Here we've displayed a list of the best Illegitimate Child films : To Each His Own(1946), The Old Maid(1939), The Snapper(1993), The Corn Is Green(1945), The Visit(1964), Belle(2013), Titanic(1953), Lady Macbeth(2016), That Certain Woman(1937), Evergreen(1934), Desire Under the Elms(1958), We Live Again(1934) ... ...
Drama
USA
1946
122 Minutes
Olivia de Havilland John Lund Mary Anderson Roland Culver Phillip Terry Bill Goodwin Virginia Welles Victoria Horne Griff Barnett Alma Macrorie Bill Ward
businesswoman pilot lord wife father son engaging fascinating intense london roof new york state pharmacy household train station illegitimate child adoption jealousy love world war ii
An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
Drama
USA
1939
95 Minutes
Bette Davis Miriam Hopkins George Brent Donald Crisp Jane Bryan Louise Fazenda James Stephenson Jerome Cowan William Lundigan Cecilia Loftus
adoptive mother cousin daughter father mother emotional melodramatic united states american civil war illegitimate child mother/daughter relationship self-sacrifice sacrifice rivalry 1880s
The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.
Comedy
Ireland
1993
94 Minutes
Colm Meaney Tina Kellegher Ruth McCabe Fionnuala Murphy Patricia Laffan Deirdre O'Brien Karen Woodley
daughter mother father brother sister brash gutsy intense raw family home ireland small town illegitimate child pregnancy catholicism rumors growing up transformation 1990s
20 year old Irish girl Sharon Curly lives at home with her large family. But notoriety in her neighbourhood suddenly arrives when, after a night out on the town, she becomes pregnant and refuses to divulge the identity of the baby's father.
Drama
USA
1945
114 Minutes
Bette Davis John Dall Nigel Bruce Joan Lorring Rhys Williams Rosalind Ivan Mildred Dunnock
schoolteacher spinster student coal miner squire pregnant woman moving inspiring village school glansarno, wales education coal mining ambition troubled youth illegitimate child discovery quest sacrifice 1890s
A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
Drama
Italy|France|West Germany|USA
1964
100 Minutes
wealthy woman man doctor painter innkeeper emotional disturbing small town household europe moral dilemma betrayal affair vengeance greed illegitimate child revenge temptation 1960s
An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town's expectations with her generosity, but she's only out for revenge.
Biography, Drama, History
UK
2013
103 Minutes
Gugu Mbatha-Raw Tom Wilkinson Sam Reid Sarah Gadon Miranda Richardson Penelope Wilton Emily Watson Tom Felton James Norton Matthew Goode
mixed-race woman admiral vicar abolitionist emotional powerful endearing west indies painting england race relations illegitimate child family relationships love transformation 18th century
The mixed-race daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in eighteenth century England.
Drama
USA
1953
97 Minutes
Clifton Webb Barbara Stanwyck Robert Wagner Audrey Dalton Thelma Ritter Brian Aherne Richard Basehart Allyn Joslyn James Todd William Johnstone Charles B. Fitzsimons
husband wife captain son daughter socialite melodramatic moving sad cruise ship shipwreck failed romance divorce family dysfunction illegitimate child hms titanic escape love 1910s
An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the ill-fated ship.
Drama, History
UK
2016
89 Minutes
Florence Pugh Cosmo Jarvis Paul Hilton Naomi Ackie Christopher Fairbank Bill Fellows Joseph Teague Ian Conningham Fleur Houdijk
lord adulterer maid father bride servant tense bleak brutal frightening family estate bedroom woods relationships moral dilemma desire manipulation illegitimate child dangerous romance transformation
In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.
Drama
USA
1937
93 Minutes
Bette Davis Henry Fonda Ian Hunter Anita Louise Donald Crisp Hugh O'Connell Katharine Alexander Mary Philips Minor Watson Ben Welden Sidney Toler
bootlegger widow secretary attorney playboy father melodramatic disheartening emotional chicago apartment europe marriage illegitimate child inheritance elopement love custody battle forbidden love sacrifice
Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1934
90 Minutes
Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale Betty Balfour Barry MacKay Ivor Maclaren Hartley Power Patrick Ludlow Betty Shale
singer daughter ex-boyfriend publicist understudy amusing lighthearted london stage south africa mistaken identity deception illegitimate child song and dance romance fame love discovery 1930s
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, has a guilty secret: She has a baby daughter, born out of wedlock. Harriet leaves her public and flees to South ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1958
114 Minutes
Sophia Loren Anthony Perkins Burl Ives Frank Overton Pernell Roberts Rebecca Welles Jean Willes Anne Seymour Roy Fant
widower farmer wife slave gripping fascinating melodramatic new england farm california slavery farming money affair illegitimate child discovery forbidden love transformation 1950s
Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.
