En gang hårfjerning på benene, godt med læbestift og en ladt pistol. FBI-agen Gracie Hart går undercover som en håbefuld aspirant til titlen som den næste Miss USA, men Gracie er ikke just skabt til skønhedskonkurrencer. Sandra Bukllock spiller med stor udstråling i "Agent Catwalk" og viser sit store komiske talent i rollen som agenten, der giver den som skønhedsdronning for at få ram på en terrorist, der har udset sig skønhedskonkurrencen som mål. Michael Caine spiller på glimrende vis den frustrerede konsulent, som er hyret til at fovandle den barske FBI-agent til en ophøjet skønhed. Og Benjamin Bratt, Candice Bergen, William Shatner og Ernie Hudson scorer også point på morskabskontoen i denne store biograf-succes. Masser af grin og raffineret sarkasme. Et rent hit!
Hal Larson (Jack Black) får af det råd af sin døende far, at han kun skal gå efter lækre og barmfagre kvinder. Som voksen sætter den halvkiksede Hal sine standarder meget højt, og bliver derfor afvist af alle de kvinder han forsøger at indynde sig hos. En dag sidder Hal fast i en elevator sammen med verdens førende selvhjælpsguru, og han hypnotiserer Hal til i stedet kun at gå efter den indre skønhed hos kvinder. Nu er Hal helt forandret, og han forelsker sig i Rosemary (Gwyneth Paltrow). Hun er ekstremt overvægtig - men når Hal ser på hende, ser han kun sin idealkvinde! Problemet kommer da Hal bliver revet ud af hypnosen - kan han stadig elske Rosemary til trods for hendes store omfang?
De bruger formuer på designershopping. De har faste pladser hos skønhedssalonen og på første række til alle de fashionable modeshows. Og så har de den perfekte kur mod knuste hjerter: Hævn! Velkommen til det Manhattan, du drømmer om at være en del af! Fyldt med glitz, gossip og girlfriends, som aldrig svigter.
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.
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 Sebas (Carlos Librado "Nene") is affected by his lack of hair and is willing to do whatever it takes to regain his younger version, something that affects his ex-wife, Sofía (Amaia Salamanca) , and their daughters. Ready for anything, both get into a little trouble to get the money to allow them to travel to Turkey and have a hair transplant. In Istanbul they meet Rayco (Tomy Aguilera), a young reggaeton singer who is having great success, but after discovering his alopecia at a concert, he needs an urgent hair transplant. In this way, the three of them will try to seek happiness through aesthetics, but perhaps they will discover that there is something far beyond the physical.
"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."
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.
An update of our classic human anatomy.
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?
A documentary about body image and the industry leaders challenging society's unrealistic and dangerous standards of beauty.
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.
A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America.
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.
“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 look into how beauty standards affect self-image.
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.
