Beauties at War

Jan 14, 2009

1h 29m

★ 4.9

Overview

A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Gaumont

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Cast

Franck Chevrel

Benoît Poelvoorde

Cécile

Olivia Bonamy

Le maire de Charmoussey

Jacques Mathou

Le maire de Super Charmoussey

Christian Charmetant

Femme maire Charmoussey

Béatrice Michel

Femme maire Super Charmoussey

Michèle Garcia

Camille

Cynthia Groggia

Père du maire Super Charmoussey

Albert Delpy

Gaby (le coiffeur)

Laurent Gamelon

Le présentateur

Jean-Paul Comart

Gérard patron du café

Antoine Chappey

Jeanine, la patronne du café

Juliette Poissonnier

Lily is a winner, but when her boyfriend leaves her for a vapid beauty pageant queen, she gets the notion that winning the Miss India America title would bring him back. Since Lily is perfect in everything else she does, it should be a cinch...or so she thinks. The pageant world isn't just pretty smiles and high heels, and her main competition, Sonia, gives her a run for her money.

6.1

Plucking the Daisy

Jul 25, 1956

Due to an urgent need of money, aspiring writer Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest. Her new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a reporter by profession, covers the contest for his magazine.

7.0

Ella Cinders

Jun 6, 1926

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

6.2

Franswa Sharl

Jan 15, 2009

Keeping the position of number one son requires a certain amount of ingenuity. Twelve year old Greg has inherited his father's competitive streak. On a family holiday to Fiji they have different ideas about where Greg should focus his talents. When his creative pursuits fail to amuse his father Greg goes to bizarre lengths to win him back.

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0.0

Miss

Jan 1, 1986

Three gangsters smuggle a microfilm with passport data from West Germany to their buyer from Middle East, which happens to be crucial thing for the security of European Community. On their way through Yugoslavia, they try to hide the microfilm in the Miss Universum's purse who pays visit to the country at its national beauty contest. The problems arise when the microfilm accidentally finds itself in the possession of one of the competitors, unbeknown-st to her. The criminals try to get in possession of the microfilm, however a brave journalist who came because of the contest prevents them of doing so.

6.0

Beauty Queen Butcher

Jan 1, 1991

Phyllis Loden is an overweight shy nerd who is relentlessly picked on by the more popular girls. This year's Slivis Slough Queen Beauty Pageant is fast approaching and Muffy Fairlane is a lock to win. However, Muffy doesn't want any of her friends to come in last so she enters Phyllis in the pageant. The plan works and also provides the girls with some opportunities to embarrass Phyllis in front of the whole school. As if that isn't bad enough Elizabeth McKay thinks she could've won it all if it wasn't for her allergic reaction the Phyllis' cat. So the girls decide to dispose of the feline. That turns out to be the final straw which sends Phyllis on a murderous rampage to eliminate the beauty queens one by one.

0.0

Le ambiziose

Feb 1, 1961

Thirty girls arrive in a seaside town to participate in a beauty contest. Marina has no ambitions of victory: she only wants to have the sewing machine promised to each participant.

6.0

Miss Blue Jeans

Aug 3, 2012

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 appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.

5.8

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Oct 25, 1951

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.

6.0

Miss Arizona

Jun 10, 2018

A former pageant queen embarks on an all-night adventure with four unlikely friends she meets at a women's shelter.

6.0

The Case of the Lucky Legs

Oct 5, 1935

A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

4.0

Goldie Gets Along

Jan 27, 1933

A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.

6.6

Die Beautiful

Dec 25, 2016

Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man.

6.3

King Liar

Apr 2, 2016

Sathyanarayanan, who has an uncanny talent to deceive people, falls in love with Anjali, an aspiring model. He convinces her that he will help her enter the fashion world using his expertise.

4.2

Picking Peaches

Feb 2, 1924

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...

5.3

Juke Joint

Jan 1, 1947

Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.

5.1

Fast and Furious

Oct 6, 1939

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.

6.4

Misbehaviour

Mar 12, 2020

A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.

6.0

Dance with the Jackals 7

Dec 6, 2024

A group of hapless friends stumble into a plot involving mobsters, bounty hunters, beauty queens, and stolen jewels.

7.7

Little Miss Sunshine

Jul 26, 2006

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.

Cast

Franck Chevrel

Benoît Poelvoorde

Cécile

Olivia Bonamy

Le maire de Charmoussey

Jacques Mathou

Le maire de Super Charmoussey

Christian Charmetant

Femme maire Charmoussey

Béatrice Michel

Femme maire Super Charmoussey

Michèle Garcia

Camille

Cynthia Groggia

Père du maire Super Charmoussey

Albert Delpy

Gaby (le coiffeur)

Laurent Gamelon

Le présentateur

Jean-Paul Comart

Gérard patron du café

Antoine Chappey

Jeanine, la patronne du café

Beauties at War

Overview

Genres

Production Companies

Beauties at War Trailers

Cast

Benoît Poelvoorde

Olivia Bonamy

Jacques Mathou

Christian Charmetant

Béatrice Michel

Michèle Garcia

Cynthia Groggia

Albert Delpy

Laurent Gamelon

Jean-Paul Comart

Antoine Chappey

Juliette Poissonnier

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Fast and Furious

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Dance with the Jackals 7

Little Miss Sunshine

Cast

Benoît Poelvoorde

Olivia Bonamy

Jacques Mathou

Christian Charmetant

Béatrice Michel

Michèle Garcia

Cynthia Groggia

Albert Delpy

Laurent Gamelon

Jean-Paul Comart

Antoine Chappey

Juliette Poissonnier

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Miss India America

Plucking the Daisy

Ella Cinders

Franswa Sharl

Miss

Beauty Queen Butcher

Le ambiziose

Miss Blue Jeans

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Miss Arizona

The Case of the Lucky Legs

Goldie Gets Along

Die Beautiful

King Liar

Picking Peaches

Juke Joint

Fast and Furious

Misbehaviour

Dance with the Jackals 7

Little Miss Sunshine

Beauties at War Trailers