Movies: Beauty standards

  • 2024
    The Substance

    The Substance (2024)

    The Substance

    7.22024HD

    A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself....

    The Substance
  • 2024
    Uglies

    Uglies (2024)

    Uglies

    5.92024HD

    In a futuristic dystopia with enforced beauty standards, a teen awaiting mandatory cosmetic surgery embarks on a journey to find her missing friend....

    Uglies
  • 2001
    Shallow Hal

    Shallow Hal (2001)

    Shallow Hal

    6.12001HD

    After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him int...

    Shallow Hal
  • 2000
    Miss Congeniality

    Miss Congeniality (2000)

    Miss Congeniality

    6.52000HD

    When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female Agent at the o...

    Miss Congeniality
  • 2008
    The Women

    The Women (2008)

    The Women

    5.12008HD

    The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary...

    The Women
  • 2022
    Por los pelos

    Por los pelos (2022)

    Por los pelos

    6.52022HD

    Juanjo (Antonio Pagudo) is a forty-year-old man who, despite not having low self-esteem due to his baldness, his wife, Inma (Eva Ugarte), obsessed with image and aesthetics, is in charge of making him complex about it. On the other hand, his friend S...

    Por los pelos
  • 2016
    Miss India America

    Miss India America (2016)

    Miss India America

    5.72016HD

    Lily is a winner, but when her boyfriend leaves her for a vapid beauty pageant queen, she gets the notion that winning the Miss India America title would bring him back. Since Lily is perfect in everything else she does, it should be a cinch...or so ...

    Miss India America
  • 2014
    Supervenus

    Supervenus (2014)

    Supervenus

    6.52014HD

    An update of our classic human anatomy....

    Supervenus
  • 1984
    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People

    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People (1984)

    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People

    5.51984HD

    An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in the wind and lets you be free. Lively tunes and witty narration accompany a quick-paced inventory of ...

    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People
  • 2023
    COMPLEXion

    COMPLEXion (2023)

    COMPLEXion

    02023HD

    "COMPLEXion is a documentary that aims to unpack the hegemony of skin color globally and challenge the archaic notions that exist surrounding it. Our mission is to defy toxic beauty standards through raw human stories."...

    COMPLEXion
  • 1925
    Ways to Strength and Beauty

    Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)

    Ways to Strength and Beauty

    7.11925HD

    The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing...

    Ways to Strength and Beauty
  • 2025
    True Beauty: Before

    True Beauty: Before (2025)

    True Beauty: Before

    02025HD

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    True Beauty: Before
  • 2022
    I Beg You to Like Me

    I Beg You to Like Me (2022)

    I Beg You to Like Me

    02022HD

    “I Beg You To Like Me”, serves as a testimony of individuals who felt oppressed about their body image for not meeting the standard beauty criteria, and demonstrates how a reckless language based on others’ physical appearance could turn violent. It ...

    I Beg You to Like Me
  • 1995
    Your Name in Cellulite

    Your Name in Cellulite (1995)

    Your Name in Cellulite

    21995HD

    A wickedly funny satire about the disparity between a woman's natural beauty and the ideal promoted by the mega-billion dollar advertising industry, this animated film shows us how far we will go to change the shape of our bodies to meet the demands ...

    Your Name in Cellulite
  • 2013
    Crowned Species

    Crowned Species (2013)

    Crowned Species

    42013HD

    A journalistic investigation, built not on rumors and assumptions, but on direct evidence, revealing the true mechanisms of podium coronations. Hidden camera footage of negotiations with the owners of the largest national beauty contests and an attem...

    Crowned Species
  • 2025
    True Beauty: After

    True Beauty: After (2025)

    True Beauty: After

    02025HD

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    True Beauty: After
  • 2015
    Lalin

    Lalin (2015)

    Lalin

    02015HD

    She tells Lalin's journey from Thailand to Japan. With the opportunity to study abroad, she flees to Sapporo, where no one knows her and can live under a new identity. Posing as a modern beauty, she becomes an idol on the internet and on social media...

    Lalin
  • 2019
    No Lye: An American Beauty Story

    No Lye: An American Beauty Story (2019)

    No Lye: An American Beauty Story

    02019HD

    A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America....

    No Lye: An American Beauty Story
  • 2021
    Beauty

    Beauty (2021)

    Beauty

    02021HD

    A look into how beauty standards affect self-image....

    Beauty
  • 2019
    To Be Beautiful

    To Be Beautiful (2019)

    To Be Beautiful

    02019HD

    The documentary explores issues of beauty and acceptance in a culture increasingly saturated with idealised and unattainable ideals of femininity. It is a story about the world of young girls in today's Latvia, based on conversations about girls' at...

    To Be Beautiful