Movies and TvShows featuring "beauty-standards" theme.
In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
True Beauty is a Korean drama series based on the webtoon of the same name. It follows the story of Im Joo Kyung, a high school girl who is insecure about her appearance. She becomes skilled at makeup and transforms herself into a beautiful girl. With her newfound beauty, she gains popularity and catches the attention of the popular boy in school. However, she struggles to keep her true identity a secret and navigate the complexities of high school life.
Hal is a shallow man who only values physical beauty in women. However, after being hypnotized by Tony Robbins, he can only see inner beauty. He falls in love with Rosemary, an overweight woman, seeing her as slender and beautiful. When the hypnotism is broken, Hal starts to avoid Rosemary, but realizes his true feelings for her. He reconciles with Rosemary and decides to join her on her Peace Corps mission.
In a futuristic dystopia with enforced beauty standards, a teen awaiting mandatory cosmetic surgery embarks on a journey to find her missing friend.
My ID is Gangnam Beauty is a TV show that revolves around the life of a girl named Kang Mi Rae. Mi Rae, who was bullied for her looks when she was younger, undergoes plastic surgery before entering college to change her appearance. However, even after the surgery, she still faces challenges in fitting in and dealing with people's prejudices. The show explores themes of beauty standards, popularity, and the complexities of relationships.
“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?
An FBI agent named Gracie Hart is put on a desk job after a mission goes wrong. She is then chosen to go undercover as a contestant in the Miss United States beauty pageant to stop a terrorist group from bombing the event. With the help of a pageant coach, she learns how to act and dress like a contestant. As she investigates, she becomes friends with the other contestants and uncovers a plot to murder one of them. In the end, she stops the terrorists and is chosen as Miss Congeniality.
Once bullied for her looks, Jugyeong transforms herself using the art of makeup. When she joins a new school with a True Beauty goddess competition, offering winners the chance of recruitment by entertainment agencies, she instantly becomes a top candidate! But her new identity is at stake when heartthrob Suho Lee accidentally sees her bare face. Will her elite status be short-lived?
María is a thirty-year-old from Madrid who is dissatisfied with her existence and, despite her efforts to make an artistic career a reality, she has no choice but to end up working in a flower shop in her neighbourhood.
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.
The Women follows the lives of a group of women in New York City as they navigate through various relationships, careers, and personal challenges. The story highlights themes of friendship, love, and the complexities of modern womanhood.
Queen of the Ring is a TV show about a young woman who discovers a magical ring that transforms her into a beautiful and successful model. With the help of the ring, she navigates love, self-discovery, and the challenges of the fashion industry. Along the way, she faces jealousy, rivalries, and family secrets, while also tackling social problems and beauty standards. This romantic drama explores themes of love, forgiveness, and personal transformation.
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 relaxers, gels, and curlers. This short film has become essential for discussions of racism, African American cinema, and empowerment.
Supervenus is a dark and satirical animated short film that highlights the pressure and punishment faced by women to conform to modern society's beauty standards. It follows the story of a woman whose pursuit of eternal youth leads her to undergo various surgeries, but the consequences of her actions are not what she expects.
Miss India America is a comedy-drama film that follows the journey of a young Indian-American woman named Lily who enters a beauty pageant to win back her ex-boyfriend. With the help of her best friend, she trains and prepares for the competition, facing challenges and embracing her roots along the way. Set in California, the movie explores themes of identity, cultural expectations, and beauty standards.
'How to Love Without Losing Myself' despite the problems of career, dating, and friends. The story is about a shy chubby student struggling with low self-esteem and body image issues. The story follows her journey of self-acceptance as she navigates friendships and relationships. With the support of her friends learns to embrace her unique qualities and discovers the true meaning of self-love in a society that often values external beauty.
Thea, a 200-pound late bloomer, goes to great lengths and transforms herself for a chance to be with her lifelong crush, Lucas.
Miss Naked Beauty is a short-lived, six-episode reality television show produced by Maverick Television, aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. The show, presented by Gok Wan and Myleene Klass, was conceived as a radical "reality" take on beauty pageants. Some 7000 women applied to become the "ultimate 21st century beauty queen". The focus of the program is on natural and diverse beauty, as opposed to surgically "enhanced" and conformist concepts of beauty. In the first episode, hundreds of remaining applicants were whittled down to just twelve finalists, by a panel of judges composed of fashion stylist Gok Wan, musician Myleene Klass, magazine editor James Brown, journalist Kathryn Flett and musician, actress and TV presenter Mica Paris. In subsequent episodes, various issues were explored such as body image, plastic surgery, self-esteem, modern versus Renaissance and earlier notions of beauty, eating disorders, over-reliance on makeup, the fashion industry. Meanwhile, the programme also progressed as a pageant, eliminating contestants in typical reality TV style, down to five finalists.
A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America.