Movies and TvShows featuring "parentage" theme.
When a teenage boy accidentally shoots and kills an innocent man, he goes on a crime spree to avoid capture. As the police close in, the boy becomes more desperate, leading to a media circus and a violent standoff.
The Bachelor Father is a comedy film about a bachelor who must take care of his nephew and finds love along the way.
In 1890s London, a fan's obsession with a mysterious woman leads to seduction, rumors, and a scandal that threatens her reputation and social standing. Love, deception, and high society collide in this comedic drama.
A 17th-century French pirate (Sterling Hayden) sides with an English noblewoman (Rhonda Fleming) who's posing as a pirate.
Kim, an orphaned boy living on the streets of colonial India, finds himself caught in a web of espionage and deception. With his unique abilities and skills, Kim becomes entangled in a dangerous game between British secret service agents and Russian spies. As he navigates through perilous adventures, Kim discovers his true identity and embarks on a thrilling journey to uncover his destiny.
A young American woman travels to Europe and becomes involved in espionage and a false accusation during World War I.
Judge Priest, a small-town judge in post-bellum Kentucky, deals with various challenges including love triangles, family issues, and racial stereotypes. With a mentally challenged man as his friend and a romantic rivalry with a neighbor, Judge Priest navigates the complexities of maintaining justice and harmony in his community.
In a small Ohio town, an unplanned pregnancy leads to revelations of family secrets and the hardships faced by the main characters. The plot explores themes of incest, promiscuity, and the complexities of familial relationships.
A prison inmate obtains his release from prison in order to rescue his daughter from the clutches of her unscrupulous mother's plot to implicate the girl in a blackmail scheme.
A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested. In prison she meets a kindly woman, who is married to a judge. The woman, unbeknownst to the girl, is her mother, and adopts her. The companion of the deceased aunt, in the midst of a ball, denounces the mother and reveals her secret to the judge and guests. The judge will not forgive his wife, so the mother and daughter leave and work among the slums to benefit humanity. Eventually, the judge relents, and seeks his wife for forgiveness, but he is too late.
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
Young Hindu woman Radha, becomes best friends with Captain Raymond Townsend during his service in India, but he soon goes back to England to tend to the estate of an uncle who has just died. Then, Ramlan, the sword maker who raised Radha, is arrested for taking part in an anti-British uprising, and before he goes to jail, he decides to tell Radha the story of her birth, her real father, Captain Brooke, died of a drug overdose, and her destitute mother then entrusted her to Ramlan. After learning about her background, Radha goes to England to claim her rightful inheritance from the estate of her late grandfather, who is also Raymond's uncle. Raymond is delighted to discover that his Hindu friend is really a white woman, and after dividing the estate with Radha, he brings the fortune back together by marrying her.
That Certain Woman follows the journey of a woman who faces various challenges in her life, including the complexities of love, the pain of loss, and the burden of secrets. Through her struggles, she discovers strength and resilience that helps her overcome the obstacles that come her way.
When Cindy Lane becomes pregnant, Mark Brierson, the father, refuses to marry her. Instead, Brierson romances Azalia Deering, whose father, General Deering, owns the town bank. Brierson misuses bank funds, but the bank is saved by Jack Rose, a wealthy farmer. Cindy's father Zeb vows to kill her lover, but she refuses to reveal the man's identity.
A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French man the daughter, now grown up, attracted to a descendant of that same Parisian as well?
A group of friends embarks on a road trip to Sweden for a wedding party. Along the way, they encounter various mishaps and challenges, testing their friendship and revealing hidden truths about themselves. The journey becomes a transformative experience filled with laughter, heartache, and self-discovery.
A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind. The boy, Byron Bennett, grows up, and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe. To make enough money to get out of town, they teach the local fire department how to put on a play. While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act, one of the troupe tries to seduce her. Byron, knowing what the lecher is up to, even if Grace doesn't, follows the pair and chokes the man senseless.
Olive Muir, a haughty society girl, objects when Alice Prentice, a girl of lower station, comes to visit her family. After Alice's drunken father comes to visit the Muir home, Olive learns to her horror that she is adopted and that Prentice is her real father.
The Strongest is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Renée Adorée, Carlo Liten, Harrison Hunter, Beatrice Noyes, Florence Malone, and Jean Gauthier DeTrigny. It is based on the 1919 French novel Les Plus Fort by Georges Clemenceau.
At a London auction, Princess Sonia bids against her husband, exiled Prince Victor, for a Corot landscape in which incriminating letters Sonia wrote are hidden, but it is bought by Michael Lanyard, suspected of being the mysterious, international thief "The Lone Wolf." After Lanyard gives Sonia the letters, she divorces Victor, marries Lanyard and dies after bearing their daughter Sonia. Years later, Sonia, who thinks she is the daughter of the Princess' maid, is found by Victor, now the leader of an underworld gang of Oriental crooks and Bolsheviks. Saying he is her father, Victor brings her to his home, hoping to entice Lanyard to make an appearance.