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1. Iron Man Three (2013)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Director: Shane Black | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle
Votes: 757,848 | Gross: $409.01M
2. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Stars: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 440,805 | Gross: $59.89M
3. Misbehaviour (2020)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe | Stars: Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear
Votes: 5,310
4. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery
Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.
Director: Jim Gillespie | Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anne Heche, Ryan Phillippe
Votes: 133,897 | Gross: $72.59M
5. Miss Congeniality (2000)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An F.B.I. Agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, Candice Bergen
Votes: 188,624 | Gross: $106.81M
6. Dead Ringers (1988)
R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon
Votes: 41,701 | Gross: $9.13M
7. Stan & Ollie (2018)
PG | 98 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Laurel and Hardy, the world's most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song - a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain.
Director: Jon S. Baird | Stars: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda
Votes: 32,421 | Gross: $5.47M
8. The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
R | 91 min | Biography, Drama
The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation because of her risqué bondage photos.
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris
Votes: 10,458 | Gross: $1.41M
9. The Thing Called Love (1993)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock
Votes: 7,287 | Gross: $1.03M
10. The Queen of Versailles (2012)
PG | 100 min | Documentary
A documentary that follows a billionaire couple as they begin construction on a mansion inspired by Versailles. During the next two years, their empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis.
Director: Lauren Greenfield | Stars: Jaqueline Siegel, David Siegel, Lorraine Barrett, June Downs
Votes: 12,559 | Gross: $2.40M
11. The Big Sleep (1978)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark
Votes: 4,178
12. Flawless (1999)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An ultraconservative security guard suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons, with the drag queen next door.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Chris Bauer
Votes: 17,790 | Gross: $4.49M
13. Sweet Movie (1974)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
After winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.
Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey
Votes: 5,433
14. Carry on Girls (1973)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor
Votes: 2,553
15. I Vitelloni (1953)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 16,203 | Gross: $0.10M
16. The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Approved | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
Director: Joseph Green | Stars: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna, Adele Lamont
Votes: 6,270
17. The Firemen's Ball (1967)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Drama
A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha, Frantisek Debelka
Votes: 9,632
18. Miss Firecracker (1989)
PG | 102 min | Comedy
Carnelle wants to escape her dreary life, so she enters a local beauty contest, much to everyone's dismay.
Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard
Votes: 1,942 | Gross: $0.65M
19. Soy Cuba (1964)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama, History, War
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Votes: 8,250
20. Bitter Rice (1949)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama
Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone
Votes: 3,688
21. Chasing Papi (2003)
PG | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A successful executive in the cosmetic industry has three sexy girlfriends in three different states. When they decide to visit him in L.A., he's in big trouble.
Director: Linda Mendoza | Stars: Eduardo Verástegui, Roselyn Sanchez, Sofía Vergara, Jaci Velasquez
Votes: 3,906 | Gross: $6.13M
22. The Entertainer (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright
Votes: 3,015
23. Smile (1975)
PG | 113 min | Comedy
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Geoffrey Lewis
Votes: 2,051
24. Hear My Song (1991)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The owner of a failing club seeks infamous Irish singer Josef Locke in order to bring business and success to his club.
Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, Brian Flanagan, Constance Cowley
Votes: 1,502 | Gross: $4.31M
25. (Sökarna) (1993)
108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Convicts return to life of crime after release from prison.
Directors: Peter Cartriers, Daniel Fridell | Stars: Liam Norberg, Ray Jones IV, Thorsten Flinck, Malou Bergman
Votes: 2,067
26. The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
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.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 625
27. I Married a Woman (1958)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
Director: Hal Kanter | Stars: George Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou, Jessie Royce Landis
Votes: 365
28. Southern Comforts (1971)
X | 80 min | Comedy
A beauty contest is staged in the barn of a dimwit called The Colonel. The beauty contest doesn't last too long as The Colonel and his buddies get down to business with the contestants.
Director: Bethel Buckalew | Stars: Jack Richesin, Jacob Often, John Tull, Judy Angel
Votes: 128
29. We're Not Married! (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
In separate stories, five wedded couples learn that they are not legally married.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Victor Moore, Fred Allen
Votes: 1,790
30. The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Gino Cervi, Andrea Checchi, Ivan Desny
Votes: 1,514
31. Cool Breeze (1972)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
Thalmus is the leader for a group of criminals who gather in L.A. to rob a bank. Their goal is to find a new bank.
