Beauty Standards Movies

A journalistic investigation, built not on rumors and assumptions, but on direct evidence, revealing the true mechanisms of podium coronations....

In a casting room, Claire and Louis judge fruits and vegetables as if they were contestants in a beauty contest. Weight, appearance and texture...

A documentary about body image and the industry leaders challenging society's unrealistic and dangerous standards of beauty.

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training...

« Shunned by her peers, a ballerina struggles to find her place in her dance group. In echo, three women reveal the invisible scars left by...

"COMPLEXion is a documentary that aims to unpack the hegemony of skin color globally and challenge the archaic notions that exist surrounding it. Our...

In a tide oblivious to diversity, pearl oysters live under attack for not fitting into the standards and sizes. This is the story of how their pearls...

When Magnolia becomes entranced by a make-up infomercial, her bottled up jealousy towards her friend, Florence, comes flowing out in a mixture of...

Juanjo (Antonio Pagudo) is a forty-year-old man who, despite not having low self-esteem due to his baldness, his wife, Inma (Eva Ugarte), obsessed...

A wickedly funny satire about the disparity between a woman's natural beauty and the ideal promoted by the mega-billion dollar advertising industry,...

The documentary explores issues of beauty and acceptance in a culture increasingly saturated with idealised and unattainable ideals of femininity. ...

A present-day young actor becomes convinced he is the reincarnation of Antinous, sparking a psychosexual drama that bridges the grandeur of ancient...

A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America.

Jacquelyn, used to presenting a carefully-edited version of herself online, commits to a 15-day challenge of posting unfiltered images. Unfiltered...

"Are WE Beautiful?” is an exploration of the way societal views affect the Black self-image. Told through a series of interviews with real New...

An update of our classic human anatomy.

A haunting reminder of the importance of self-acceptance and the ephemeral nature of physical beauty, urging the audience to reflect on the true...

A film about societal beauty standards, self-improvement, and identity