Movies: Beauty queen contest

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery....

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant....

During the weekend of the Miss Queen of Hearts pageant, a secretive love blossoms between Miss Montana and Miss Florida. However, Miss Florida faces a dilemma: she's the daughter of a conservative congresswoman who’s hosting the event. Now, she must ...

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

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....

It is the small clues in the brightly-coloured and fast-paced film Mis that explain why the Miss Shishi elections come to nothing for Lydia. The ladies' toilets are a fitting stage for the taut world of a Miss election....

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 ...

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......

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 ...

Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous virus that is to be used in bacterial warfare....

What happens if a regular housewife picks up in a local beauty contest - and wins? How will it be when the husband forbids her to go to the finals in Mallorca - but she is going anyway?...

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 th...

A filmed record of the 1978 "Alternative Miss World" beauty pageant held in a circus tent on Clapham Common in South London....

An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge....

During the war of the Portuguese overseas colonies, Íris Maria, an 18-year-old Portuguese girl born on a small island in Mozambique won the titles of Miss Mozambique and Miss Portugal 1972. This is her story....