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7.8
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78
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76
/7586/
4.2
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91
/216/
91
/45118/
80
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cc age 16+

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
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.
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Kanopy
74
7.2
/1505/
69
/61/
62
/30/
3.8
/8038/
96
/25/
65
/4/
78
/4/

The Queen (1968)
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.
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73
7.1
/2753/
62
/49/
58
/41/
3.7
/3114/
100
/18/
70
/53/
79
/11/

Smile (1975)
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy?
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Starz
71
6.5
/2363/
69
/141/
64
/34/
3.5
/8947/
99
/153/
56
/44/
73
/27/
cc age 14+

Miss Juneteenth (2020)
Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.
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Netflix
70
6.5
/39599/
69
/2311/
67
/1422/
3.1
/102191/
86
/65/
72
/235/
53
/16/
cc age 13+

Dumplin' (2018)
To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
6.4
/11563/
66
/633/
64
/290/
3.3
/16748/
87
/104/
58
/27/
62
/15/
cc age 13+

Misbehaviour (2020)
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
6.1
/2504/
54
/23/
56
/26/
3.2
/998/
82
/11/
52
/48/
58
/18/

Miss Firecracker (1989)
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before. Despite a lack of support from those close to her Carnelle remains determined. She enlists the help of a seamstress to outfit her for the competition, while rebuffing the advances of predatory men, as she aims to bring home the crown.
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64
6.3
/10565/
63
/184/
56
/123/
3.1
/2700/
81
/54/
55
/254/
62
/31/

Happy, Texas (1999)
Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.
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Criterion Channel
70
61
7.1
/4055/
71
/48/
62
/53/
3.6
/2738/
71
/14/
74
/55/
70
/10/

The Entertainer (1960)
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
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60
6.7
/44771/
71
/940/
64
/413/
3.9
/134560/
47
/73/
75
/2547/
28
/28/
cc age 14+

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
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.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
58
6.4
/245050/
67
/8200/
65
/4109/
3.4
/406377/
42
/115/
69
/19643/
43
/20/
cc age 13+

Miss Congeniality (2000)
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.
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62
44
6.3
/2564/
62
/51/
60
/34/
3.3
/389/
67
/15/
65
/367/
57
/5/

Dreamland (2006)
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.
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57
44
5.8
/3423/
63
/99/
56
/60/
2.8
/1393/
55
/619/

Carry On Girls (1973)
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.
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43
6.4
/1053/
73
/92/
71
/158/
3.1
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Miss (2020)
A young man seeking his sexual identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.
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43
7.6
/882/
82
/29/
69
/14/
3.6
/615/
100
/7/
79
/17/
77
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cc age 14+

The World Before Her (2012)
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.
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Sun Nxt
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41
6.8
/2305/
66
/55/
61
/29/
3.2
/2274/

Twenty 20 (2008)
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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Amazon Prime Video
78
40
6.8
/358/
80
/3/
56
/5/
100
/11/
81
/17/
85
/5/
cc age 16+

Served Like a Girl (2017)
Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of stranded homeless women veterans by entering a competition that unexpectedly catalyzes moving events in their own lives.
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72
33
7.5
/1047/
79
/25/
62
/15/
3.7
/6278/

Die Beautiful (2016)
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.
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Netflix
59
25
5.2
/204/
57
/18/
67
/16/
3.1
/453/
cc age 14+

Miss Italia Mustn't Die (2025)
Behind the glitz of Miss Italia, director Patrizia Mirigliani fights to save the iconic pageant, now wavering amid scandals and changing beauty standards.
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Criterion Channel
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24
6.0
/724/
45
/6/
62
/18/
3.3
/358/
80
/5/
38
/5/

Plucking the Daisy (1956)
Due to an urgent need of money, aspiring writer Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest. Her new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a reporter by profession, covers the contest for his magazine.
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22
5.5
/1136/
58
/38/
61
/7/
2.9
/1608/

King Liar (2016)
Sathyanarayanan, who has an uncanny talent to deceive people, falls in love with Anjali, an aspiring model. He convinces her that he will help her enter the fashion world using his expertise.
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Amazon Prime Video
55
21
5.6
/336/
55
/24/
60
/23/
50
/6/
57
/4/
cc age 13+

Miss Arizona (2018)
A former pageant queen embarks on an all-night adventure with four unlikely friends she meets at a women's shelter.
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MGM Plus
66
19
7.0
/1141/
61
/15/
70
/20/
3.5
/572/
60
/2/

Ella Cinders (1926)
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.
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18
5.7
/257/
53
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49
/10/
2.8
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14
/14/
20
/66/

