265 Films & TV Shows Set In New England During The 20th Century
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Dead Poets Society
Vermont The 1950sHe was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary. — At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
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Field of Dreams
Iowa Minnesota Massachusetts The 1980sIf you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true. — Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
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Pet Sematary
Maine Illinois The 1980sSometimes dead is better. — Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At first, only the family's cat makes the return trip, but an accident forces a heartbroken father to contemplate the unthinkable.
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Warlock
Massachusetts California The 1980s The 17th CenturySatan also has one son — In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into the future, the warlock winds up in the 1980s and plans to bring about the end of the world. Redferne follows the enchanter into the modern era and continues his mission, but runs into trouble in such unfamiliar surroundings. With the help of a young woman, can Redferne finally defeat the warlock?
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The McPherson Tape
Connecticut The 1980sOn October 8th, 1983, the McPherson family gathered together to celebrate the 5th birthday of Michelle, the littlest member of their household. Everything was captured on VHS by Michael McPherson and his new camcorder — including the alien invasion.
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The Last Aristocrats
Massachusetts 🇮🇹 Italy Jiangsu Province Shanghai The 1940sIn 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take Shanghai.
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Beetlejuice
Connecticut The 1980sHe's guaranteed to put some life in your afterlife. — Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he's got a diabolical agenda of his own.
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Mystic Pizza
Connecticut The 1980sA romantic comedy with the works — Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
🇭🇹 Haiti Massachusetts The 1980s The 1970sDon't bury me... I'm not dead! — A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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Funny Farm
Vermont New York The 1980sChevy Chase finds life in the country isn't what it's cracked up to be! — Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
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Mr. North
Rhode Island The 1920sSome say he's a miracle man. Some say he's a fraud. You are about to meet a most unusual young man. — Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments...
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The Wizard of Loneliness
Vermont The 1940sSometimes needing someone is the bravest thing you can do. — A family drama.
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I'll Be Home for Christmas
Massachusetts The 1940sThe Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War II.
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Jaws: The Revenge
Massachusetts 🇧🇸 Bahamas The 1980sThis time, it’s personal. — After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
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The Witches of Eastwick
Rhode Island Massachusetts The 1980sThree Beautiful Women. One Lucky Devil. — Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
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Baby Boom
New York Vermont The 1980sAn unexpected comedy — The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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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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Soul Man
Massachusetts The 1980sA comedy with heart and soul — A caucasian prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.
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One Crazy Summer
Massachusetts The 1980sThey're out of school, out on Nantucket, and out of their minds. With this crowd, anything can happen! — An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
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A Case of Deadly Force
Massachusetts The 1970sFact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband's innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision. Written by John Sacksteder
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The Challenge
Rhode Island The 1980sThe story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New York Yacht Club, after an unbroken 132 year winning streak.
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Clue
New England The 1950sSeven Suspects, Six Weapons, Five Bodies and Three Endings. — Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
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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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Splash
New York Massachusetts The 1980s The 1960sAllen Bauer Thought He'd Never Find The Right Woman... He Was Only Half Wrong! — A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
New Hampshire 🇦🇹 Austria The 1950sIf you experienced "The World According To Garp" and found it witty, delightful and totally unpredictable, then be happily surprised all over again when you join the fun and games that go on at the...Hotel New Hampshire. — The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
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