Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "beauty-contest"

51. Barnyard Follies (1940)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Pappy, the manager of the Farmdale orphanage, appropriates five thousand dollars of the taxpayers' money to enroll his charges in a 4-H project that could make the orphanage self-sufficient... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Mary Lee, Rufe Davis, June Storey, Jed Prouty

Votes: 54

52. Slozna braca (1995–1996)

55 min | Comedy, War

In a fictional tavern located in a tiny UN demilitarized zone, during the Bosnian war, spies from all three warring sides are waiting for a foreign spy with a secret weapon that will bring victory to the side that obtains it.

Stars: Vladimir-Cobi Savcic, Goran Sultanovic, Zivojin 'Zika' Milenkovic, Zoran Cvijanovic

Votes: 1,618

53. Of Time and the City (2008)

Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Biography

A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.

Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Terence Davies, George Harrison, Jack Hawkins, John Lennon

Votes: 2,264 | Gross: $0.03M

54. The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)

99 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

Jayne Mansfield shares her experiences from her last trip around the world.

Directors: Charles W. Broun Jr., Joel Holt, Arthur Knight | Stars: Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay, Rocky Roberts and The Airdales, The Ladybirds

Votes: 357

55. The Great Masquerade (1974)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime

In order to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers, a cop is sent undercover to participate in a drag-queen beauty contest aboard a cruise ship.

Director: Alan Ormsby | Stars: Kaye Stevens, Roberts Blossom, Gay Perkins, Frank Logan

Votes: 125

56. The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

Criminals hijack an airplane that not only carries a dangerous organism that is to be used in bacterial warfare, but also five beauty contest finalists.

Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Gary Collins, Chuck Connors, Henry Gibson, Peter Haskell

Votes: 192

57. Fast and Furious (1939)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Rare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge - much to her chagrin.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman

Votes: 878

58. Vampire Cop (1990)

R | 89 min | Action, Horror

A cop, who's actually a vampire, teams up with a hot investigative journalist to stop a posh crime boss.

Director: Donald Farmer | Stars: Ed Cannon, Melissa Moore, Mal Arnold, Joey Thrower

Votes: 208

59. Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold (1978 TV Movie)

98 min | Drama

A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.

Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Kim Basinger, Vivian Blaine, Fabian, Tab Hunter

Votes: 220

60. Press for Time (1966)

98 min | Comedy

The British P.M.'s grandson, Norman, becomes a reporter for a provincial newspaper where he causes hilarious chaos.

Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Derek Bond, Angela Browne, Tracey Crisp

Votes: 636

61. Central Park (1932)

Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Gangsters posing as police officers offer a woman a chance to make money if she helps them out.

Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee, Henry B. Walthall

Votes: 497

62. The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 896

63. The Everlasting Secret Family (1988)

Unrated | 94 min | Drama, Romance

A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long... See full summary »

Director: Michael Thornhill | Stars: Arthur Dignam, Mark Lee, Heather Mitchell, Dennis Miller

Votes: 373

64. Holiday Camp (1947)

Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Flora Robson, Dennis Price, Jack Warner, Hazel Court

Votes: 555

65. The Great American Beauty Contest (1973 TV Movie)

Unrated | 74 min | Drama

The integrity of a beauty contest is threatened by a scandal involving a judge, a former winner and one of the finalists.

Director: Robert Day | Stars: Eleanor Parker, Robert Cummings, Louis Jourdan, JoAnna Cameron

Votes: 120

66. Best Undressed (2008)

52 min | Documentary

A behind the scenes look at Australia's longest running and most politically incorrect beauty contest, the Miss Nude Australia Pageant. Told from the contestants and organisers perspective.

Director: Martin Taylor | Stars: Suzie Q, Ashlee Adams, Ellashaye, Toni Star

Votes: 36

67. Girls in the Night (1953)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A family's efforts to move out of a slum area into a better neighborhood is hampered when their son is accused of the murder of a local blind beggar.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Harvey Lembeck, Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Leonard Freeman

Votes: 111

68. 3 Beauties (2014)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Perla is obsessed with having a beauty queen in the family and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her dream come true.

Director: Carlos Caridad-Montero | Stars: Diana Peñalver Denis, Josette Vidal, Fabiola Arace, Fabián Moreno

Votes: 250

69. Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen (2001 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

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...

