illegitimacy
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    Asya's Happiness (1967)

    The life and loves of a crippled young woman living on a collective farm in the Soviet Union.

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    The Place in the Sun

    Man Ji is a South Korean college student studying in Los Angeles. He is being summoned to return to...

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    Profundo

    A household is turned upside down after a family member dreams of a mitered bishop leading a herd of...

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    Chimeres

    A woman gets pregnant by a man who doesn't want the baby.

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    Die Screaming Marianne

    The first horror film from notorious British director Pete Walker, this is a brutal but rather...

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    The Serpent's Tale

    The discovery of an ancient Islamic artifact stirs trouble.

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    False Pregnancy

    Mildly misanthropic Martin discovers that a former lover is expecting his child. When he learns that...

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    Eva Peron (1996)

    Drama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine...

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    Fratelli Coltelli

    A farce about a familial war which ensues when it's discovered that a tight-fisted mother has willed...

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    Gogo no yuigonjo (1998)

    Yoko is a famous actress who goes to a mountain chalet for a few days rest. There, she learns a...

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    Angele

    French writer/director Marcel Pagnol didn't do much editing when he transferred Jean Glono's...

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    Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

    The story of Edna Gladney (Greer Garson), founder of the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society of...

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    Ecstasy (1940)

    An unhappy bride (Hedy Keisler) returns to her father (André Nox) and meets an engineer (Pierre Nay)...

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    Johnny Belinda (1948)

    Scandal erupts when a woman who cannot hear or speak is accused of gunning down the bully who...

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    A Letter of Introduction (1938)

    A budding actress (Andrea Leeds) learns from her late mother's letter that she is the daughter of a...

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    Man of Evil

    A Victorian aristocrat (Stewart Granger) keeps an evil lord (James Mason) away from a Member of...

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    The Old Maid (1939)

    Her suitor's (George Brent) Civil War death forces an unwed mother (Bette Davis) to let her married...

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    Spy of Napoleon

    Hollywood star Richard Barthelmess, who's about as French as a hot dog with mustard, plays the title...

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    Vengeance Valley

    A rancher's son (Robert Walker) gets his foster brother (Burt Lancaster) in trouble with an unwed...

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    According to Law

    According to Law was intended to cast doubts upon the efficiency of the "legitimacy" laws in force...

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    Adventures of Rusty

    A boy (Ted Donaldson) gets used to his new stepmother (Margaret Lindsay) and pet (Ace the Wonder...

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    Apres L'Amour

    The troubled turn-of-the-century marriage of a Nobel Prize winner provides the basis of this complex...

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    The Bar Sinister

    For those not around in 1917, "bar sinister" referred to illegitimacy. In this case, the person...

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    The Broken Gate

    The Broken Gate was based on a novel by Emerson Hough, of Covered Wagon fame. Dorothy Phillips stars...

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    Child Thou Gavest Me

    This awkwardly titled drama makes for an interesting look into the morals of the first part of the...

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    Campane a martello (1949)

    Gina Lollobridgida was a virtual unknown in the U.S. when Campagne a Martello was released to...

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    Dreams Come True

    Dreams Come True for Ilona Ratkay (Frances Day), a popular opera singer who falls in love with...

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    The Foxes of Harrow (1947)

    An Irish gambler (Rex Harrison) rises socially, marries an aristocrat (Maureen O'Hara) and builds a...

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    Frail Women

    In this melodrama, a woman bears a child out of wedlock during WW I. She gives the child up to a...

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    The Goose Woman

    The Goose Woman was inspired by the notorious Hall-Mills murder case, wherein a woman known as the...