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From Salem witches to Good Will Hunting bars, Boston brains meet coastal melancholy. Massachusetts stories debate in Harvard Yard and wreck on Cape Cod shores.
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Browse 475 books, 353 movies, 21 TV shows and 41 games set in Massachusetts.

Shutter Island
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 troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Good Will Hunting
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…

The Departed
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…

Knives Out
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's…

A Beautiful Mind
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Little Women
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

The Equalizer
McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new quiet life. But when he meets Teri a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters he can’t stand idly…

Mystic River
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.

The Simpsons
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the…

Spotlight
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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