Beauties at War (2009)

어렸을 때부터 남자처럼 자란 FBI 요원 그레이시(산드라 블록)는 꿈에도 생각 못한 임무를 떠맡고 만다. 폭탄 테러범이 미스 U.S. 대회를 위협하고 있으니 위장 출전해 대회를 감시하라는 것. 평소에 머리 한 번 제대로 빗어본적 없던 그레이시는 임무를 피하려 발버둥쳐 보지만 얼마 전 사고를 친 대가로 기어이 대회장에 끌려 가고 만다. 다리 털을 뽑고 머리를 부풀리고 온갖 치장을 한 끝에 미스 뉴저지로 다시 태어난 그레이시. 그녀는 멍청한 줄만 알았던 미인 대회 참가자들이 의외로 다양한 생각을 가지고 있는 것을 보고 놀란다.

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

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.

미네소타의 작은 마을, 마운트로즈, 그곳에서 매년 열리는 미인대회가 열리고 웬만한 10대 소녀들은 전부 참가한다. 그중에서도 가장 강력한 후보는 마을에서 가장 부자인 리맨 집안의 딸, 베키 리맨과 가난한 엄마와 단둘이 사는 앰버 앳킨스. 앰버는 가난하지만 예쁘고 재능도 있고 똑똑하고 착하기까지 하다. 그녀의 꿈은 미인대회에 나가서 다이앤 소여처럼 유명인이 되어 마운트로즈를 떠나는 것. 반면 베키는 부잣집에서 부족한 것 없이 자랐고 승부욕이 강하다. 베키 리맨의 어머니, 글래디스 리맨은 미인대회를 주관하고 있었고 딸이 미인대회에서 1등을 하게 하기 위해서라면 못할 것이 없다. 베키와 글래디스의 마음에 들지 않거나 방해가 되는 사람들은 차례로 죽거나 다치거나 사고를 당한다. 그러던 중 앰버와 그녀의 어머니가 살던 트레일러에 의문의 폭발 사고가 발생하고 앰버의 어머니 아네트는 큰 화상을 입게 된다. 생명의 위협을 느낀 앰버는 대회를 포기하고자 하지만 어머니의 격려로 대회를 계속하게 되는데...

또래 아이보다 통통한 몸매지만 유난히 미인대회에 집착하 올리브에게 캘리포니아 주에서 열리는 쟁쟁한 어린이 미인 대회인 미스 리틀 선샤인 대회 출전의 기회가 찾아온다. 그리고 딸아이의 소원을 위해 온 가족이 낡은 고물 버스를 타고 1박2일 동안의 무모한 여행 길에 오르게 된다. 좁은 버스 안에서 후버 가족의 비밀과 갈등은 점점 더 커져만 가는데... 할아버지와 올리브가 열심히 준비한 미스 리틀 선샤인 대회의 마지막 무대는 가족 모두를 그들이 절대 상상할 수 없었던 방식으로 변화시키게 된다. 과연 후버 가족에겐 무슨 일이 생긴 것일까?

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.

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.

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.

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.