Movies: Beauty

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the br...

Mirabelle and her traveling family band, the Veggietones, are determined to make their next gig at Vegtable Square Garden. On their journey, a fierce winter snowstorm hits, and the family gets stuck at a run-down resort! Mr. Beet, the grumpy manager ...

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Sergei, an aspiring musician, accidentally meets a deaf-mute girl, Natasha, and falls in love with her. He has to change a lot to prepare himself for a new relationship with a different and very vulnerable person. Natasha is like an alien or an alien...

A fat girl with cheerful and generous personality gets caught between her feeling for her childhood sweetheart and a famous idol, after an unexpected appearance change....

Barbara Field, born into poverty with a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair. Given the precious gift of an education, she is offered the opportunity of a place in the luxurious and decadent court of King Charles II, as a “Natura...

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Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful...

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Learning to love her luscious self over the past forty years, comedian Margaret Cho realized that the eye of the beholder doesn't hold all the power when it comes to beauty. Our tastes may be groomed by the media, but how we feel about how we look br...

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes....

Sergio believes that outer beauty is everything. On his girlfriend's grandmother's party day, he pays too much attention to his appearance, which leads to a series of complications that will make him understand the true meaning of beauty....

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks...

It follows Samantha Heather Mackey. She receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door and ditching her friend, Ava, in the process. Based on the novel by Mona Awad....

Steve knows he's straight but under the water at his local swimming pool, he feels gay. Will he tell his ex-girlfriend the entire truth and what does he dream of?...

After years of wanting to look like those who grace the covers of magazines, Frances ends up making headlines in a different way....

Her date was successful, but now she must face the Monster Within....

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In a world full of stupidity and fear, an unnaturally beautiful boy named Armin is born. Soon enough, Armin's magical nature begins to affect everything and everyone around him, leading to unexpected and dire consequences....

Feisty, fiercely independent and firmly rooted in place, 90 year-old Mabel Robinson broke barriers back in the 40s when she became the first woman in Hubbards, Nova Scotia, to launch her own business—a hairdressing salon where she still provides sham...