Movies: Beauty standards
- 2024
The Substance (2024)
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A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself....
- 2024
Uglies (2024)
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In a futuristic dystopia with enforced beauty standards, a teen awaiting mandatory cosmetic surgery embarks on a journey to find her missing friend....
- 2001
Shallow Hal (2001)
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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...
- 2000
Miss Congeniality (2000)
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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...
- 2008
The Women (2008)
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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...
- 2022
Por los pelos (2022)
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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...
- 2016
Miss India America (2016)
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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 ...
- 2014
Supervenus (2014)
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An update of our classic human anatomy....
- 1984
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People (1984)
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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 ...
- 2023
COMPLEXion (2023)
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"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."...
- 1925
Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)
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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...
- 2025
True Beauty: Before (2025)
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- 2022
I Beg You to Like Me (2022)
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“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 ...
- 1995
Your Name in Cellulite (1995)
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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 ...
- 2013
Crowned Species (2013)
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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...
- 2025
True Beauty: After (2025)
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- 2015
Lalin (2015)
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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...
- 2019
No Lye: An American Beauty Story (2019)
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A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America....
- 2021
Beauty (2021)
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A look into how beauty standards affect self-image....
- 2019
To Be Beautiful (2019)
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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...