Highest-Rated Movies about 'Illegitimate Daughter'

Into the Wild (2007), After the Wedding (2006), Trade (2007), Pakeezah (1971), The Judge (2014), Chocolat (2000), Peyton Place (1957), Exotica (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Illegitimate Daughter movies.

#16. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

Storyline: John Truscott goes to Borneo to work with the Iban. He reports to Henry Bullard, who gives him a "sleeping dictionary"--one of the locals who teaches him the local language and culture. And who he gives John is Selima. And while teaching him, John finds himself attracted to her. And we says it's not allowed, both the locals and Bullard forbid him to be in a relationship with Selima. But he defies them which has dire consequences.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: heavy rain, three word title, female frontal nudity, sex scene, colony, pig, pillow talk ...

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#17. Saratoga Trunk (1945)

Storyline: On the death of her mother, the vivacious Clio Dulaine (Ingrid Bergman) returns from Paris, France to her childhood home in New Orleans, Louisiana to seek revenge for the humiliation her mother suffered there from her father's wife's family. She also plans to marry a rich man to attain the status and respectability her mother never had, but falls for Texas gambler Colonel Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper) instead. When he leaves New Orleans for the horse racing season at Saratoga Springs, she follows him there to seek her fortune - or someone else's.—Joyce Bradsher <joyceable@aol.com>

Plot Keywords: based on novel, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, new orleans louisiana, opera, passion, poker ...

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#18. A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)

Storyline: Michael McCann is a man who feels totally betrayed by the world, after his wife revealed to him that their child was not his. A few years after his break-up we find him living alone in a small town. But, everything in his miserable life changes when he adopts a little girl whose mother died outside his house. After several years, the real father returns to claim the girl from Michael, thinking that she will be an advantage for his political career.—Chris Makrozahopoulos <makzax@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, drunk driving, expectant father, father daughter relationship, friend, greed, heroin ...

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#19. That Hagen Girl (1947)

Storyline: Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>

Plot Keywords: older man younger woman relationship, dancer, chicken, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, attempted drowning, adoption, teenage girl ...

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#20. The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

Storyline: Isabel Archer, an American heiress and free thinker travels to Europe to find herself. She tactfully rebuffs the advances of Caspar Goodwood, another American who has followed her to England. Her cousin, Ralph Touchett, wise but sickly becomes a soulmate of sorts for her. She makes an unfortunate alliance with the creepy Madame Merle who leads her to make an even more unfortunate alliance with Gilbert Osmond, a smooth but cold collector of Objets' de art who seduces her with an intense but unattainable sexuality. Isabel marries Osmond only to realize she's just another piece of art for his collection and that Madame Merle and Osmond are lovers who had hatched a diabolical scheme to take Isabel's fortune. Isabel's only comfort is the innocent daughter of Osmond, Pansy, but even that friendship is spoiled when Countess Gemini, Osmond's sister, reveals the child's true parentage. Isabel finally breaks free of Osmond and returns to Ralph's bedside, where, while breathing his last, they both realize how truly connected they are, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.—Teresa B. <O'Donnell@worldnet.att.net>

Plot Keywords: based on novel, father son relationship, betrayal, freedom, dying, husband wife relationship, friend ...

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#21. The Sound and the Fury (1959)

Storyline: Loosely based on the William Faulkner novel, this movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Howard passes the time in a bottle; his brother Bengy is child in a man's body; sister Caddy has come crawling home after years of being kept by a string of "admirers." Only Jason, the cruel, cold-hearted adopted head of the family, and Quentin, who was abandoned at birth by Caddy, have the fire and the fury needed to put the family back on its feet again.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>

Plot Keywords: mississippi, southern u.s., based on novel, mental illness, deep south, emotional abuse, dysfunctional family ...

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#22. A Day Without a Mexican (2004)

Storyline: A thick fog surrounds California's borders, communication beyond state lines is cut off, and the Mexicans disappear: workers, spouses, and business owners are missing. Cars are abandoned in the street, food is left cooking on the stove. We meet the wife of a musician who's gone, a state Senator whose maid doesn't show up for work, and a farm owner whose produce is ripe and unpicked. A scientist asks any Mexicans who haven't disappeared to volunteer for genetic experiments: a female newscaster and the daughter of the musician may be the only missing links around. Why them? And where have all the Mexicans gone? Even the border guards grieve. The state and its economy grind to a halt.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: foreman, female musician, father son relationship, fast food, farm worker, false teeth, child in peril ...

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