Movies and TV shows set in boston

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in boston ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, clever, suspense, exciting and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with bar, investigation, profanity, rivalry, kiss, murder, flashback, cigarette smoking, cop and revenge plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Hong Kong and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as boston: The Town (2010), Gone Baby Gone (2007), The Departed (2006), The Boondock Saints (1999), Spotlight (2015), The Verdict (1982), Good Will Hunting (1997), Ted (2012), Monument Ave. (1998), Blown Away (1994).

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 7.5
 413K
The Town (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their ...
Style: suspense, captivating, serious, crime thriller, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bank robbery, heist, robbery, gunfight, thief, romancing a criminal, group of criminals, gang, organized crime, gangster, love affair, perfect crime ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, florida, massachusetts
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 7.6
 291K
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, detective, thought provoking, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, moral dilemma, police investigation, missing child, moral ambiguity, tragic event, murder mystery, immorality, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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 8.5
 1.4M
The Departed (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 151 min.
Story: To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, clever, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: mafia, police, organized crime, mole, mobster, undercover cop, twists and turns, undercover, gunfight, corruption, working undercover, gangster ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: boston, america, persia, massachusetts, usa ...
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The Boondock Saints (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: With a God-inspired moral obligation to act against evil, twin brothers Conner and Murphy set out to rid Boston of criminals. However, rather than working within the system, these Irish Americans decide to take swift retribution into their own hands.
Style: suspense, neo noir, entertaining, independent film, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, mafia, revenge, vengeance, violent, shooting, fbi, vigilante, gunfight, morality, hitman, siblings relations ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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 8.1
 499K
Spotlight (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters ...
Style: factual, suspense, psychological, tense, talky ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: journalism, investigation, lawyer, investigative journalism, conspiracy, sexual abuse, newspaper, journalist, catholic church, pedophilia, catholicism, child abuse ...
Time: year 2001, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 70s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, new england, nova scotia, florida
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 7.7
 46K
The Verdict (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties ...
Style: suspense, tense, atmospheric, intense, thought provoking ...
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, redemption, lawyer, court, legal action, character study, fighting the system, legal, alcoholic, trial, law ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa, new york, new york state
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Good Will Hunting (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. ...
Style: psychological, emotional, philosophical, sentimental, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: mathematics, professor, genius, prodigy, philosophy, psychology, life philosophy, life, university, psychotherapy, mentor, existentialism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s, 2010s
Place: boston, harvard university, massachusetts, america, persia ...
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 6.9
 653K
Ted (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.
Style: funny, humorous, buddy comedy, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: marijuana, bear, friendship, silly humor, toys, teddy bear, stoner, sarcasm, buddy, party, homosexual, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 80s, year 1985, 21st century
Place: boston, peru, massachusetts, usa
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Monument Ave. (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, drug dealing, criminal heroes, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, juvenile delinquency, gang, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, europe ...
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 6.2
 33K
Blown Away (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, psychopath, bomb squad, brutality, anarchist, stalking, investigation, race against time, government agency, danger, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place: boston, ireland, usa, northern ireland, massachusetts ...
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 6.6
 180K
The Heat (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance. Shannon Mullins, one of Boston P.D.'s "finest," is foul-mouthed and has a very short fuse, ...
Style: buddy comedy, action comedy, humorous, light, slapstick ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: women, misfit partners, fbi, policewoman, buddy, friendship, police, police investigation, sarcasm, female protagonist, buddy cop, profanity ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa, new york
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Next Stop Wonderland (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart!
Style: romantic comedy, independent film, clever, heartfelt, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, writers, fall in love, dating, loneliness, ship, magic, hipster, flirting, grief, siblings, in love ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa, london, manhattan new york city
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 7.5
 27K
Being Human (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Three paranormal roommates, a ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf, struggle to keep their dark secrets from the world, while helping each other navigate the complexities of living double lives.
Style: semi serious, scary, captivating, exciting, spiritual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, werewolf, supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, friendship, lifestyle, everyday life, roommate, transformation, twentysomething life, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston
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 6.2
 47K
Fever Pitch (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When relaxed and charming Ben Wrightman meets workaholic Lindsey Meeks she finds him sweet and charming, they hit it off and when it is winter Ben can spend every waking hour with Lindsey, but when summer comes around the corner Lindsey discovers ...
