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The Verdict
Massachusetts The 1980sThe doctors want to settle, the Church wants to settle, their lawyers want to settle, and even his own clients are desperate to settle. But Galvin is determined to defy them all. He will try the case. — Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
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Hanky Panky
Massachusetts The 1980sWhen you're wanted for a murder you didn't commit, chased for secrets you didn't steal, and running from people who want to kill you, the worst mistake you can make is falling in love... — The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
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Pieces
Massachusetts The 1980s The 1940sIt's exactly what you think it is! — A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
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Miracle on Ice
Massachusetts The 1970s The 1980sHockey coach Herb Brooks leads Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig and team to a gold medal in the 1980 Olympics.
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The House by the Cemetery
Massachusetts The 1980sRead the fine print. You may have just mortgaged your life. — After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his research and moves his family from New York City to the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.
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The Last Chase
Massachusetts The 2010sThe oil finally ran out... and somewhere in the future, the chase has begun. — Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
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Happy Birthday to Me
MassachusettsIt'll be a killer party! — Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on...
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Night School
MassachusettsA is for Apple B is for Bed C is for Co-ed D is for Dead F is for Failing to keep your Head! — A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.
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Dirty Tricks
MassachusettsEveryone here is crazy...everyone else is cracking up...in the hilarious comedy that casts off in total insanity! — A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop).
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Altered States
Massachusetts The 1970sWhen he heard his cry for help it wasn't human — A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
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A Small Circle of Friends
Massachusetts The 1960sThe story of three people and the era that shaped them. — In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica (Karen Allen), Leo (Brad Davis) and Nick (Jameson Parker) grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by romantic feelings both men develop for Jessica.
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Starting Over
MassachusettsHe wants to straighten out his life.... one way or another — After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
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The Promise
MassachusettsTHE PROMISE... to love each other forever but the next time he won't even know who she is. — A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Massachusetts The 17th CenturyIn 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film tells the adventurous journey of the Pilgrims to an unknown land and future.
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Jaws 2
MassachusettsJust when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... — Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
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Coma
MassachusettsImagine your life hangs by a thread. Imagine your body hangs by a wire. Imagine you're not imagining. — A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
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The Brink's Job
Massachusetts The 1950sThe robbery nobody thought could happen by the guys nobody thought could pull it off. — In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino (Peter Falk), a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis (Peter Boyle), who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...
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The Time Machine
Massachusetts The 1970s The 1850s The 1870s The 17th CenturyA scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
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Between the Lines
Massachusetts The 1970sFun, Adventure, Romance on $75 a Week — The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.
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The Last Hurrah
MassachusettsThe longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.
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The Gumball Rally
MassachusettsIt's a hilarious coast-to-coast, 180 mile-an-hour, go-for-broke, outrageous road race with the world's most expensive cars. And it's all just for glory and a gumball machine. — A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.
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Jaws
Massachusetts The 1970sDon't go in the water — When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.
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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
MassachusettsSuppose you knew who you had been in your previous life. Where you had lived...whom you had loved and how you had died. What then? — When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.
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The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Massachusetts The 1890sCould this woman commit the crime of the century? — A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
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Our Time
Massachusetts The 1950sDrama about students at a girls' school, their boyfriends, and an unexpected pregnancy.
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Harrad Summer
Massachusetts«First The Harrad Experiment* and then they were ready for a... Harrad Summer ...are you?» — Stanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth, four students from the 'free sex' Harrad College, spend the summer together to meet their families.
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The Harrad Experiment
MassachusettsHarrad College... where free, liberated relations between coed students are encouraged! — At fictional Harrad College students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1962 book of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this movie deals with the concept of free love during the height of the sexual revolution which took place in the United States.
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The Paper Chase
Massachusetts The 1970sYou may be looking at a future President, Supreme Court Justice, Secretary of State or a dropout. — A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
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The Last Detail
MassachusettsNo *#@!!* Navy’s going to give some poor **!!@* kid eight years in the #@!* brig without me taking him out for the time of his *#@!!* life. — Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
MassachusettsIt’s a grubby, violent, dangerous world. But it’s the only world they know. And they’re the only friends Eddie has. — An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.
