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Miss Congeniality(2000)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Crime, Action
3.3/5 (with 1,698 votes)

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 office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.

Little Miss Sunshine(2006)

R
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 3,112 votes)

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

Drop Dead Gorgeous(1999)

PG-13
| 1h 38min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 151 votes)

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

Misbehaviour(2020)

1h 47min | Drama, History, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 114 votes)

A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.

The Entertainer(1960)

1h 36min | Drama, Music
3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Carry On Girls(1973)

1h 28min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 26 votes)

Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.

No Contest(1995)

R
| 1h 38min | Drama, Action, Crime
2.5/5 (with 7 votes)

A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a kick-boxing actress, is the host of the show, and the thorn in the terrorists side.

Franswa Sharl(2009)

14min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Keeping the position of number one son requires a certain amount of ingenuity. Twelve year old Greg has inherited his father's competitive streak. On a family holiday to Fiji they have different ideas about where Greg should focus his talents. When his creative pursuits fail to amuse his father Greg goes to bizarre lengths to win him back.

The Great American Beauty Contest(1973)

1h 14min | TV Movie, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists.

Directed by Robert Day - With Joanna Cameron

Dreamland(2006)

PG-13
| 1h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.

Beauties at War(2009)

1h 29min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 17 votes)

A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.

Twenty 20(2008)

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Advocate Ramesh saves Devan from a murder case. Later, he realize Devan was the actual culprit. Ramesh tries for a payback, unaware of Devan's real intentions and the reason for the murder.

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Die Beautiful(2016)

3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man.

Directed by Jun Lana - With Paolo Ballesteros

The Case of the Lucky Legs(1935)

NR
| 1h 17min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

Directed by Archie Mayo - With Warren William

Miss India America(2016)

2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

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.

Directed by Ravi Kapoor

Picking Peaches(1924)

NR
| 22min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...

The British Guide to Showing Off(2011)

1h 38min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

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.

Directed by Jes Benstock - With Andrew Logan, Brian Eno, Zandra Rhodes, Richard O'Brien, Julian Clary, Ruby Wax, ...

Ella Cinders(1926)

NR
| 1h 15min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Beauty on Parade(1950)

1h 6min | Drama

Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title in order to marry Jeffrey Woodstock. She hopes to realize her past ambitions for fame and fortune through her daughter Kay, whom she persuades to enter a local beauty contest. Kay wins and is interviewed by reporter Gil McRoberts, who advises her to get married and settle down. Jeffrey is very upset with his wife's and daughter's passion for beauty contests and, when Kay enters the national contest, he informs Marian that she must choose between him and her chase after empty honors for Kay.

Directed by Lew Landers

Juke Joint(1947)

1h 8min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.

Directed by Spencer Williams

Night of Evil(1962)

1h 28min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A young woman's rise to fame after she wins a beauty contest is cut short when she marries an ex-convict.

The American Venus(1926)

NR
| 1h 27min | Comedy

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the employ of Hugo Niles and goes to work for Gray, persuading Mary to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, with the intention of using her to endorse her father's cold cream should she win. Mary breaks her engagement with Horace. When it appears that she will win the contest, Hugo lures her home on the pretext that her father is ill, and she misses the contest. Chip and Mary return to Atlantic City, discovering that the new Miss America has told the world that she owes all her success to Gray's cold cream. On this note, Chip and Mary decide to get married.

Miss(1986)

1h 35min | Drama, Comedy

Three gangsters smuggle a microfilm with passport data from West Germany to their buyer from Middle East, which happens to be crucial thing for the security of European Community. On their way through Yugoslavia, they try to hide the microfilm in the Miss Universum's purse who pays visit to the country at its national beauty contest. The problems arise when the microfilm accidentally finds itself in the possession of one of the competitors, unbeknown-st to her. The criminals try to get in possession of the microfilm, however a brave journalist who came because of the contest prevents them of doing so.

Directed by Aleksandar Husic - With Dragan Nikolić, Maja Sabljić, Velimir Bata Živojinović, Dragan Zarić, Stevo Žigon, Olivera Marković, ...

Iris(2017)

20min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

During the war of the Portuguese overseas colonies, Íris Maria, an 18-year-old Portuguese girl born on a small island in Mozambique won the titles of Miss Mozambique and Miss Portugal 1972. This is her story.

Mister(2019)

23min | Music
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Georgie and Stan are two friends living in Lens. Georgie dreams of the stage and Stan of cinema. When Georgie learns that his idol will be present at the "Monsieur Pas-de-Calais" competition, he asks Stan, who is shooting the video of the event, to help him to enter the competition. But the rush of events will bring to light the underlying tensions of their relationship.

Le ambiziose(1961)

1h 30min | Comedy

Thirty girls arrive in a seaside town to participate in a beauty contest. Marina has no ambitions of victory: she only wants to have the sewing machine promised to each participant.

Goldie Gets Along(1933)

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.

Little Miss Westie(2019)

1h 18min | Documentary

Ren & Luca chronicles a year in the life of two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, a local beauty pageant, and transitioning in the Trump era.

Intimate Diary of Artists Models(1963)

1h 19min
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Pretty Old(2012)

1h 25min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When 30 women aged 67 - 84 from across America and around the world descend on Fall River, Massachusetts to compete in the 30th anniversary Ms. Senior Sweetheart Pageant, hilarity and heartbreak ensue.

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