 Classic movies set in Boston from this era include Captains Courageous (1937), Boomerang (1947), Lost Boundaries (1949) and Our Town (1940).The number of movies produced in Boston between the 1950s and 1980s averaged 10 per decade, including box office hits Boston Strangler (1968) and Jaws (1975), until the 1990s when film production in the region exploded thanks to new and improved filming infrastructure.This upward trend continued in the 2000s, due in large part to tax incentive programs put in place by regional governments to attract filmmakers and production companies.