Meu Sangue Ferve por Você (2024)
In 1979, Brazilian singer Sidney Magal is at the peak of his career. On a TV show, he meets Magali and, enchanted by the young woman, decides to win her over. But, in order to do that, he will have to overcome the resistance of his manager, Jean Pierre, and the distrust of her family, friends and even Magali herself.
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63
17
6.5
/965/
64
/9/
58
/19/
3.3
/433/

Miss Blue Jeans (2012)
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.
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55
16
6.3
/982/
60
/13/
50
/10/
3.3
/336/
33
/109/

The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
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Hoopla
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16
5.3
/681/
49
/47/
57
/20/
2.9
/652/
44
/7/

Miss India America (2016)
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
51
15
4.1
/143/
37
/4/
60
/5/
3.0
/204/
60
/61/

Beauty Queen Butcher (1991)
Phyllis Loden is an overweight shy nerd who is relentlessly picked on by the more popular girls. This year's Slivis Slough Queen Beauty Pageant is fast approaching and Muffy Fairlane is a lock to win. However, Muffy doesn't want any of her friends to come in last so she enters Phyllis in the pageant. The plan works and also provides the girls with some opportunities to embarrass Phyllis in front of the whole school. As if that isn't bad enough Elizabeth McKay thinks she could've won it all if it wasn't for her allergic reaction the Phyllis' cat. So the girls decide to dispose of the feline. That turns out to be the final straw which sends Phyllis on a murderous rampage to eliminate the beauty queens one by one.
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Amazon Prime Video
44
15
4.7
/1059/
52
/17/
50
/22/
3.0
/669/
14
/12/

No Contest (1995)
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.
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45
14
5.2
/620/
51
/26/
49
/37/
2.9
/202/
15
/8/

Beauties at War (2009)
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.
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41
6
3.5
/557/
41
/8/
35
/2/
2.7
/530/

Dance with the Jackals 7 (2024)
A group of hapless friends stumble into a plot involving mobsters, bounty hunters, beauty queens, and stolen jewels.
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?
4.9
/11/
20
/1/

Nudist Beauty Contest (1965)
A bunch of women strip off one at a time to win a nude beauty contest.
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?
7.6
/11/
63
/3/

Entorno da Beleza (2012)
The film follows the Miss contest season in Brasilia and satellite cities of the Federal District in the year 2010, revealing the contradictions behind the catwalks of fashion.
poster
?
100
/1/

STUPID & CONTAGIOUS (2024)
From Simon Schwartz, this debut short chronicles a beauty pageant with a twist.
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?
10
/1/

Blackpool, Harden and Grange-over-Sands (1968)
A colourful miscellany of footage from both sides of the Pennines.
poster
?
10
/1/

We Chose Skegness (1961)
A pools winning family with over Ј8,000 to spend can have a holiday anywhere they like. But they forgo the Costas for Skegness - but decide to do it in style.
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?
4.7
/19/
30
/2/

Le ambiziose (1961)
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.
poster
?
5.2
/7/
10
/1/

The Bikini Open 5 (1991)
THE BIKINI OPEN is a special-event, retro series featuring the best swimsuit, fitness, bikini, and modeling competitions from the early 90s.
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?
7.3
/7/

Le soleil a pas d'chance (1975)
N/A
poster
?
40
/2/

Crowned Species (2013)
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?
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54
?
7.7
/281/
45
/2/
40
/2/

Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen (2001)
Documentary about the subculture of child beauty pageants (usually restricted to girls no older than 5), showing the lengths to which some parents will go to ensure that their children win these pageants...
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?
5.1
/23/
10
/1/

Beauty on Parade (1950)
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.
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?
100
/1/

Summer Hill (2019)
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.
poster
?
7.7
/43/

Lady Kul El-Arab (2007)
Angelina-Duah Fares, a Druze woman, attempts to enter the Israeli fashion world, but traditions clash with her efforts to choose her way in life.
poster
Hoopla
?
7.6
/45/
50
/3/

JonBenet's Tricycle (2018)
A unique individual who collects almost everything reveals some of the darker things he has acquired, including JonBenet Ramsey's Tricycle. An investigation of pop culture, media, tragedy and the items we possess.
poster
?
10
/1/

Za honban: Joyū ōdishon-hen (1987)
A girl gets a once in a lifetime chance to become an AV idol when she enters a beauty contest.
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Amazon Prime Video
?
9.0
/25/
cc age 14+

American Royalty (2022)
The American Royalty docuseries showcases an in-depth perspective of the Miss America Pageant. Experience the hundred year history, influence, controversy, and evolution of this iconic institution.
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?
5.7
/27/
10
/1/
20
/1/

Intimate Diary of Artists Models (1963)
NAKED facts of what goes ON and OFF inside artists' studios!


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