Beauty Standards Movies

« 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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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,...

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

"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 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.

A look into how beauty standards affect self-image.

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

She tells Lalin's journey from Thailand to Japan. With the opportunity to study abroad, she flees to Sapporo, where no one knows her and can live...

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