  Still We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie is a 2004 documentary/sport film documenting the Boston Red Sox' 2003 season and the team's relationship with its fans....
  
   (2004)
• The Stepford Wives
  The Stepford Wives (2004 film)
  The Stepford Wives is a 2004 American science fiction film. The film is a remake of the 1975 film of the same name; both films are based on the Ira Levin novel The Stepford Wives...
  
   (2004)
• Welcome to Mooseport
  Welcome to Mooseport
  Welcome to Mooseport is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and starring Ray Romano and Gene Hackman in his final film before retiring from acting...
  
   (2004)
• Fever Pitch
  Fever Pitch (2005 film)
  Fever Pitch, which was released as The Perfect Catch outside of the United States and Canada, is a 2005 Farrelly brothers romantic comedy film. It is a remake of a 1997 British film of the same name. Both films are loosely based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name, a best-selling memoir in...
  
   (2005)
• Ice Princess (2005) -- Harvard in Cambridge, MA
• The Family Stone
  The Family Stone
  The Family Stone is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. Produced by Michael London and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it stars an ensemble cast, including Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson, Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Claire Danes, Rachel...
  
   (2005)
• War of the Worlds
  War of the Worlds (2005 film)
  War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction film adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp. It is one of three film adaptations of War of the Worlds released that year, alongside The Asylum's version and...
  
   (2005) -- Ray tries to flee to Boston to meet his ex-wife
• Islander (2006) -- Set in Vinalhaven, ME
• Little Children
  Little Children (film)
  Little Children is a 2006 American drama film directed by Todd Field. It is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta, who along with Field wrote the screenplay. It stars Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman, Phyllis Somerville...
  
   (2006)
• The Departed
  The Departed
  The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film, fashioned as a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan...
  
   (2006) -- Set in Boston
• The Legend of Lucy Keyes
  The Legend of Lucy Keyes
  The Legend of Lucy Keyes is a 2006 Suspense Mystery film directed and written by John Stimpson, and starring Julie Delpy, Justin Theroux and Brooke Adams.-Summary:...
  
   (2006)
• United 93 (2006)
• Vacationland
  Vacationland (film)
  Vacationland is an independent gay-themed coming-of-age film by director Todd Verow starring Brad Hallowell as Joe and Gregory J. Lucas as Andrew, two highschool youth who have a crush on each other, but have difficulties to reconcile with their own sexuality in a small town...
  
   (2006)
• Black Irish
  Black Irish
  Black Irish is an ambiguous term used mainly outside of Ireland. Over the course of history, it has been subject to several distinctive ascriptions, including religious affiliation and poverty. Modern traditionalists, however, maintain the term to be synonymous with a dark-haired phenotype...
  
   (2007)
• Dan in Real Life
  Dan in Real Life
  Dan in Real Life is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Hedges, starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche.-Plot:Dan Burns is a newspaper advice columnist, a widower, and a controlling father to his children Jane, Cara and Lilly in the New Jersey suburbs. His column is in...
  
   (2007) -- Set in Rhode Island
• Everybody Wants to Be Italian
  Everybody Wants to be Italian
  Everybody Wants to Be Italian is a 2008 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Jason Todd Ipson. The screenplay focuses on the relationship between a blue collar worker and a veterinarian....
  
   (2007) -- Set in Boston
• Gone Baby Gone
  Gone Baby Gone
  Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 American crime drama-mystery film directed by Ben Affleck and starring his brother Casey Affleck. The screenplay by Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard is based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island...
  
   (2007) -- Set in Boston
• The Game Plan
  The Game Plan (film)
  The Game Plan is a 2007 family comedy film directed by Andy Fickman and starring The Rock. This is the last film in which Johnson uses his ring name "The Rock." This is also the last Disney film to be distributed by Buena Vista, due to Disney semi-retiring the name in May 2007, making all other...
  
   (2007)
• The Great Debaters
  The Great Debaters
  The Great Debaters is a 2007 American biopic period drama film directed by and starring two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and produced by Oprah Winfrey and her production company, Harpo Productions...
  
   (2007) -- They travel to Harvard to debate in Cambridge, MA
• 21
  21 (2008 film)
  21 is a 2008 drama film directed by Australian director Robert Luketic and stars Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, and Aaron Yoo. The film is inspired by the true story of the MIT Blackjack Team as told in Bringing Down the House, the...
  
   (2008) -- MIT and Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA
• The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) -- Set in Boston
• The Women
  The Women (2008 film)
  The Women is a 2008 American comedy film written, produced and directed by Diane English. The screenplay is an updated version of the George Cukor-directed 1939 film of the same name based on a 1936 play by Clare Boothe Luce....
  
   (2008) -- Connecticut
• Knowing (film)
  Knowing (film)
  Knowing is a 2009 American-British science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage. The project was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists. Production was financially...
  
   (2009) -- Set in Lexington, MA
• Surrogates (2009)
• Tell-Tale
  Tell-tale
  A tell-tale or telltale is an indicator, signal, or sign that conveys the status of a situation, mechanism, or system.-Automotive:...
  
   (2009)
• The Maiden Heist (2009)
• The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
  The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
  The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is the 2009 sequel to 1999's The Boondock Saints. Written and directed by original Boondock Saints creator Troy Duffy, the film stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus, who return to their roles, as well as several of the other actors from the first...
  
   (2009)
• The Way We Get By
  The Way We Get By
  The Way We Get By is a 2009 documentary film directed by Aron Gaudet and produced by Gita Pullapilly, about a group of senior citizens in Bangor, Maine who greet U.S. troops at the Bangor International Airport. The Way We Get By had its world premiere at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival,...
  
   (2009)

2010s

• Edge of Darkness (2010)
• Charlie St. Cloud (2010) -- Marblehead, Massachusetts
  Marblehead, Massachusetts
  Marblehead is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 19,808 at the 2010 census. It is home to the Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary and Devereux Beach...
  
  
• Grown Ups (2010)
• Conviction (2010) -- Based in Ayer, MA
• Knight and Day (2010) -- The action passes through June's hometown of Boston
• Leap Year
  Leap Year (2010 film)
  Leap Year is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Anand Tucker. The film, which is largely set in Ireland and stars Amy Adams and Matthew Goode, premiered in New York City on January 6, 2010.-Plot:...
  
   (2010) -- Starts and ends in Boston
• Shutter Island (film) (2010) -- Set in Boston
• The Ghost Writer (2010 film) (2010) -- Set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
• The Town (2010 film)
  The Town (2010 film)
  The Town is a 2010 crime film starring, co-written, and directed by Ben Affleck adapted from Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves. The film opened in theaters in the United States on September 17, 2010 at number one with more than $23 million and positive reviews...
  
   (2010) -- Set in Charlestown and Cambridge, MA
• The Fighter (2010 film) (2010) -- Set in Lowell, MA
• Sucker Punch (2011 film) (2011) -- Set in Brattleboro, VT