Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "illegitimate-son"

51. Kalank (2019)

Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Romance

The lives of six enigmatic characters become entangled whilst in search of love, but separated by the dichotomy between the two worlds of Husnabad, a town in North India.

Director: Abhishek Varman | Stars: Madhuri Dixit, Sonakshi Sinha, Alia Bhatt, Kriti Sanon

Votes: 17,017 | Gross: $2.73M

52. Marriage Italian Style (1964)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano

Votes: 11,063

53. Raajneeti (2010)

Not Rated | 163 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Samar, the son of a political family, plans to go to the USA to live with his girlfriend. However, the death of his father makes him stop and enter the dirty world of politics.

Director: Prakash Jha | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Ranbir Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Katrina Kaif

Votes: 18,977 | Gross: $1.44M

54. Mahabharat (1988–1990)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When a dynastic struggle between the collateral branches of the Kuru clan, the Kauravas and Pandavas lead them to the threshold of war, Lord Krishna decides to step in and take control of the situation.

Stars: Harish Bhimani, Nitish Bharadwaj, Mukesh Khanna, Gajendra Chauhan

Votes: 23,391

55. Carbon Copy (1981)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

When a rich white corporate executive finds out that he has an illegitimate black son, things start falling apart for him at home, work, and in his social circles.

Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: George Segal, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden, Dick Martin

Votes: 3,264 | Gross: $9.57M

56. The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992 Video)

R | 583 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The multigenerational saga of the rise and fall of the Corleone crime family.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro

Votes: 16,400

57. City Island (2009)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

Prison guard Vince tells Molly from acting class, that one inmate is his 24 y.o. love child. Vince takes him home to stay with his family - straight A son with fat girl fetish, college dropout/stripper daughter and cute wife.

Director: Raymond De Felitta | Stars: Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer

Votes: 32,579 | Gross: $6.67M

58. Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1991 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Miss Marple is invited to the manor house of an old friend, it is not long before a puzzling murder puts her mind to work.

Director: Norman Stone | Stars: Joan Hickson, Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, Faith Brook

Votes: 1,869

59. The Last King (2016)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, History

In the year 1206 Norway is raged by civil war. The King's illegitimate infant son, Håkon Håkonsson, which half the kingdom wants killed off, is guarded in secrecy by two men. A story which changed the course of the country's history.

Director: Nils Gaup | Stars: Jakob Oftebro, Kristofer Hivju, Torkel Dommersnes Soldal, Ane Ulimoen Øverli

Votes: 7,760 | Gross: $0.01M

60. The Shamer's Daughter (2015)

96 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Medieval Dunark's ruling family is murdered and the heir found with a bloody dagger. As the witch Shamer can't shame the heir to admit, the Shamer's daughter is fetched, as she, too, can make people see their shameful acts.

Director: Kenneth Kainz | Stars: Roland Møller, Jakob Oftebro, Maria Bonnevie, Allan Hyde

Votes: 4,211

61. Nothing But a Man (1964)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance

A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

Director: Michael Roemer | Stars: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster

Votes: 2,027 | Gross: $0.02M

62. Cinderella Liberty (1973)

R | 117 min | Drama, Romance

A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.

Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: James Caan, Marsha Mason, Kirk Calloway, Eli Wallach

Votes: 2,457 | Gross: $2.86M

63. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.

Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet

Votes: 13,673

64. Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama

A fan club of die-hard James Dean fans meet on the 20th anniversary of his death and reconnect, opening old wounds and facing new ones.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Cher, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis, Sudie Bond

Votes: 5,177 | Gross: $0.84M

65. Son of the Pink Panther (1993)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Crime

Charles Dreyfus encounters Jacques Gambrelli, who reminds him painfully of Inspector Clouseau, the man who drove him insane. With good reason: Gambrelli is Clouseau's son.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Shabana Azmi

Votes: 5,932 | Gross: $2.46M

66. The Sea of Grass (1947)

Passed | 123 min | Drama, Western

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas

Votes: 2,447

67. The Black Rose (1950)

Approved | 120 min | Adventure, History, Romance

A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins

Votes: 2,464

68. Kung Fu: The Movie (1986 TV Movie)

89 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Kwai Chang Caine meets up with the father of the man he killed in China who seeks revenge using Caine's own illegitimate son.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: David Carradine, Kerrie Keane, Mako, William Lucking

Votes: 967

69. Zama (2017)

Unrated | 115 min | Drama, History

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.

Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín

Votes: 7,172 | Gross: $0.20M

70. A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 107 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Lawrence and Feisal go to argue for Arab independence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Alexander Siddig, Denis Quilley, Nicholas Jones

Votes: 734

71. Home from the Hill (1960)

Passed | 150 min | Drama, Romance

Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.

Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton

Votes: 3,884

72. Nobel Son (2007)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A professor of chemistry wins the Nobel Prize. His wife joins him to Stockholm but his PhD. working son gets kidnapped. The kidnapper demands $2,000,000 = prize sum.

Director: Randall Miller | Stars: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen

Votes: 6,146 | Gross: $0.54M

73. Naajayaz (1995)

Not Rated | 157 min | Action, Drama

Inspector Jai is an upright and fearless cop who is given the job to take down the criminal empire of Raj Solanki. Jai and his accomplice Inspector Sandhya, who also happens to be his love, start taking down Raj's empire with gusto.

Director: Mahesh Bhatt | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Ajay Devgn, Juhi Chawla, Deepak Tijori

Votes: 723

74. Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005)

133 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Leaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by a small auto repair shop owned by ... See full summary »

Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Maki Horikita, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Koyuki

Votes: 2,471

75. The Barber of Siberia (1998)

180 min | Comedy, Drama, History

At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Richard Harris

Votes: 12,815

76. Natural Selection (2011)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Having discovered that her dying husband has an illegitimate child living in Florida, a devout Christian housewife leaves her sheltered world on a mission to reunite father and son.

Director: Robbie Pickering | Stars: Matt O'Leary, Rachael Harris, John Diehl, Gayland Williams

Votes: 1,477 | Gross: $0.05M

77. The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir

Nick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always a bit disappointed with Nick's choice of ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven

Votes: 6,296 | Gross: $3.86M

78. Forever Amber (1947)

Approved | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.

Directors: Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl | Stars: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders

Votes: 1,698 | Gross: $16.00M

79. It's Entertainment (2014)

Not Rated | 140 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Akhil, an underdog and a failure, comes to know that his real father is a rich diamond merchant who has just passed away. When he goes to retrieve his wealth, he learns that a dog has inherited it.

Directors: Sajid, Farhad Samji | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Tamannaah Bhatia, Junior, Krushna Abhishek

Votes: 9,604

80. Kachche Dhaage (1999)

Not Rated | 144 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Two stepbrothers who loathe each other have to work together to avoid being framed for terrorist activities.

Director: Milan Luthria | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan, Manisha Koirala, Namrata Shirodkar

Votes: 1,740

81. Touch and Go (1986)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An ice hockey star is accosted by a youth gang who attempt to rob him; after he chases them off he catches the youngest member and gives him a ride home, where he meets the boy's mother. A ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Michael Keaton, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ajay Naidu, John Reilly

Votes: 1,041 | Gross: $1.25M

82. The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002 TV Movie)

100 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate after being told an heir's estate is plagued by a ghostly dog.

Director: David Attwood | Stars: Richard Roxburgh, Ian Hart, Richard E. Grant, Matt Day

Votes: 2,645

83. Dhadkan (2000)

161 min | Drama, Romance

Anjali and Dev are in love and plan to marry, but her family gets her married to Ram. Years later, Dev shows up to reunite with Anjali, who has managed to fall in love with her husband.

Director: Dharmesh Darshan | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Suniel Shetty, Mahima Chaudhry

Votes: 8,086 | Gross: $0.05M

84. Zakhm (1998)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama

Amidst religious riots, a son deals with his mother's life-threatening injuries, and her last request.