Style: funny, romantic, romantic comedy, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: baseball, teacher, obsession, love, happy ending, contests and competitions, relationship problems, women, career woman, dating, workaholic, fall in love ...
Time: year 2005, year 2003, year 1980, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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 7.8
 387K
The Fighter (2010)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being ...
Style: inspirational, sincere, realistic, uplifting, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: boxing, boxer, addiction, underdog, biopic, athlete's life, drug abuse, drug addiction, arrest, white trash, fight, working class ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, new jersey, america, usa ...
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 6.8
 265K
21 (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for ...
Style: suspense, clever, inspirational, surprise ending, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids
Plot: gambling, casino, mathematics, prodigy, youth, talented, professor, cheating, blackjack, genius, manipulation, card playing ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: las vegas, boston, harvard university, usa, massachusetts
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 7.9
 483K
Mystic River (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style: psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
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 7.3
 112K
Patriots Day (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.
Style: intense, suspense, emotional, tense, factual ...
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, police, tragedy, fbi, courage, surveillance, manhunt, violence, investigation, chase, brutality ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: massachusetts, boston, america, usa
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Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style: sad, depressing, heartbreaking, psychological, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: family drama, sadness, loneliness, depression, loss, suicide attempt, death, nephew, grief, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, adoption ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
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The Boston Strangler (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, rough, suspense, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, strangulation, split personality, murder, double life, police investigation, serial rapist, psychopath, police detective, obsession, manhunt ...
Time: 20th century, year 1968, 60s, year 1963
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts, new england
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank ...
Style: neo noir, cynical, noir, retro, crime thriller ...
Audience: manly
Plot: gangster, criminal, betrayal, bartender, heist, hustler, robbery, mafia, organized crime, gang, city, politics ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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 6.3
 232K
Ted 2 (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, not serious, action comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, teens, adult
Plot: silly humor, teddy bear, lawyer, marijuana, buddy, profanity, adoption, foul language, buddies, anthropomorphism, friends, odd couple ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts, new york
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 7.2
 416K
The Equalizer (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ...
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, brutal, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot: vigilante, vigilantism, corruption, hitman, assassin, one man army, gunfight, organized crime, justice, lone hero, brutality, tough heroes ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, moscow russia, usa, massachusetts
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 5.7
 3K
The Makeover (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This is an update of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" that changes the genders of the main characters. Hannah Higgins attempts to turn blue-collar Boston beer vendor Elliot Doolittle into a viable candidate and inadvertently learns ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, romantic
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: politics, disorder, hopes, fish out of water, social differences, partner, campaign, couples, rivalry, misfit, unlikely couple, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts
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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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Boston Public (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school ...
Style: realistic, humorous, sentimental, sincere, sitcom ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teacher, teachers and students, rivalry, youth, teenage life, everyday life, social problems, society, idealism, struggle, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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 8.5
 50K
Boston Legal (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley and produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3, 2004, to December 8, 2008. Boston Legal is a spin-off of long-running Kelley ...
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: law firm, hotshot lawyer, lawyer, courtroom drama, partner, friendship between men, society, workplace, idealism, trial, civil rights, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, las vegas, massachusetts, usa
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Starting Over (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: starting over, support group, dating, hopes, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, infidelity, thanksgiving, love, friendship, holiday ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: boston, usa, new york
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Vendetta: No Conscience, No Mercy (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: "Irish Eyes" explores the relationship between two Irish-American brothers in Boston born to immigrant parents and raised in a rough, working class Irish neighborhood. After watching their father being gunned down in front of their eyes as ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: irish mob, gangster, family relations, siblings relations, politics, ambition, rivalry, battles, criminal heroes, gang, vigilantism, contests and competitions ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, 50s, 1950s
Place: boston, ireland
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 7.7
 10K
The Practice (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. Running for eight seasons on ABC from 1997 to 2004, the show won the Emmy in 1998 and 1999 for Best Drama Series, and ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, clever, thrilling ...
Plot: lawyer, law firm, courtroom drama, legal, hotshot lawyer, courtroom, moral dilemma, social problems, workplace, dedicated lawyer, dishonesty, injustice ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: boston, las vegas, massachusetts, usa
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