If you are a lover of true crime and justice, and you're heading to Massachusetts on vacation, you may want to take in some of these films, All are at least partially filmed (although not necessarily set) in the state. (Note: Date listed  may refer to year film released, not when filming occurred.)

 

• American Hustle (2013, shot in and around Boston, including Worcester)
• American Woman (2018, filmed in Brockton)
• Before and After (1996, filmed in Egremont on Baldwin Hill East at the Rathbun Farm. Filming also in and around Pittsfield, Lee, Great Barrington, Springfield, and Lenox.
• Black Mass (2015, filmed in Boston, Dorchester, Cambridge, East Boston, South Boston, and Quincy)
• Boston Strangler (2023, filmed in Belmont, Braintree, Jamaica Plain, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Roxbury, and Wellesley)
• The Boston Strangler (1968, filmed in and around Boston despite uncooperative city and state officials)
• The Brink’s Job (1978, filmed in and around Boston, Stoneham, and Jamaica Plain)
• By the Gun (2014, filmed in Boston)
• A Case of Deadly Force (1986, made for TV, shot in Boston)
• Coma (1978, filmed in Boston, Rockport, and Marblehead)
• The Crucible (1996, filmed in Hog Island)
• Dead Reckoning (2020, originally titled Altar Rock, partially filmed in Duxbury)
• The Departed (2006, filmed partially in Boston)
• The Equalizer (2014, filmed throughout Boston, including Haverhill, Hamilton, Ipswich, and Swampscott)
• The Equalizer 2 (2018, filmed in Boston, Lynn, Duxbury, and Brant Rock)
• Finestkind (2023, filmed in New Bedford)
• Flowers in the Attic (1987, partially filmed at Castle Hill, a mansion in Ipswich)
• Gone Baby Gone (2007, filmed in Boston and Quincy)
• The Good Son (filmed in Beverly, Cape Anny, Rockport, Essex, Annisquam, Danvers, Newington, Jackson, and Marblehead)
• Grey Lady (2015, filmed in Boston and Nantucket)
• Hanky Panky (1982, partially filmed in Cambridge and at the New England Aquarium in Boston)
• The Heat (2013, filmed in Boston)
• Hiding Out (1987, filmed partially in Boston)
• Honest Thief (2019, shot in and around Worchester)
• The Honeymoon Killers (1970, filmed primarily in Pittsfield)
• How to Rob (2023, shot in Boston and Cape Cod)
• In Dreams (1999, filmed in Northampton, Southampton, Northfield, and Florence)
• Just Cause (1995, filmed partially in Cambridge)
• Knight and Day (2010, filmed in Boston, Bridgewater, and Worcester)
• Live by Night (2016, partially filmed in Lawrence, North Andover, and Boston)
• Monument Ave (1998, originally titled Snitch, filmed in Boston)
• Mystery Street (1950, filmed in Boston and Cape Cod)
• Mystic River (2003, filmed in Boston)
• Patriots Day (2016, filmed partially in Boston)
• Pretty Poison (1968, shot at Great Barrington)
• The River Wild (partially filmed in Boston)
• The Sea of Trees (2015, filmed in Foxborough)
• The Secret Village (2013, filmed in the Berkshires)
• Six Bridges to Cross (1955, filmed in Boston)
• Spotlight (2015, filmed in Boston and Dorchester)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1968, filmed in Boston, Beverly, Cambridge, South Hamilton, Belmont, and Ipswich)
• Thoroughbreds (2017, filmed in Cohasset, Tewksbury, Scituate ,Westwood, and Wellesley)
• Thug (to be released, filmed in Winthrop, Allston, and Norwood)
• Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987, filmed in Provincetown)
• This Town (2010, filmed in Boston, Melrosem Walpole, and Woburn)
• The Verdict (1982, filmed partially in Boston)
• What Doesn’t Kill You (2008, filmed in South Boston)
• Wheelman (2017, filmed in Boston and Lawrence)
• Where are the Children? (1986, filmed in Bourne and Provincetown)