Hot on the heels of our popular Essential Boston Reading List, we present you with the Essential Boston Movie list. As always, if you want to add a movie, think a movie should not be here, or just want to yell and call us stupid, feel free.

• The Parent Trap (1961)
• The Boston Strangler (1968)
• The Out-of-Towners (1970; remake 1999)
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
• The Brink's Job (1978)
• Dirty Tricks (1981)
• The Bostonians (1984)
• Glory (1989)
• Run (1991)
• Far and Away (1992)
• The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (1993)
• The Next Karate Kid (1994)
• Celtic Pride (1996)
• Amistad (1997)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• A Civil Action (1998)
• Next Stop Wonderland (1998)
• The Proposition (1998)
• The Boondock Saints (1999)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• Harvard Man (2001)
• Legally Blonde (2001)
• Prozac Nation (2001)
• Alex & Emma (2003)
• Mystic River (2003)
• National Treasure (2004)
• Fever Pitch (2005)
• Black Irish (2006)

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