Beauties at War (2009)

Pernas depiladas, lábios com brilho. Arma pronta. A agente do FBI Gracie Hart tem esperança de se tornar a próxima Miss Estados Unidos. Mas Gracie não tem a elegância necessária.

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.

Em Mount Rose, uma pequena cidade do Minnesota, há uma grande movimentação para a 50ª edição do Jovem Princesa da América, o mais antigo concurso de beleza dos Estados Unidos. A vencedora irá disputar o prêmio estadual e quem vencer esta etapa disputará o prêmio nacional. Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley), que já venceu o concurso e pertence à família mais rica de Mount Rose, quer que sua filha, Becky Leeman (Denise Richards), seja a vencedora. Gladys está disposta a fazer qualquer coisa, literalmente falando, para ver sua filha como a ganhadora, mas existe uma maquiadora de defuntos, Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst), que correndo por fora se mostra uma forte rival.

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.

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.