Beauty Standards Movies

When Lavenza, a 19th-century noblewoman, overhears her husband complaining about her looks, she turns herself into his ideal wife by thrifting the...

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

The film talks about how in India everyone wants to be light skinned, and how there is a sense of idealism and beauty associated with fair skin,...

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...

As Hanna and her ten-year-old niece, Erle, get ready for a day at the beach, Hanna is faced with a dilemma: How can she manage to be both a cool aunt...

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

« 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...

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

A Vietnamese-American girl idolizes her mother and follows her strict beauty routine until her mother gets an unexpected surgery.

An update of our classic human anatomy.

There's a witch that can grant any wish, but in return she takes a part of your soul to survive. However, is it really all what it seems? What would...

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