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 Queen

1968

English

7.2

♡ 5

96%

Frank Simon Director

George Plimpton as Self

Andy Warhol as Self

Larry Rivers as Self

Edie Sedgwick as Self

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.

Bikini Baby

1951

English

5.8

♡ 5

Frank Launder Director

Aileen Lewis as Diner in foreground

Trevor Howard as Guest at Theater Accepting Program

Alastair Sim as Hawtrey Murington - Optimum Films

Dennis Price as Simon Abott

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.

Smile

1975

English

7.1

♡ 3

100%

Michael Ritchie Director

Beans Morocco as At the Party

Barbara Feldon as Brenda

Caroline Williams as Helga - Young American Miss

Melanie Griffith as Karen - Young American Miss

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?

Miss Firecracker

1989

English

6.0

♡ 3

82%

52%

Action

based on play or musical

Thomas Schlamme Director

Tim Robbins as Delmount Williams

Scott Glenn as Mac Sam

Bert Remsen as Mr. Morton

Robert Fieldsteel as Tommy Turner

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.

Miss

2020

French

6.4

♡ 6

Ruben Alves Director

Big John as Le boxeur vestiaires

Thibault de Montalembert as Lola

Amanda Lear as Marraine

Stéfi Celma as Miss PACA

A young man seeking his sexual identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.

Miss Juneteenth

2020

English

6.5

♡ 10

99%

Channing Godfrey Peoples Director

Liz Mikel as Betty Ray

Kendrick Sampson as Ronnie

Nicole Beharie as Turquoise Jones

Van Alexander as Wayman's Bar Patron

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.

Happy, Texas

1999

English

6.3

♡ 3

81%

Mark Illsley Director

M.C. Gainey as Bob Maslow

William H. Macy as Chappy

Tim Bagley as David

Ron Perlman as Nalhober

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.

Miss Congeniality

2000

English

6.3

♡ 83

41%

Donald Petrie Director

Benjamin Bratt as Eric Matthews

Steve Monroe as Frank Tobin

Sandra Bullock as Gracie Hart

Michael Caine as Victor Melling

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.

Carry on Girls

1973

English

5.8

♡ 6

55%

Gerald Thomas Director

Peter Butterworth as Admiral

Ron Tarr as Bearded Audience Member

Joan Sims as Connie Philpotts

Aileen Lewis as Town Councillor

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

1994

English

4.7

♡ 11

14%

Paul Lynch Director

Andrew Dice Clay as Oz aka Raymond Ulysses Brice

Jason Blicker as Roger Stalwart

Robert Davi as Sergeant Crane

Shannon Tweed as Sharon Bell

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.

Dumplin'

2018

English

6.5

♡ 34

86%

Anne Fletcher Director

Dove Cameron as Bekah

Luke Benward as Bo

Harold Perrineau as Lee

Jennifer Aniston as Rosie

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.

Miss India America

2015

English

5.3

♡ 3

44%

Ravi Kapoor Director

Rizwan Manji as Balu Patel

Meera Simhan as Gita Prasad

Tiya Sircar as Lily Prasad

Satya Bhabha as Sanjay

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.

Miss Italy Must Not Die

2025

Italian

5.2

♡ 1

struggle for survival

Pietro Daviddi Director

Jenni Wilson as Barbara / Additional VO

Michael Bell as Gerry Stefanelli

Carolina Hoyos as Margherita Praticò Gori

Betsy Baker as Patrizia Mirigliani

Behind the glitz of Miss Italia, director Patrizia Mirigliani fights to save the iconic pageant, now wavering amid scandals and changing beauty standards.

The Entertainer

1960

English

7.1

♡ 7

71%

74%

Action

bankruptcy

based on play or musical

Tony Richardson Director

Charles Gray as Columnist

Alan Bates as Frank Rice

Daniel Massey as Graham

Jimmy Charters as Man in Pub Listening to Billy Sing

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

Miss Arizona

2018

English

5.6

♡ 8

50%

Autumn McAlpin Director

Missi Pyle as Bev

Kevin Heffernan as Bigs

Dana Wheeler-Nicholson as Maybelle

Kyle Howard as Rick

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

The Pageant

2020

Hebrew

5.3

♡ 1

holocaust (shoah) survivor

old woman

painful memories

Eytan Ipeker Director

Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest has been taking place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In the midst of this flashy spectacle, their personal traumas remain as deep as ever. There are many things about this contest that are controversial: it is organized by the right Zionist organization, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, and the dubious contest itself rises the public indignation of various speakers, including other survivors.

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