Una chica muy segura de sí misma a la que todo el mundo llama "Dumplin" (Danielle Macdonald) comienza a trabajar en una cadena de comida rápida, donde conoce a un chico que le gusta. Al parecer, la atracción entre ambos es mutua, aunque Dumplin comienza a tener dudas sobre su atractivo físico. Decidida a remediar este problema, y también con el propósito de ganarse el respeto de su madre, una antigua "reina de la belleza" (Jennifer Aniston), Dumplin se inscribe en un concurso de belleza.

La única esperanza de libertad para dos presos evadidos pasa por asumir la identidad de los propietarios de una destartalada furgoneta que roban en su huida. Se tendrán que hacer pasar por una pareja gay de productores de desfiles de belleza a los que se espera en la pequeña población de Happy, en mitad de Texas. Allí serán tratados como reyes, ya que los habitantes de Happy están desesperados por lograr que las jovencitas del pueblo consigan clasificarse para optar al título del desfile. Happy se convertirá en terrero abonado para los embaucadores.

Los Hoover son una familia conflictiva: el abuelo esnifa cocaína y suelta palabrotas, el padre da cursos sobre el éxito con estrepitoso fracaso, la madre no da abasto, el tío se recupera de un suicidio frustrado al ser abandonado por su novio, el hijo adolescente lee a Nietzsche y se niega a hablar, y la hija pequeña, Olive, gafotas y ligeramente gordinflona, quiere ser una belleza. Cuando un golpe de suerte lleva a Olive a ser invitada a participar en el muy competitivo concurso de 'Pequeña Miss Sunshine' en California, toda la familia Hoover se reúne para ir con ella. Se apilan en su oxidada furgoneta Volkswagen y se dirigen hacia el Oeste en un trágicómico periplo de tres días lleno de locas sorpresas que les lleva al gran debut de Olive, el cual cambiará a esta familia de inadaptados de una forma que nunca hubieran imaginado.

Una joven de Mississippi sueña con ganar el concurso de belleza de su localidad. (FILMAFFINITY)

Sátira con elementos de falso documental que retrata la vida de un habitante de una pequeña ciudad de California. (FILMAFFINITY)

In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes, transporting the viewer into rehearsals and dressing rooms as the drag queen subculture prepares for this big national beauty contest. Jack/Sabrina is the mistress of ceremonies, and their protégé, Miss Harlow, is in the competition. But, as the pageant approaches, the glamorous contestants veer from camaraderie to tension.

Marjory gana un premio de belleza en su ciudad y se encuentra desfilando como lady Godiva, aunque no del todo. Acaba compitiendo para el título mundial en Londres.

A former pageant queen embarks on an all-night adventure with four unlikely friends she meets at a women's shelter.

La rivalidad de las competidoras en un concurso de belleza se ve amenazada por un escándalo.

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.

The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger sister.

The role of women and tradition in Dine (Navajo) culture is explored through a young girl's quest for the Miss Navajo Nation crown.

A young queer girl is entered into an eerie beauty pageant, of unknown stakes, that ultimately turns against her.

The teenagers of a rural community are confronted by the not-so-charming realities of their hometown on the eve of its annual beauty pageant.

Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock'n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.

Moving between two extremes - the intimate verite drama of the Miss India pageant's rigorous beauty "bootcamp" and the intense regime of a militant Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls. The World Before Her delivers a provocative portrait of India and its current cultural conflicts during a key transitional era in the country's modern history.

Space Case follows Bobbie Almond, a social outcast who has dreams to escape her small town life. She has a ticket to Mars! But when Bobbie's ticket to a new life gets stolen by her super Preppy sister, she's forced down a road of conformity, to be a part of the town's Beauty pageant! Will she conform? Or will she bail and follow her dreams!

Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a history of the contest (which has run eccentrically since 1972) which was set up firstly as an excuse to have a good party, but has grown into a celebration of alternative lifestyles and sexualities. The documentary mixes archive footage, animated inserts, with talking head interviews and a fly-on-the-wall look at the organisation of the 2009 event

What happens if a regular housewife picks up in a local beauty contest - and wins? How will it be when the husband forbids her to go to the finals in Mallorca - but she is going anyway?

A beauty pageant contestant experiences strange visions.