Director: Shari Cookson | Stars: Swan Brooner, Robin Browne, Leslie Butler, Michael Butler

Votes: 275

70. Fag Hag (1998)

Unrated | 73 min | Comedy

A pathological liar and an HIV-positive rapper join forces to take a small gay community by storm. Featuring a cameo by Wil Wheaton (Stand By Me)!

Director: Damion Dietz | Stars: Stephanie Kirchen, Damion Dietz, Saadia Billman, Darryl Theirse

Votes: 207

71. Love on Toast (1937)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A female press agent must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a struggling soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk who doesn't want to play along.

Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Stella Adler, John Payne, Grant Richards, Kathryn Kane

Votes: 61

72. True Beauty (2009–2010)

60 min | Reality-TV

Several models compete to be chosen as the most beautiful person, but they are not told that the real purpose of the competition is to chose the one with the most beautiful personal qualities such as character, virtue, honesty, etc.

Stars: Vanessa Lachey, Carson Kressley, Beth Stern, Taylor Bills

Votes: 407

73. Reyna: Ang makulay na pakikipagsapalaran ng ma achucherva, achuchuva, achechenes... (2006)

TV-PG | 98 min | Comedy

A story of a sad, insecure woman who feels a need to win a beauty pageant to prove her self-worth and to fulfill her mother's dying wish.

Director: Soxy Topacio | Stars: Keanna Reeves, Paolo Contis, Eddie Garcia, Dick Israel

Votes: 22

74. My Seven Little Bares (1963)

Unrated | 64 min | Drama

Tina is horrified when she crashes her bicycle into a pond and is rescued from drowning and taken to a nudist camp by her rescuer to recover, but naturist bliss and true love await.

Director: Arthur Knight | Stars: Carl Conway, Julie Martin, Nina Huntredos, Kenneth McLelland

Votes: 28

75. Rantevou ston aera (1966)

93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A hopeful Miss Europe 1966 and her girlfriends fall for an aircraftman and his friends. To be together, they take advantage of their commander's adoration for the famous actress, Rena Vlahopoulou. Who says no to a rendezvous with love?

Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Rena Vlahopoulou, Kostas Voutsas, Martha Karagianni, Andreas Douzos

Votes: 489

76. Sunday Beauty Queen (2016)

95 min | Documentary

Sunday Beauty Queen is a real-life Cinderella tale of a Filipina house helper who dreams of being a Beauty Queen in Hong Kong.

Director: Baby Ruth Villarama | Stars: Ju-chen Chen, Leo Selomonio, Rudelie Acosta, Yoanna Leung

Votes: 188

77. Of Thee I Sing (1972 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Musical

CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing in then-current CBS television series.

Directors: Roger Beatty, Dick Hall, Dave Powers | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Cloris Leachman, Jack Gilford, Michele Lee

Votes: 43

78. The Cookie Carnival (1935)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Cookies, cakes, and other desserts march in a parade. A gingerbread girl cries because she has nothing to wear; a gingerbread man dresses her up, and she is named cookie queen.

Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Pinto Colvig, The Four Blackbirds, Marcellite Garner, The Guardsmen

Votes: 886

79. Night in New Orleans (1942)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Police Lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel might be intimately ... See full summary »

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Preston Foster, Patricia Morison, Albert Dekker, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 97

80. Temptation Island (1980)

113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

This is a story about a group of beauty-contest finalists stranded on a desert island without food, water, or shelter.

Director: Joey Gosiengfiao | Stars: Dina Bonnevie, Azenith Briones, Jennifer Cortez, Bambi Arambulo

Votes: 90

81. The $1.98 Beauty Show (1978–1980)

30 min | Comedy, Family, Game-Show

A parody of traditional beauty contests hosted by oddball comedian Rip Taylor. Mock pageant contestants would be put through a series of bizarre and embarrassing routines until one emerged ... See full summary »

Stars: Rip Taylor, Johnny Jacobs, Anne Lockhart, Lou Mulford

Votes: 78

82. Playing Around (1930)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. She gets involved with the playboy and ... See full summary »

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Chester Morris, William Bakewell, Richard Carlyle

Votes: 330

83. Redheads on Parade (1935)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him withdrawing his support. But all ends well.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: John Boles, Dixie Lee, Jack Haley, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 45

84. Laruan (1983)

Drama

Joy (Carmi Martin) has only one ambition in life - to get rich and give her family a more comfortable life. She enslaves herself to William (Mark Gil) in her hope that he will help her achieve her goal.

