Miss Navajo (2012)

Nenhuma família é verdadeiramente normal, mas a família Hoover extrapola. O pai desenvolveu um método de auto-ajuda que é um fracasso, o filho mais velho fez voto de silêncio, o cunhado é um professor suicida e o avô foi expulso de uma casa de repouso por usar heroína. Nada funciona para o clã, até que a filha caçula, a desajeitada Olive (Abigail Breslin), é convidada para participar de um concurso de beleza para meninas pré-adolescentes. Durante três dias eles deixam todas as suas diferenças de lado e se unem para atravessar o país numa kombi amarela enferrujada.

Willowdean Dickson (Danielle Macdonald), é uma jovem acima do peso e bastante confiante com o próprio corpo, apesar de não ter o respeito de sua mãe, uma ex-miss (Jennifer Aniston). Quando se apaixona pelo atleta Bo (Luke Benward) e começa a ter inseguranças. Will decide entrar num concurso de beleza como forma de protesto.

No meio de uma fuga audaciosa, dois bandidos fogem para uma cidadezinha chamada Happy, no meio do Texas. Às vésperas de um concurso de jovens talentos, os dois são vistos como a última esperança da cidade para ajudar as meninas locais. Desprezando inicialmente a idéia, os dois bandidos resolvem ajudar ao perceber que o banco local faz uma grande movimentação de dinheiro.

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.

Esta é a história de Cernelle (Holly Hunter), uma mulher que não está feliz com sua vida. Para melhorar seu ânimo, ela se inscreve num concurso de beleza tentando imitar sua prima Elain (Mary Steenburgen). Para a maioria das pessoas, Cernelle não tem nenhuma chance de ganhar o concurso. Mesmo seus parentes e amigos sabem que ela está fora do páreo. Seu primo Delmont (Tim Robbins) acredita que a garota está prestes a passar por um enorme desapontamento. Mas Cernelle sabe que ganhar o concurso de beleza é a porta aberta para sua libertação. Só assim ela poderá deixar sua cidadezinha localizada no Mississipi.

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

Sátira sobre os bastidores de um concurso de Miss Universo na Califórnia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ren & Luca chronicles a year in the life of two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, a local beauty pageant, and transitioning in the Trump era.

The role of women and tradition in Dine (Navajo) culture is explored through a young girl's quest for the Miss Navajo Nation crown.

Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a history of the contest (which has run eccentrically since 1972) which was set up firstly as an excuse to have a good party, but has grown into a celebration of alternative lifestyles and sexualities. The documentary mixes archive footage, animated inserts, with talking head interviews and a fly-on-the-wall look at the organisation of the 2009 event

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...

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.

Lotte and her father moves in with Kristin, a former beauty queen, and her daughter, Vendela. Kristin is grooming Vendela to win the Little Miss Norway contest, and as a result both girls get more and more preoccupied with their looks. When Lotte is allowed to participate in the contest, it soon becomes clear that being too vain can be a frightening experience.

The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger sister.

O documentário “Entorno da Beleza”, dirigido por Dácia Ibiapina, apresenta os bastidores dos concursos de miss realizados no Distrito Federal, com um olhar diferenciado que retrata belezas, contrastes e o cotidiano do “entorno” de Brasília.