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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get...

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper...

Amber, a mean popular girl who gets electrocuted and dies, is not allowed to enter into heaven unless she helps the least popular girl in school...

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

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

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.

A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.

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