Director: Barry Pollack | Stars: Thalmus Rasulala, Judy Pace, Julian Christopher, Lincoln Kilpatrick
Votes: 300 | Gross: $1.18M
32. Girl Crazy (1943)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young philandering playboy is sent to a College, somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.
Directors: Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland
Votes: 1,642 | Gross: $3.77M
33. Jeanne Eagels (1957)
Not Rated | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The life of 1920s actress Jeanne Eagels.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Drake
Votes: 643
34. True Beauty (2009–2010)
60 min | Reality-TV
Several models compete to be chosen as the most beautiful person, but they are not told that the real purpose of the competition is to chose the one with the most beautiful personal qualities such as character, virtue, honesty, etc.
Stars: Vanessa Lachey, Carson Kressley, Beth Stern, Taylor Bills
Votes: 381
35. Beauty's Revenge (1995 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
An obsessive small town beauty queen goes to great lengths to keep the love of her life from reconciling with his ex-girlfriend.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Courtney Thorne-Smith, Kyle Secor, Stephen Fanning, Tracey Gold
Votes: 347
36. The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson, Gene Evans
Votes: 716
37. No Contest (1995)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Andrew Dice Clay takes over a hotel during a beauty pageant taking several pageant contestants hostage since one of them is a rich senator's daughter.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Shannon Tweed, Robert Davi, Andrew Dice Clay, Roddy Piper
Votes: 797
38. Convention City (1933)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell, Mary Astor
Votes: 65
39. Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold (1978 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama
A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Kim Basinger, Vivian Blaine, Fabian, Tab Hunter
Votes: 170
40. Of Time and the City (2008)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Biography
A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Terence Davies, George Harrison, Jack Hawkins, John Lennon
Votes: 1,929 | Gross: $0.03M
41. Die Beautiful (2016)
TV-14 | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
Friends attend the wake of Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman. They look back into the her life as she faces the adversities and triumphs of living as a transgender in Filipino society
Director: Jun Lana | Stars: Paolo Ballesteros, Christian Bables, Joel Torre, Gladys Reyes
Votes: 482
42. The Great American Girl Robbery (1979)
R | 87 min | Adventure, Crime, Sport
Cheerleading squads traveling on a bus to a state competition are kidnapped for ransom by former football players.
Director: Jeff Werner | Stars: Kristine DeBell, Jason Williams, Anthony Lewis, Wally Ann Wharton
Votes: 363
43. Fast and Furious (1939)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Rare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge much to her chagrin.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman
Votes: 687
44. Miss All-American Beauty (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After winning a beauty contest in Texas, a teen-aged girl is unprepared for the demands of travel, press conferences and interviews that go with winning the title and participating in a national beauty pageant.
Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: Diane Lane, Cloris Leachman, David Dukes, Jayne Meadows
Votes: 146
45. The Death of Ocean View Park (1979 TV Movie)
100 min | Thriller
A young woman starts to get visions of a disaster happening at a local amusement park.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Mike Connors, Diana Canova, Perry Lang, Caroline McWilliams
Votes: 145
46. A Woman's a Helluva Thing (2001 TV Movie)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the death of his estranged mother, a womanizer discovers that they had a lot in common.
Director: Karen Leigh Hopkins | Stars: Angus Macfadyen, Penelope Ann Miller, Ann-Margret, Kathryn Harrold
Votes: 104
47. Sombrero (1953)
Approved | 103 min | Musical, Romance
Adapted from the book, "Mexican Village," by Josefina Niggli, the film tells three interwoven love stories against the background of a feud between two villages. Cyd Charisse and Rick Jason... See full summary »
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Pier Angeli, Vittorio Gassman, Yvonne De Carlo
Votes: 274
48. The Great Masquerade (1974)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime
In order to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers, a cop is sent undercover to participate in a drag-queen beauty contest aboard a cruise ship.
Director: Alan Ormsby | Stars: Kaye Stevens, Roberts Blossom, Gay Perkins, Frank Logan
Votes: 80
49. Bunny Yeager's Nude Camera (1963)
73 min | Comedy
Dedicated to the wholesome feminine type of glamour, workaholic Bunny Yeager shoots nude after nude while giving us the scoop on what photographing naked cheesecake is all about.
Director: Barry Mahon | Stars: Bunny Yeager, Bud Irwin, Walter McClane, Harold Chaskin
Votes: 17
50. Holiday Camp (1947)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Flora Robson, Dennis Price, Jack Warner, Hazel Court
Votes: 423