265 Films & TV Shows Set In New England During The 20th Century
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In Heaven There Is No Beer?
Connecticut Illinois Minnesota Pennsylvania The 1960s The 1980sA joyous romp through the dance, food, music, friendship, and even religion of the Polka. The explosive energy and high spirits of the polka subculture are rendered with warmth and dedication to scholarship in this journey through Polish-American celebrations. Polka stars like Jimmy Sturr, Eddie Blazonzyck and Walt Solek are featured.
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The World According to Garp
New Hampshire The 1940sRobin Williams is Garp. He's got a funny way of looking at life. — Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
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The Verdict
New York Massachusetts New England 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
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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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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Ben's Mill
Vermont The 1980s1982 documentary film directed by Michel Chalufour and John Karol. The film portrays how the energy from the river is used to drive the multitudes of leather belts used to drive the various machines. The film focuses on the steps one man, Ben, uses to make one of his white pine watering tanks.
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Miracle on Ice
Minnesota New York Massachusetts Colorado 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
New York 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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Altered States
🇲🇽 Mexico 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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The Long Days of Summer
Connecticut The 1930sA Season of Innocence Shattered by Hatred — A sequel to praised T.V. movie 'When Every Day Is The Fourth Of July': A Jewish attorney and his son battle anti-Semitism in pre-war New England. Generally well done.
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An American Christmas Carol
New Hampshire The 1930sCharles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film — In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
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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 California 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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When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
Connecticut The 1930sA little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
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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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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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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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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 UFO Incident
New Hampshire The 1960sIn the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.
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Mame
New York Connecticut Georgia The 1930s The 1920sShe'll coax the blues right out of your heart! — The film focuses on eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to her care.
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The Missiles of October
New York Connecticut District of Columbia 🇷🇺 Russia The 1960sThe most powerful docudrama ever produced on The Cuban Missile Crisis — Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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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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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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Class of '44
New York Connecticut The 1940sThey've come a long way since that summer of '42 — Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and other unsavory college activities. Hermie grows apart from his childhood friend Oscy and begins a relationship with Julie that allows him to settle down into maturity.
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