Guerra de Misses (2009)

Cuando el objetivo de un asesino en serie es la ganadora del concurso de Miss Estados Unidos, el FBI decide enviar una agente infiltrada a participar en el concurso. La mejor candidata que encuentran para la misión es Gracie Hart, una agente de modales un tanto hoscos y poco femeninos. Aparece como Miss New Jersey, y, ante su total falta de glamur, los organizadores deciden buscarle un representante que le enseñe todos los trucos del mundo de la pasarela.

Durante una actuación en un hotel de playa, un showman intenta inútilmente atraer la atención de un público poco participativo. Pero su fracaso no es sólo profesional; tambien se está hundiendo su vida personal.

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.

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

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.

En un pequeño pueblo de Norte América se ha convocado una nueva edición del concurso anual de belleza “Joven Princesa Americana”. Dos son las concursantes con mayores posibilidades: la malcriada y rica heredera de un gran imperio de muebles y la modesta maquilladora de la funeraria local...

Los Hoover son una familia conflictiva: el abuelo esnifa cocaína y suelta palabrotas, el padre da cursos sobre el éxito con estrepitoso fracaso, la madre no da abasto, el tío se recupera de un suicidio frustrado al ser abandonado por su novio, el hijo adolescente lee a Nietzsche y se niega a hablar, y la hija pequeña, Olive, gafotas y ligeramente gordinflona, quiere ser una belleza. Cuando un golpe de suerte lleva a Olive a ser invitada a participar en el muy competitivo concurso de 'Pequeña Miss Sunshine' en California, toda la familia Hoover se reúne para ir con ella. Se apilan en su oxidada furgoneta Volkswagen y se dirigen hacia el Oeste en un trágicómico periplo de tres días lleno de locas sorpresas que les lleva al gran debut de Olive, el cual cambiará a esta familia de inadaptados de una forma que nunca hubieran imaginado.

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.

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.

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.

From oratory classes to operating room, Beauty Factory follows five girls for four months as they compete for the coveted Miss Venezuela crown; revealing the process that has won Venezuela more international beauty pageants than any other country.

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.

La rivalidad de las competidoras en un concurso de belleza se ve amenazada por un escándalo.

Jane (Joan Bennett), una muchacha pobre de Missouri, hija del ferroviario Miller (Douglas Cosgrove), quiere salir del infierno de Missouri y vivir entre riquezas y glamour. William (Spencer Tracy) está enamorado de ella, pero es un amor que no atrae a la codiciosa Jane. Como William quiere lo mejor para ella, le anima a entrar en un concurso de belleza. Jane gana el concurso y también el amor del millonario Roger Norton (James Kirkwood) con el que se va a su castillo, en Francia. Lamentablemente, Roger es un hombre terriblemente posesivo y una noche, en un ataque de locura intenta agredirla. Por suerte, él resbala y termina muerto. Jane regresa junto al hombre que realmente le ha amado.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.