Films set in Boston

2006 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2010 film by David Fincher

1997 film by Gus Van Sant

2015 film directed by Tom McCarthy

2018 film directed by James Wan

2003 film directed by Bryan Singer

2005 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2003 film directed by Clint Eastwood

2011 American film directed by Bennett Miller

2010 film directed by David O. Russell

1970 film directed by Arthur Hiller

2012 film directed by Seth MacFarlane

1997 film directed by Jim Gillespie

2009 film directed by Alex Proyas

2014 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2015 film by Seth MacFarlane

2019 film directed by Michael Dougherty

2022 film directed by Ruben Fleischer

2010 film by James Mangold

2010 film directed by Ben Affleck

2016 film by Rawson Marshall Thurber

2008 film by Rob Minkoff

2006 film directed by Paul Greengrass

2008 film directed by Eric Brevig

1995 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

1982 film by Sidney Lumet

1989 film by Phil Alden Robinson

2007 film by Ben Affleck

2024 film directed by David Ayer

2008 film directed by Robert Luketic

2015 film by Scott Cooper

The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson, and starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa in his film debut. Set in 1970, it tells the story of a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students who have nowhere to go during the school's Christmas holiday break. Filming took place from January to March 2022 in Massachusetts. The Holdovers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the United States by Focus Features on October 27, 2023.

2013 film directed by Paul Feig

1998 horror film directed by Danny Cannon

1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper

2012 film by Andrew Dominik

1992 film by Ron Howard

2011 film by Frank Coraci

1994 film by Curtis Hanson

2003 US-UK film directed by Jon Amiel

Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction action film based on the 2005–2006 comic book series The Surrogates. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as Tom Greer, an FBI agent who ventures out into the real world to investigate the murder of surrogates (humanoid remote-controlled robots). It also stars Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames.

1994 film directed by Christopher Cain

2010 film by Martin Campbell

2018 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

2005 film directed by Lexi Alexander

1999 film by Troy Duffy

1973 film by Hal Ashby

2013 film directed by Lasse Hallström

2001 film directed by Ted Demme

2010 film directed by Anand Tucker

2016 film by Peter Berg

2023 film directed by Cord Jefferson

2003 film by Roger Donaldson

2025 film by Jonathan Entwistle

1954 film by George Seaton

2011 film directed by Mark Mylod

2007 film by Andy Fickman

1963 film by Otto Preminger

R.I.P.D.: Rest in Peace Department, or simply R.I.P.D., is a 2013 American supernatural action comedy film starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds. The film was directed by Robert Schwentke from a screenplay Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi based on the 1999 comic book R.I.P.D. by Peter M. Lenkov and Lucas Marangon. The film also stars Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker, Stéphanie Szostak, and Marisa Miller.