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 the early 1980s, a teenage girl escapes years of captivity at the hands of her beauty-obsessed mother, leaving a bloody trail of delay 'makeovers'...

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...

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...

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

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

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. ...

« 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...

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

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

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

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

An update of our classic human anatomy.

"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...

“I Beg You To Like Me”, serves as a testimony of individuals who felt oppressed about their body image for not meeting the standard...

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

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