Director: Mahesh Bhatt | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Pooja Bhatt, Nagarjuna Akkineni, Sonali Bendre

Votes: 3,535

85. The King (2005)

R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller

A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father Dave, whom he's never met. He is the pastor at a Christian community church. He tells Elvis ... See full summary »

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Harring, Derek Alvarado

Votes: 7,476 | Gross: $0.28M

86. God's Gun (1976)

R | 94 min | Western

A priest and his twin brother take turns defending a small town from the vicious Clayton gang.

Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Boone, Sybil Danning

Votes: 1,642

87. Yeh Hai Jalwa (2002)

Not Rated | 165 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Raj Saxena (Salman Khan) goes to London, expecting his long-lost dad (Rishi Kapoor) to warmly greet him, but things do not go as planned.

Director: David Dhawan | Stars: Rishi Kapoor, Salman Khan, Ameesha Patel, Rati Agnihotri

Votes: 2,841

88. I Could Go on Singing (1963)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, Music

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon

Votes: 1,715

89. Xenia (2014)

Unrated | 134 min | Drama, Romance

Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.

Director: Panos H. Koutras | Stars: Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia, Giannis Stankoglou, Marisha Triantafyllidou

Votes: 4,352 | Gross: $0.00M

90. Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 200 min | Drama

The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of ... See full summary »

Director: Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | Stars: Paola Cortellesi, Massimo Poggio, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Alberto Cracco

Votes: 353

91. Texas, Adios (1966)

Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Drama, Western

A Texan sheriff and his younger brother travel across the border into Mexico to confront the man who killed their father.

Director: Ferdinando Baldi | Stars: Franco Nero, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Elisa Montés, José Guardiola

Votes: 1,863

92. Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant (2015)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A self-anointed 'renegade' male flight attendant must save the day when the airline he works for tries to eliminate flight attendants as a cost-cutting measure.

Director: Sam Friedlander | Stars: Mark Feuerstein, Jessica Lowndes, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Fitzgerald

Votes: 1,569

93. Ankur: The Seedling (1974)

131 min | Drama

Belonging to a lower caste, Lakshmi and her deaf-mute husband Kishtayya serve the landlord's son, Surya. When Surya's young wife finds out about his affair with Lakshmi, they all find themselves at crossroads.

Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Sadhu Meher, Anant Nag, Priya Tendulkar

Votes: 1,673

94. Malkoçoglu Cem Sultan (1970)

82 min | Action, Adventure, History

While Beyazit was sitting on the throne, his brother Cem Sultan, who opposed him, was defeated and had to flee. Taking orders from Beyazit, Malkoçoglu goes after Cem.

Directors: Remzi A. Jöntürk, Hasan Sasanpour | Stars: Cüneyt Arkin, Pouri Baneai, Cihangir Gaffari, Feri Cansel

Votes: 631

95. Aashiqui (1990)

Not Rated | 152 min | Musical, Drama, Romance

Rahul and Anu fall in love with each other, but before they unite, they have their own problems to deal with.

Director: Mahesh Bhatt | Stars: Rahul Roy, Anu Agarwal, Avtar Gill, Tom Alter

Votes: 2,042

96. King Lear (2008 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 156 min | Drama

Sir Ian McKellen gives a tour-de-force performance as Shakespeare's tragic monarch, in this special television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of the playwright's most enduring and haunting works.

Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Ian McKellen, William Gaunt, Philip Winchester, Ben Meyjes

Votes: 663

97. Sautela (2007–2008)

20 min | Drama

A young NRI came to know that his father was alive, whom he had thought dead since childhood.

Stars: Mukesh Khanna, Krushna Abhishek, Nishigandha Wad, Sumeet Pathak

98. The Long Haul (1957)

Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After leaving his U.S. Army job in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organized-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry.

Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Gene Anderson

Votes: 999

99. The Bastard (1978)

240 min | Drama, History, Romance

When Phillipe Charboneau, the illegitimate son of an English duke, travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee ... See full summary »

Stars: Andrew Stevens, Olivia Hussey, Barry Sullivan, Mark Neely

Votes: 360

100. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)

Not Rated | 317 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.

Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, João Arrais

Votes: 3,612 | Gross: $0.11M