Beauty Standards Movies

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,...

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

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...

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

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

« 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...

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...

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

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

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

An update of our classic human anatomy.

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

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

"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...

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

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...

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