Hal Larsen es un muchacho superficial que sólo encuentra bellas a las chicas que parecen supermodelos. Sin embargo, después de ser sometido a una sesión de hipnosis por un conocido gurú, sólo será capaz de ver la belleza interior de las mujeres. Rosemary, una chica obesa y bondadosa, se cruzará en su camino y Hal se enamorará locamente de ella.
Cuando el objetivo de un asesino en serie es la ganadora del concurso de Miss Estados Unidos, el FBI decide enviar una agente infiltrada a participar en el concurso. La mejor candidata que encuentran para la misión es Gracie Hart, una agente de modales un tanto hoscos y poco femeninos. Aparece como Miss New Jersey, y, ante su total falta de glamur, los organizadores deciden buscarle un representante que le enseñe todos los trucos del mundo de la pasarela.
Remake del film de 1939 de George Cukor. La vida de Mary Haines es aparentemente perfecta: una preciosa casa en Connecticut, una maravillosa hija de doce años, un marido con éxito en Wall Street, un buen trabajo como diseñadora. Tiene, además, buenas amigas: Sylvia Fowler, que disfruta de su soltería como editora de la revista Cachet; Edie Cohen, una excéntrica madre, y la escritora Alex Fisher, una glamurosa lesbiana. La vida de Mary dará un vuelco cuando Sylvie se entera de que Crystal Allen, una dependienta de perfumería, tiene una aventura con el marido de Mary.
Quedarse calvo sigue siendo un trauma para muchos hombres. Juanjo, Sebas y Rayco son tres ejemplos, entre millones, de cómo la alopecia, conlleva también la caída de la autoestima. Pero si bien la alopecia no diferencia ni entiende de estratos sociales, su solución, sí. Y es que, lo que hasta ahora era prohibitivo para muchos, Turquía lo ha hecho accesible para todos con su turismo capilar low cost, convirtiéndose así en el nuevo maná de los calvos. Juanjo, Sebas y Rayco se embarcarán en una aventura en la que descubrirán que su problema no está tanto encima de su cabeza, si no dentro.
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 she thinks. The pageant world isn't just pretty smiles and high heels, and her main competition, Sonia, gives her a run for her money.
A documentary about body image and the industry leaders challenging society's unrealistic and dangerous standards of beauty.
"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."
A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America.
An update of our classic human anatomy.
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 as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.
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 platforms. The reality is that Lalin hides his face every day with a mask, hiding from the world and striving for self-acceptance.
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 attempt to answer the question of why these people are not yet in prison. Famous people on the jury are not a guarantee of fair judging. Irrefutable evidence of the corruption of the so-called “stars” who elect the next Miss and Mrs. The collection and subsequent theft of funds for charity is a side business of the owners of fraudulent shows. What actually awaits the titled Misses after purchasing the prize? And what do children's beauty pageants turn out to be like for young participants?
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' attitudes towards the world and their place in it.
“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 aims to achieve much more than simply stating the obvious, which is that we are not obligated to submit to the ideal beauty standards dictated by the media, consumerism and the beauty industry. The intimate stories about one’s own body image as told by women, men, disabled people and LGBT individuals make it apparent that any one of us could end up being a victim and a perpetrator at the same time. What if, this iconic body image is nothing but an unobtainable fallacy? “Is it not yet the time to openly discuss the conventional perception of beauty, and step up onto the catwalk in our actual likeness?
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 of an impossible image. But the picture-perfect exterior can be maintained by our heroine only if she restrains her body's natural spontaneity. YOUR NAME IN CELLULITE visually ponders at what point the body will say "Enough is enough!" and take matters into its own hands.
A look into how beauty standards affect self-image.