Veinticinco años después de que una racha de asesinatos brutales conmocionara a la tranquila ciudad de Woodsboro, un nuevo asesino imitador se ha puesto la máscara de Ghostface para resucitar secretos mortales del pasado.
Las vidas de los huéspedes de arriba y los sirvientes de abajo en una fiesta en 1932 en una casa de campo ubicada en Inglaterra mientras investigan un asesinato que involucra a uno de ellos.
Biopic de Chevalier de Saint-Georges, hijo de una esclava africana que alcanzó el éxito en la sociedad francesa del siglo XVIII como virtuoso violinista y compositor, además de como renombrado campeón de esgrima. Nacido Joseph Bologne, hijo ilegítimo de su madre, esclava, y un francés dueño de la plantación donde trabajaba su madre, Chevalier creció enfrentado al racismo y al clasismo de la época, pero llegó a codearse con la alta sociedad francesa de su tiempo, conociendo incluso a María Antonieta, reina consorte de Francia.
Lee siempre ha dependido de su hermanastro Owen para salir de cualquier aprieto. Pero su cobardía llega demasiado lejos cuando permite que atribuyan a Owen la paternidad de un hijo ilegítimo que, en realidad, es suyo.
Una mujer londinense, sumamente pobre, se ve en la necesidad de abandonar a su hijo en una casa de millonarios, aunque por una serie de circustancias el niño terminará siendo cuidado por un vagabundo que se convierte así en su padre. Cinco años después, y con la madre convertida en una popular cantante, el destino tratará de separarlos...
Con Pierce Brosnan. En busca de la inmortalidad, el rey Luis XIV roba la fuerza vital de una sirena, pero todo se complica cuando su hija ilegítima establece lazos con la criatura mágica. Basado en la fantástica historia de Vonda N. McIntyre.
Para Carolina Matilde (Alicia Vikander), casada siendo una adolescente con el rey de Dinamarca Christian VII, es un horror vivir con un marido ciclotímico y estrafalario que propone medidas como nombrar a su perro miembro honorario del Consejo de Estado, o que circulen en Copenhague por la noche carruajes vacíos para recoger a los borrachos. Así las cosas, Carolina se rinde a los encantos del médico personal del rey, un intelectual progresista (Mads Mikkelsen) que se verá dividido entre su lealtad al monarca, su amor a la reina y su oportunidad de convertir una Dinamarca aún medieval en un país ilustrado.
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
A single mother struggles to raise her only daughter on her own.
By his father’s deathbed, the young Karl Victor von Sendlingen swears that he will never make the same mistake his father made in his youth: to marry a girl beneath his own station. The promise proves to have fatal consequences when Karl Victor falls in love with a young governess, whom he impregnates but refuses to marry as this would break his oath to his father. Many years later, he is a highly respected president of the court about to deal out judgment to a young woman who has killed her new-born child. The young woman turns out to be his own illegitimate daughter, and Karl Victor is suddenly faced with the choice of doing his professional duty or making amends for his past misdeeds. (Stumfilm.dk)
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
An untouchable girl is found dead with her illegitimate child, the child is adopted by a postman, a high caste Hindu. No one knows the true identity of the real father of the child, until the child real father, also an upper caste Hindu acknowledges paternity. As the story unfolds, the real father becomes agitated by guilt and anguish and then finally questions his previous actions. The film ends with the Masters own resolutions and true acceptance of his own child and self.