Passions (1984)

Uma mãe abandona seu filho com um bilhete em uma limusine, mas o carro acaba sendo roubado e a criança é deixada em uma lata de lixo. Um vagabundo encontra o bebê e passa a cuidar dele. Cinco anos depois, a mulher tenta encontrar o filho perdido.

Em busca de imortalidade, o rei Luís XIV rouba a força vital de uma sereia, mas tudo se complica quando sua filha ilegítima cria laços com a criatura mágica.

Jovem rainha casada com rei insano começa a ter um caso extraconjugal com o médico da corte. Unidos, eles veem que compartilham as mesmas ideias a respeito do futuro de seu país e iniciam uma revolução.

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.

Esta é a história de uma triste realidade entre Lee Strobie (Robert Walker), o filho mal caráter de um fazendeiro, e seu irmão adotivo, o honesto Owen Daybright (Burt Lancaster). Lee enganou sua fiel esposa Jen (Joanne Dru) com uma moça da cidade (Sally Forrest) e teve um filho ilegítimo como resultado. Owen por ajudar a amante do irmão, é perseguido por engano pela família da moça para vingar a honra.

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

Este drama biográfico do diretor Mervyn LeRoy mereceu uma indicação ao Oscar de melhor filme por retratar com grande sensibilidade a vida da engajada dona de casa Edna Gladney (Greer Garson). Após passar por amargas experiências de vida, ela se casa com o texano Sam Gladney (Walter Pidgeon). O casal tem um filho, que morre precocemente. Ao mesmo tempo, Edna descobre que não poderá ter outra criança e assim decide se dedicar a algo para preencher sua vida. Ao observar que o tratamento dado às crianças órfãs e abandonadas não é exatamente o que poderia chamar de terno, ela abre uma casa de adoção e encaminha as crianças a lares onde possam ter uma vida digna.

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

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

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 in life – a promise that proves to have fatal consequences.

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.

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 then searches for the child she gave up.

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

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.

A group of soldiers led by then-Colonel Cenon Payawan (Cris Villanueva) attacks an NPA camp deep in the wilderness. Among those killed is a rebel woman carrying a child in a sling. Payawan adopts the child, and eighteen years later, the now-retired general and his wife are dealing with her rebellion. Then, her biological father Ka Ruben (an admirably committed Arnold Reyes) suddenly shows up at their doorstep, claiming that he has cancer, and that his dying wish is to get to know his daughter.

Christine, a village girl, raped by Jason Uqmadze, a local aristocrat, decides to take her own life but the villagers spot her body in the river and manage to save her. After the suicide fiasco, Christine befriends Sona, her alleged well-wisher in hope to start her life anew. Instead of helping her, as promised, Sona takes Christine to the brothel… Produced in the Russian Empire.

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

Giuseppe Verdi's one prologue, three act opera featuring libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito is performed before a live audience at Florence's Teatro Comunale in this release featuring the music of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under conductor Claudio Abbado, and starring Carlo Guelfi, Julian Konstantinov, and Karita Mattila.

Em meio a preparativos para um campeonato de basquete, baile e formatura, os namorados Troy Bolton e Gabriella Montez curtem cada momento, sabendo que a faculdade coloca o futuro de seu relacionamento em jogo. Um elaborado musical de primavera é apenas mais uma oportunidade para os dois Wildcats e seus colegas expressarem os medos e as esperanças para o futuro.