Drama
USA
1934
82 Minutes
aristocrat servant noblewoman killer prisoner military officer moving suspenseful russia greenhouse moscow courtroom siberia train station lust illegitimate child prostitution class distinctions trial redemption
Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA|UK
1950
120 Minutes
Tyrone Power Orson Welles Cecile Aubry Jack Hawkins Michael Rennie Finlay Currie Herbert Lom Mary Clare Robert Blake Alfonso Bedoya Gibb McLaughlin
nobleman best friend mysterious woman warlord enemy striking melodramatic england europe china countryside war father/son relationship illegitimate child crusade adventure escape 13th century
A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.
Drama
Ireland|UK|USA
1998
92 Minutes
Meryl Streep Michael Gambon Catherine McCormack Kathy Burke Sophie Thompson Bríd Brennan Rhys Ifans Darrell Johnston Lorcan Cranitch Peter Gowen Dawn Bradfield
sister spinster son brother teacher missionary amusing tender heartwarming ireland farm cottage family illegitimate child spanish civil war catholicism memory romance love sacrifice
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Romance
USA
1936
140 Minutes
Fredric March Olivia de Havilland Gale Sondergaard Edmund Gwenn Claude Rains Anita Louise Louis Hayward Steffi Duna Billy Mauch Donald Woods Akim Tamiroff
hero pretty woman father mother grandfather melodramatic emotional passionate italy europe france africa cuba abandonment illegitimate child expedition romance adventure discovery quest
In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.
Drama
USA
1935
80 Minutes
Rochelle Hudson Henry Fonda Slim Summerville Edward Trevor Margaret Hamilton Andy Devine Russell Simpson Spring Byington Astrid Allwyn Sara Haden Al Lydell
young woman squire wife son neighbor cousin melodramatic intense new england town household street river garden rural life father/son relationship illegitimate child judgment jealousy storm
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Western
USA
1951
83 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Robert Walker Joanne Dru Sally Forrest John Ireland Carleton Carpenter Hugh O'Brian
foreman rancher brother rival mother wife tense thrilling colorado ranch jail household adoption jealousy sibling rivalry framed illegitimate child infidelity rivalry revenge
The sons of a Colorado cattle baron, one biological and the other adopted, resent one another and fight for control of their father's cattle empire.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
1950
96 Minutes
Eleanor Parker Agnes Moorehead Hope Emerson Ellen Corby Betty Garde Jan Sterling Lee Patrick Jane Darwell Gertrude Michael Joan Miller Marjorie Crossland
robber warden matron prisoner mother dark brutal fiery melodramatic prison cell infirmary prison life murder pregnancy illegitimate child mother/child relationship sadism fall metamorphosis
An innocent (Eleanor Parker) lands in a women's prison with crude inmates and a big matron called Evelyn (Hope Emerson).
Drama
1979
100 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Ian Saynor Bill Fraser Patricia Hayes Anna Massey
teacher student spinster squire pregnant woman coal miner moving uplifting village school glansarno, wales education coal mining troubled youth poverty illegitimate child discovery quest sacrifice 1890s
A spinster schoolteacher (Katharine Hepburn) cultivates a gifted student (Ian Saynor) among illiterate miners in 1890s Wales.
Musical, Drama, Action
1978
167 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Sanjeev Kumar Hema Malini Waheeda Rehman Rakhee Poonam Dhillon Shashi Kapoor
young man young woman mother estranged father family member emotional endearing gripping moving india city house bungalow office cheating illegitimate child jealousy family business revenge quest
Drama
1932
128 Minutes
Raimu Orane Demazis Pierre Fresnay Fernand Charpin Mouriès Robert Vattier
fiancée mother father merchant sailor manager emotional engaging intense marseilles, france port café pregnancy love marriage family social standing illegitimate child sacrifice love
Marius (Pierre Fresnay) goes to sea, pregnant Fanny (Orane Demazis) marries, and Cesar (Raimu) is a godfather in part two of the Marseille trilogy.
Comedy, Drama
1951
110 Minutes
Cary Grant Jeanne Crain Finlay Currie Walter Slezak Hume Cronyn Sidney Blackmer Basil Ruysdael Katherine Locke
physician student friend professor father dean offbeat quirky striking university hospital small town illegitimate child medicine morality friendship jealousy discovery love sacrifice
A doctor's unconventional theories of medicine and relationship with a young student place his reputation in jeopardy.