Welcome to Boston. A dystopian place where drug dealers execute foreign tourists, bands of thugs kidnap and rape young women, the most powerful man in town is a city councilor beholden to organized crime, most of the cops are crooked, and the police chief is a feckless old man who might do the right thing... Continue Reading →
Mystery Street, while not the first movie filmed and set in Massachusetts, might be the first real "Boston movie." Ricardo Montalban plays Peter Moralas, a young Barnstable County detective whose first murder investigation takes him to Boston after a skeleton is found among the dunes of Cape Cod. With nothing but a box of bones... Continue Reading →
A band of writers for an alternate Boston newspaper struggle to keep the paper afloat amid rumors that the paper will be sold to a big publisher. Harry Lucas (John Heard) has been the Back Bay Mainline's top writer since it's inception an the late '60s. Abbie (Lindsay Crouse) is both Harry's girlfriend and the... Continue Reading →
At some point late last century, the themes of Boston films started to change. Stuffy blue bloods and university types began to give way to gritty blue-collar Irishmen. Karl Malden stars as crusty old iron worker Jack Galvin, who just wants his son Billy (Lenny von Dohlen) to have a better life than he had.... Continue Reading →
A Boston cop (George Nader) befriends a neighborhood hooligan (Tony Curtis) who can't stay out of trouble, no matter how much the cop tries to help him. When $2.5 million goes missing from an armored car firm across the street from Curtis's garage, Nader thinks he knows where to find the thieves. Six Bridges to... Continue Reading →
A soviet spy ring is on the trail of a prominent Boston mathematician, trying to get their hands on his breakthrough equations. The longer it takes to get the goods, the more desperate the Soviets become. Can the Boston branch of the FBI snuff out the spy plot before it's too late? Walk East on Beacon was... Continue Reading →
After a Harvard law student (Robert F. Lyons) on a drug run falls in love with a California girl (Barbara Hershey), he convinces her to smuggle the next shipment of marijuana to Boston and join him. She gets busted with the drugs at Logan Airport and a crooked Boston cop (Charles Durning) ends up with... Continue Reading →
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