Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins...

The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated...

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs,...

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.

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...

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the...

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

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,...

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Gaber Ma'moun Nassar, a famous businessman with a good reputation among people, lives a quiet life with his wife and daughter. Throughout his whole...