A young man seeking his sexual identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to...

The teenagers of a rural community are confronted by the not-so-charming realities of their hometown on the eve of its annual beauty pageant.

To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her...

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

A young woman's rise to fame after she wins a beauty contest is cut short when she marries an ex-convict.

Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title in order to marry Jeffrey Woodstock. She hopes to...

A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a...

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock'n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to...

Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural, and religious obligations. As she comes...

A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will...

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an...

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

When fifteen-year-old Tyson attends public school for the first time, his life is changed forever. While helping his father clean up after the...

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

Former Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent, one side of his face scarred by acid, goes on a crime spree based on the number '2'. All of his...

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past,...

A boxer suffers a serious head injury during a fight, and must deal with the consequences.