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Movies: Best "illegitimate child" Movies


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The Kid(1921)

FSK: 0+ years
| 53min | Comedy, Drama
4.1/5 (with 876 votes)

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

The King's Daughter(2022)

3.6/5 (with 307 votes)

King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.

Delusions of Grandeur(1971)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 48min | Comedy, History
3.7/5 (with 296 votes)

Don Sallust is minister of the King of Spain. It is a being disingenuous, hypocritical and greedy that collects the taxes himself, he turns in part to his advantage. He is hated by the people he oppresse.Accusé by 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. Decided to revenge, it comes in contact with his nephew seducing Caesar ...

Vengeance Valley(1951)

1h 23min | Western
2.6/5 (with 20 votes)

A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.

The Old Maid(1939)

1h 35min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 18 votes)

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

Blossoms in the Dust(1941)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

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.

Torch Singer(1933)

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

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 then searches for the child she gave up.

The President(1919)

1h 15min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

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 in life – a promise that proves to have fatal consequences.

Neelakuyil(1954)

3h 3min | Drama, Music
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Directed by P. Bhaskaran, Ramu Kariat - With Sathyan

Passions(1984)

1h 32min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Directed by Sandor Stern - With Joanne Woodward

Dangerous Afternoon(1961)

59min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.

Directed by Charles Saunders - With Ruth Dunning

Pilgrimage(1933)

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

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Escape Me Never(1947)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.

She Didn't Say No!(1958)

1h 37min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.

Directed by Cyril Frankel

Ang Tag-araw ni Twinkle(2013)

1h 55min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A group of soldiers led by then-Colonel Cenon Payawan (Cris Villanueva) attacks an NPA camp deep in the wilderness. Among those killed is a rebel woman carrying a child in a sling. Payawan adopts the child, and eighteen years later, the now-retired general and his wife are dealing with her rebellion. Then, her biological father Ka Ruben (an admirably committed Arnold Reyes) suddenly shows up at their doorstep, claiming that he has cancer, and that his dying wish is to get to know his daughter.

Qristine(1916)

1h 23min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Christine, a village girl, raped by Jason Uqmadze, a local aristocrat, decides to take her own life but the villagers spot her body in the river and manage to save her. After the suicide fiasco, Christine befriends Sona, her alleged well-wisher in hope to start her life anew. Instead of helping her, as promised, Sona takes Christine to the brothel… Produced in the Russian Empire.