Director: Emmanuel H. Borlaza | Stars: Carmi Martin, Angela Perez, Mark Gil, Chanda Romero

Votes: 12

85. Pura vida Ibiza (2004)

83 min | Comedy

Three high school graduates thinking to party all summer take jobs as hosts in a vacation club on Ibiza, the Mediterranean hot spot for oversexed boys and underdressed girls. Instead of sun... See full summary »

Director: Gernot Roll | Stars: Kristian Kiehling, Tom Wlaschiha, Michael Krabbe, Julia Dietze

Votes: 696

86. Pick a Star (1937)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Jack Haley, Rosina Lawrence, Patsy Kelly, Mischa Auer

Votes: 554

87. Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva (1990)

111 min | Comedy

The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.

Director: Ere Kokkonen | Stars: Heikki Kinnunen, Pekka Huotari, Pertti Koivula, Jukka Puotila

Votes: 705

88. Camping Cosmos (1996)

88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a peculiar way...

Director: Jan Bucquoy | Stars: Jean-Henri Compère, Fanny Hanciaux, Lolo Ferrari, Jean-Paul Dermont

Votes: 344

89. Snow White and Russian Red (2009)

108 min | Comedy, Drama

An aggressive thug has problems with his girlfriend. Over the course of several chaotic days he walks around the hood, takes drugs and confronts himself with other women.

Director: Xawery Zulawski | Stars: Borys Szyc, Roma Gasiorowska, Maria Strzelecka, Sonia Bohosiewicz

Votes: 2,071

90. Black Cinderella (2021)

TV-14 | 40 min | Drama, Romance

Kamiya Manaha firmly believes that she's a plain Jane who wouldn't fit in a beauty contest that she's always dreamed of joining. However, she gets invited and eventually agrees to enter. ... See full summary »

Stars: Riko, Fûju Kamio, Mizuki Itagaki, Erica Murakami

Votes: 45

91. Cut Sleeve Boys (2006)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Romance

Two British Chinese gay men decides to re-examine their lives following a death of their friend. Mel sleeps around whilst rejecting the love of Todd and Ash decides to cross dress to find his knight in shining armour.

Director: Ray Yeung | Stars: Chowee Leow, Steven Lim, Gareth Rhys Davis, Neil Collie

Votes: 506 | Gross: $0.01M

92. She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau, where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.

Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Joan Bennett, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel, James Kirkwood

Votes: 114

93. Dream Girl of '67 (1966–1967)

TV-14 | 25 min | Game-Show, Reality-TV

This Chuck Barris new entry had 3 Hosts, 3 Hostesses and 1 sub-host for a week presided over the daily all-year-long beauty pageant. The Host will introduce the girls aged from 18 to 27 ... See full summary »

Stars: Johnny Jacobs, Karen Valentine, Dick Stewart, Paul Petersen

Votes: 34

94. Luz Marina (1981– )

Drama, Romance

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Stars: Maria Conchita Alonso, Jean Carlo Simancas, Tatiana Capote, Hilda Abrahamz

95. Miss and Mrs Sweden (1969)

94 min | Comedy

To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is planning to sabotage the competition, because it is sexist.

Director: Göran Gentele | Stars: Jarl Kulle, Sven Lindberg, Gunn Wållgren, Meg Westergren

Votes: 148

96. Re: Zero kara hajimeru isekai seikatsu: Death or Kiss (2017 Video Game)

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

When Subaru Natsuki leaves the convenience store, the last thing he expects is to be wrenched from his everyday life and dropped into a fantasy world. Things aren't looking good for the ... See full summary »

Votes: 108

97. Dhund: The Fog (2003)

Not Rated | 153 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

A mysterious killer rises from the grave and terrorizes two couples in seeking revenge for his murder.

Director: Shyam Ramsay | Stars: Amar Upadhyay, Aditi Govitrikar, Apurva Agnihotri, Divya Palat

Votes: 338

98. Costa Azzurra (1959)

84 min | Comedy

Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great industrial Signore Carsoli. The famous ... See full summary »

Director: Vittorio Sala | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Rita Gam, Antonio Cifariello, Elsa Martinelli

Votes: 173

99. Zostac miss (2001– )

60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Stars: Wojciech Wysocki, Jerzy Bonczak, Damian Aleksander, Przemyslaw Sadowski

Votes: 70

100. Sing As We Go! (1934)

80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.

Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Gracie Fields, John Loder, Dorothy Hyson, Stanley Holloway

Votes: 147