112 Films & TV Shows Set In Maine
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Signs of Life
MaineThe closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.
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Creepshow 2
Maine ArizonaWhen the curtain goes up, the terror begins. — EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life...to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. In the second, four teens are stranded on a raft on a lake with a blob that is hungry. And in the third, a hit and run woman is terrorized by the hitchhiker she accidentally killed...or did she really kill him?
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A Return to Salem's Lot
MaineJoe Weber is an anthropologist who takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot unaware that it is populated by vampires. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they ask Joe to write a bible for them.
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The Whales of August
Maine The 1950sThe Screen's Immortals... A movie you'll never forget. — Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
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Children of a Lesser God
MaineLove has a language all of its own. — James, a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf, falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs.
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Silver Bullet
Maine The 1970sIt started in May. In a small town. And every month after that whenever the moon was full... it came back. — The small city of Tarker's Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears that this is the work of a maniac. During a search a mysterious, hairy creature is observed. This strange appearance is noticed once a month. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside, he's preparing the barbecue.
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Poison Ivy
MaineTwo teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humorous situations and romantic encounters.
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Cujo
MaineNow there's a new name for terror... — A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
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The Dead Zone
MaineIn his mind, he has the power to see the future. In his hands, he has the power to change it. — Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
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Hanky Panky
New York Maine Massachusetts Arizona 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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Prophecy
MaineShe lives. Don't move. Don't breathe. There's nowhere to run. She will find you. — When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks insists the loggers are poisoning the water supply, and, though company man Isley denies it, the Vernes can't ignore the strangely mutated wildlife roaming the woods. Robert captures a bear cub for testing and soon finds himself the target of an angry mutant grizzly.
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Pete's Dragon
Maine The 1900sBrazzle Dazzle Brilliance! — Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.
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Carrie
Maine The 1970sIf you've got a taste for terror… take Carrie to the prom. — Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
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Ask her no questions, she'll tell you no lies. Ask her too many and somebody dies. — Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the landlady's creepy and increasingly persistent son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with kindly neighbor boy Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.
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Night of Dark Shadows
MaineJust another night of... Terror. — A newlywed painter and his wife move into his family's ancestral home and find themselves plagued by spirits of past residents.
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House of Dark Shadows
Maine 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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Summer Magic
MaineTHAT WONDERFUL HAYLEY! a-flitterin' in a romantic whirl of her own! — Disney musical about Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow and her three children who move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, a Mr. Hamilton, is a mysterious character away in Europe, but Osh assures them he won't mind their living there, since he won't be coming home for a long time yet. The children and a cousin who comes to live with them have various adventures before an unexpected visitor shows up
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A Summer Place
MaineThe Inn... The Guests... The Sensations... — A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
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It Happened to Jane
New York MaineIt's bigger than all of us! — Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".
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Paul Bunyan
MaineA retelling of the classic Canadian / American tall tale of the enormous lumberjack and his loyal companion, an equally huge blue ox.
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Carousel
Maine New EnglandMore than your eyes have ever seen! — Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met. He would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying the problem; but before he may go, he has to get permission from the gatekeeper by telling him his story. Adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical.
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The Seven Year Itch
New York Maine The 1950sIt TICKLES and TANTALIZES! - The funniest comedy since laughter began! — With his family away for their annual summer holiday, Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they soon start spending time together—maybe a little too much time!
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How to Marry a Millionaire
New York Maine KansasThe Most Glamorous Entertainment Of Your Lifetime in CinemaScope. You See It Without Glasses! — Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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Confidentially Connie
MaineShe knew her way around men! — Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
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Deep Waters
MaineA state welfare agent (Jean Peters) persuades a Maine lobsterman (Dana Andrews) to take a troubled orphan boy (Dean Stockwell) aboard.
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