Una nova entrega de la saga de terror 'Scream' que seguirà una dona que torna a la seva ciutat natal per intentar descobrir qui ha estat cometent una sèrie de crims atroços.

Una mare soltera i sense recursos es veu obligada a abandonar el seu nadó. Casualment és descobert per en Charlot, un rodamón sensible que, encara que en un principi malda per desfer-se'n, aviat n'està molt d'ell. Cinc anys després, tots dos són inseparables i el noiet ajuda activament en Charlot a preparar els seus tripijocs per guanyar-se la vida. Mentrestant, la mare s'ha convertit en una rica i famosa cantant. Malgrat el seu èxit, l'aflicció pel seu nadó perdut encara hi perviu i es dedica a ajudar els nens més necessitats.

The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court.

La recerca desesperada de la immortalitat del Rei Lluís XIV el porta a capturar una sirena per robar-li la seva energia vital, fet que es complica encara més quan la seva filla il·legítima descobreix la criatura.

Res és el que sembla a la mansió anglesa de Godsford Park, i el que comença com una tranquil·la reunió de cap de setmana per a una partida de caça convocada per Sir William McCordle i la seva esposa es transforma en un niu d'escurçons on algú serà assassinat. El grup de sospitosos és tan eclèctic com la reunió, i tant els nobles del pis de dalt com els plebeus de la part de baix semblen tenir alguna cosa a amagar.

Per a la jove Carolina Matilde, casada sent una adolescent amb el rei de Dinamarca Christian VII, és un horror viure amb un marit ciclotímic i estrafolari que proposa desmesures com nomenar al seu gos membre honorari del Consell d'Estat, o que circulin a Copenhaguen a la nit carruatges buits per recollir als borratxos. Així les coses, Carolina es rendeix als encants del metge personal del rei, un intel·lectual progressista que es veurà dividit entre la seva lleialtat al rei, el seu amor a la reina i la seva oportunitat de convertir una Dinamarca encara medieval en un país il·lustrat.

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 children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.

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 people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

Quan Delia Lovell (Miriam Hopkins) està punt de casar-se amb Jim Ralston, el seu antic xicot Clement Spender (George Brent) apareix, i llavors la seva germana Charlotte (Bette Davis) intentarà calmar-lo, alhora que sabrem que també ella està enamorada del visitant , qui aviat s'anirà a la guerra deixant-li com a herència un record etern.

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, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.

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

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

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 her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.

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 marry a girl beneath his own station. The promise proves to have fatal consequences when Karl Victor falls in love with a young governess, whom he impregnates but refuses to marry as this would break his oath to his father. Many years later, he is a highly respected president of the court about to deal out judgment to a young woman who has killed her new-born child. The young woman turns out to be his own illegitimate daughter, and Karl Victor is suddenly faced with the choice of doing his professional duty or making amends for his past misdeeds. (Stumfilm.dk)

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 of the real father of the child, until the child real father, also an upper caste Hindu acknowledges paternity. As the story unfolds, the real father becomes agitated by guilt and anguish and then finally questions his previous actions. The film ends with the Masters own resolutions and true acceptance of his own child and self.

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, she searches for the child she gave up.

The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.

A single mother struggles to raise her only daughter on her own.

Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.