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The Scarlet Letter
MassachusettsIn 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and searching out the identity of her lover. His eye soon rests on Dimmesdale, a young overwrought pastor. Enmity grows between the two men; Chillingworth applies psychological pressure, and the pastor begins to crack. A ship stops in Salem, and Hester sees it as a providential refuge for her daughter, herself, and her lover. But will Dimmesdale flee with her?
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In this sex farce, two middle-aged pairs of aspiring swingers rent a summer cottage. There they sit around discussing the pros and cons of having affairs.
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Fuzz
MassachusettsHere comes the fuzz — Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
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Silent Night, Bloody Night
Massachusetts The 1970s The 1950sThe mansion… the madness… the maniac… no escape. — On Christmas Eve 1950, Wilfred Butler dies in a burning accident outside his mansion in East Willard, Massachusetts. The residence is bequeathed to his grandson, Jeffrey. Twenty years later, lawyer John Carter arrives in East Willard on Christmas Eve with his assistant and mistress Ingrid, having been charged by Jeffrey (now registered as a patient in a mental asylum) to sell the house. The house, the town, even Jeffrey himself-- all hold dark secrets that will be brought to light.
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The Carey Treatment
MassachusettsPeter Carey M.D.: arrives from the coast - finds hypocrisy in a big Boston hospital - and a brilliant surgeon accused of abortion that turns to murder. — Dr. Peter Carey is a pathologist at a Boston hospital. The daughter of the hospital's Chief of Staff dies after an illegal abortion goes wrong, and Carey's friend and colleague Dr. David Tao is accused of performing the abortion. Carey doesn't buy it, and so he digs deeper, angering the girl's father in the process. Questions abound: Who performed the abortion? Was the girl really pregnant? And what does it have to do with stolen morphine, blackmail attempts, and a mysterious and dangerous masseur?
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Peter and Susan. Harvard and Berkeley. Rock and grass. And then suddenly stake-outs and the "mob" and bullets. Real bullets! — A Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Boston to Berkeley, California.
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Carnal Knowledge
Massachusetts The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sIts time has come. — The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
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Summer of '42
Massachusetts The 1940sIn everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42" — Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II.
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Sacco & Vanzetti
Massachusetts The 1920sBoston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchic political convictions.
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Love Story
MassachusettsLove means never having to say you're sorry. — Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.
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The Out-of-Towners
MassachusettsWhen they take you for an out-of-towner, they really take you. — George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
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The Dunwich Horror
MassachusettsA few years ago in Dunwich a half-witted girl bore illegitimate twins. One of them was almost human! — Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.
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House of Dark Shadows
MassachusettsCome see how the vampires do it — The story of vampire Barnabas Collins, the possible cure offered him by Dr. Julia Hoffman, and his search for love amidst the horror.
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
MassachusettsJunie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an epileptic, and Warren, who is gay and uses a wheelchair. The unlikely trio of outcasts decides to move in together and manages to enjoy a series of adventures as they endure various forms of prejudice and struggle with their own issues.
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Alice's Restaurant
Massachusetts The 1960sEvery Generation Has A Story To Tell. — After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump, but finds it closed for the holiday, so he just dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested, and sends him on a bizarre journey that ends with him in front of the draft board.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
MassachusettsIntroducing an exciting new company that brings a much needed lift to the field of crime. — Young businessman, Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
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The Boston Strangler
Massachusetts The 1960sWhy did 13 women willingly open their doors to the Boston Strangler? — Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
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Charly
MassachusettsA love story that begins with an incredible experiment! — An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to his was right.
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The Mouse on the Mayflower
Massachusetts The 17th CenturyA story of the first Thanksgiving... — The famous ship called Mayflower is trapped amidst a huge storm. The entire story is narrated by a church-mouse called Willum, from his viewpoint. The tale begins with the pilgrim preachers deciding to move to America and getting aboard the Mayflower. However, because of the huge storm, the ship gets on the verge of sinking. Then, Willum, the pilgrim mouse, comes up with an idea to save the ship. When the pilgrims land safely, they write the Mayflower Compact and start constructing their new church and colony. However, it is already the autumn season and they do not have much food stored for the winter. The pilgrims then learn to plant crops during the spring season and celebrate a big feast toward the onset of the autumn season or fall. This is their first Thanksgiving celebration.
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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Massachusetts The 1840sTo restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly characters, and a lucky punch that leads to a bonanza of belly laughs!
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