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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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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 find the courage to choose between following her heart or falling in line with her family.

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

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

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...

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 this contest that are controversial: it is organized by the right Zionist organization, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, and the dubious contest itself rises the public indignation of various speakers, including other survivors.

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

The Co-Star, is a hilarious insight into auditioning for one line parts. In the cut-throat world of 'under five' acting, will Cloe manage to overcome self-doubt, face those shark, and become 'The Co-Star' she was always destined to be?

Hello Mummy

A model and a photographer, after hours of trying, strive for the perfect shot but face challenges as their high aesthetic standards get in the way.

Querido Mundo

A man struggling with the end of a relationship goes down a fever-dream rabbit hole involving isolation, the millennium, 9/11, viruses and strange coincidences.

When Owen's girlfriend asks him for a "roze koek" (a Dutch pastry, "pink cake"), a quest follows past guards at the candy machine, at the changing rooms and even at the toilets... Then Owen discovers that school principal has sold the school to an organization 'that doesn't want to do anything with it for the time being.' 'Kun je wisselen?' was the exam assignment of the Podium class of the Ostrea Lyceum in Goes, under the guidance of Annet Minderhout. The film was made possible by the province of Zeeland as part of a larger project.