Movies: Beauty

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A young queer girl is entered into an eerie beauty pageant, of unknown stakes, that ultimately turns against her....

Helen suffers from a rare fear of chalk. One day she feels encroached by several chalk figures in Helsinki and decides to confront her fear. In the Amos Rex museum, she discovers the works of Keith Haring in a catalogue and adapts his style to her ne...

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Subjects of Desire is a thought provoking film that examines the cultural shift in beauty standards towards embracing (or appropriating) Black aesthetics and features, deconstructing what we understand about race and the power behind beauty....

A proof by example of the existence of beauty within Seattle....

A young woman gets ready for a midnight party while remembering the past and pondering her life....

A boy in a gang of thieves gets fascinated by a figureskater as he hides from the cops....

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After their human test subjects turn into animalistic horrors, a small group of scientists barricade themselves in their laboratory, but they must balance moral conflict with survival as their botched creations attack....

A man in a grey, drab world is awakened to the beauty and happiness of the real world around him, as the spirits of nature take him on an adventure....

A story with no (real) narrative that just takes you through a holiday in Wales to show you how great it can be, whilst also trying to explore the creativity that cinematography and colour grading can present to you....

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A Mondo documentary that juxtaposes footage of death, carnage, and unpleasantness with scenes of inspiring and beautiful imagery....

Set in the beauty industry, colliding the worlds of glamour and body horror in a supernatural tale of one girl’s deadly pursuit of perfection....

A short story of the most important emotions of life, from birth to death, love and sexuality through pain and fear. It is a tribute to art and his disarming beauty....

An exploration of the link between science and beauty through the work of scientists at CERN, in Geneva....

A portrait of a woman recovering from cosmetic surgery in Miami....

Holly Woodlawn is an aimless, lovelorn beauty in this seventies silent short....

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