I Vitelloni (1953), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Bitter Rice (1949), Dead Ringers (1988), Iron Man Three (2013), Stan & Ollie (2018), Holiday Camp (1948), Flawless (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Beauty Contest movies.
Storyline: Fausto Moretti, having seduced Sandra Rubini, the sister of his friend and companion Moraldo Rubini, is forced to marry her. After their honeymoon, he takes a job as a salesman of religious objects in a small shop. He isn't changed by his marriage and still looks for women, with his friends, when and where they can find them. He even tries to seduce the wife of his boss and is fired. After each episode, Sandra forgives him. He and his friends of similar temperament are content to be idle, chase girls and leave the work and job-hunting to others. After spending the night away from home with a girl, Sandra cannot forgive anymore and runs off with their child. Fausto and his friends search all over for them, fearing the worst.
Plot Keywords: unfaithfulness, beauty contest, beauty queen, bicycle, boardwalk, boat, borrowing money ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Albuquerque, Sheryl Hoover brings her suicidal brother Frank to the breast of her dysfunctional and emotionally bankrupted family. Frank is homosexual, an expert in Proust. He tried to commit suicide when he was rejected by his boyfriend and his great competitor became renowned and recognized as number one in the field of Proust. Sheryl's husband Richard is unsuccessfully trying to sell his self-help and self-improvement technique using nine steps to reach success, but he is actually a complete loser. Her son Dwayne has taken a vow of silence as a follower of Nietzsche and aims to be a jet pilot. Dwayne's grandfather Edwin was sent away from the institution for elders (Sunset Manor) and is addicted in heroin. When her seven-year-old daughter Olive has a chance to dispute the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, the whole family travels together in their old Volkswagen Type 2 (Kombi) in a funny journey of hope of winning the talent contest and to make a dream ...
Plot Keywords: gay, remote control, pride, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, hospital ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.—Laura Ernestina Ruberto <lruberto@ucsd.edu>
Plot Keywords: falling from height, solidarity, necklace, runaway, honesty, dancing, singing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to 'share' her ?
Plot Keywords: identical twins, drug use, escort, ethics, homosexual, humiliation, husband wife relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Plot Keywords: terrorist, billionaire, superhero, terrorism, super soldier, u.s. president, kidnapping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true story of Hollywood's greatest comedy double act, Laurel and Hardy, is brought to the big screen for the first time. Starring Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as the inimitable movie icons, Stan and Ollie is the heart-warming story of what would become the pair's triumphant farewell tour. With their golden era long behind them, the pair embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille (Shirley Henderson) and Ida (Nina Arianda) - a formidable double act in their own right - the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public.
Plot Keywords: friendship, betrayal, 1950s, based on true story, bromance, husband wife relationship, theatre ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mr. and Mrs. Average British Family - if the average British family consists of a husband, wife, widowed daughter, and an adventurous son - go to a holiday camp, and encounter many people who are there for various and sundry reasons; a young, unmarried couple who are about to become parents out of wedlock; a sadist eluding Scotland Yard and looking for more sadistic activities; a husband-seeking spinster; two would-be gamblers looking just to make expenses; and a middle-aged matron on her first holiday after years of taking care of her invalid mother.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: family relationships, aunt niece relationship, unwed mother, scotland yard, post world war two, police officer, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Walt Koontz, a homophobic cop, ends up with paralyzed vocal cords because of an unfortunate stroke. His therapy includes singing lessons from a neighbor who is not only flamboyantly gay but also pre-operative transgender. Both of them are equally prejudiced; Koontz against non-heterosexuals and the neighbor against closed-minded straight people.
Plot Keywords: homosexual, gay interest, gay lead character, female impersonator, bravery, medal, shame ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Portrait of an American innocent. In 1955, Bettie Page (1923-2008) waits to testify before a U.S. Senate sub-committee investigating the effects of pornographic material on American adolescents and juveniles. In flashbacks, we see her childhood in Tennessee, a brief marriage, a gang rape, and her going to New York City in 1949. There she takes acting lessons, models for photos, and acts in short films for adults, earning the nickname "The Pin-Up Queen of the Universe". We see her relationship with merchants Irving and Paula Klaw, photographers John Willie and Bunny Yeager, boyfriends, and the public. Through it all, she is wholesome, sporting and forthright - Eve before the fall.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: bondage, 1950s, christianity, fetish, photography, sexual awakening, religion ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a song writer. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry, head over heels, but start to regret it very soon.—Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
Plot Keywords: memphis tennessee, recording studio, record store, horse, falling off horse, reference to the beatles, father daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Undercover F.B.I. Agent Gracie Hart shows no signs of having any femininity in her demeanor or appearance. Generally a bright and capable Agent, she is in trouble at work when she makes an error in judgment in a case which results in a near disaster. As such, one of her by-the-books colleagues, Eric Matthews, who has never shown any inclination of thinking outside the box, is assigned to lead the high profile case of a terrorist coined The Citizen instead of her, while she is facing possible disciplinary action. Gracie pieces together the evidence to determine that The Citizen's next target will be the Miss United States beauty pageant. The pageant represents everything that Gracie abhors. Despite Gracie's mannish demeanor, Eric, with no other undercover female Agent remotely fitting the demographic, assigns her to go undercover as a pageant contestant to see if she can flush out The Citizen, who is perhaps one of the other contestants. Although the pageant administration, led by ...
Plot Keywords: klutz, tough girl, action heroine, heroine, female protagonist, drunkenness, manhattan new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
Plot Keywords: 1970s, beauty contest, women's liberation, sexism, discrimination, feminist, grandmother ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town of Tinmouth. After causing chaos at a local council meeting and causing the demolition of a new house he tries to organise a beauty pageant. A slapstick tale of corruption in high and low places.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: klutz, beauty contest, actor playing multiple roles, three word title, independent film, based on book, london england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Carnelle isn't happy with her life, so in order to improve herself she enters a local beauty contest, trying to emulate her cousin Elain's win many years ago. Few think she can win, even her closest friends and relatives (e.g. slightly mad cousin Delmount) think she's heading for a big disappointment, but Carnelle is ever hopeful, seeing a win as a ticket to escape her small town in Mississippi.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: f rated, americana, affection, southern u.s., train, reunion, love ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave and he's looking for more than an apology.
Plot Keywords: stupid victim, beauty pageant, cleavage, scantily clad female, beauty contest, blonde, female in shower ...
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