20 Best Movies About Beauty, Makeup, and Fashion
Beauty, makeup, and fashion have always been popular topics in the film industry, with countless movies depicting the glitz and glamour of these industries. From the classic Hollywood films of the Golden Age to modern indie productions, the world of beauty, makeup, and fashion has been captured on the big screen in countless ways. The films on this list dive into the world of beauty and fashion, exploring the ways in which it can shape and change one’s life.
Whether you’re a makeup enthusiast, a fashion lover, or simply someone who is interested in the beauty industry, the films on this list are sure to captivate and entertain. So sit back, relax, and get ready to be inspired and entertained by the best movies about beauty, makeup, and fashion.
Chasing Beauty (2013)
Chasing Beauty delves into the inner workings of the modeling industry, providing a unique perspective on the struggles and sacrifices that models face in their pursuit of success. From the glitzy covers of magazines to the behind-the-scenes reality, the film explores the impact of the beauty business on the physical and mental well-being of models, both men and women.
The film delves into the demanding physical standards, financial and emotional investments, and moral dilemmas that models must navigate in order to achieve success. Through interviews with supermodels, photographers, agents, designers, plastic surgeons, make-up artists, and psychologists, the film raises important questions about the true meaning of beauty and whether it is worth the cost.
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Neely O’Hara (Patty Duke) struggles to make it onto Broadway. When she finally achieves her goal, she finds herself at the top of the path of success all alone. Anne (Barbara Parkins), a girl from a small town cannot resist the lights of New York. She gets a job as the secretary of Lyon Burke, a well-known entertainment industry lawyer whose clientele is the cream of showbiz (among them Neely O’Hara).
After Anne agrees to be a model replacement, she soon finds herself in the world of supermodels. Neely and Anne soon begin to compete for Lyon’s affection. Meanwhile, Jennifer (Sharon Tate), a rising star, is forced to make B movies to support herself and her demanding mother.
The Real Blonde (1997)
Joe (M. Modine) and Mary (C. Kecner) are young New Yorkers who have been living together in Manhattan for six years. Joe is an actor, but despite his great ambitions, he is already thirty-five years old and has neither a major role nor an agent. Therefore, he is forced to work in a restaurant as a waiter. Mary works as a makeup artist in a fashion house owned by the famous photographer Blair (M. Thomas).
As she earns more than Joe, she is forced to support them both by paying the bills. Finally, Joe manages to get a small role in Madonna’s music video through a very successful agent, which gives him hope that he could meet the famous star whom he has admired for a long time.
But here he will be disappointed: not only is the girl he is filming with not the real Madonna, but her doppelgänger – the sweet starlet Tina (E. Berkley), and that role is also very small. At the same time, his friend Bob (M. Caulfield), also a waiter at Joe’s restaurant, unexpectedly gets a bigger role in a popular television soap…
Aisha (2010)
Aisha is a young woman who finds herself constantly embroiled in the affairs of others. Despite her best intentions, she can’t help but involve herself in the lives of those around her. On the other hand, Arjun is a man who firmly believes in the principle of minding one’s own business. As they navigate the social hierarchy of upper-class Delhi, Aisha’s effervescent personality and impeccable sense of style draws in a diverse group of friends, including Pinky, her closest confidante, Shefali, a small-town girl, Randhir, a boy from West Delhi, and Dhruv, the quintessential hunk.
As Aisha takes it upon herself to play cupid for her friends, Arjun is determined to extricate her from the complex web of relationships she’s created and steer her clear of any potential conflicts. Will Aisha be able to orchestrate happy endings for all, or will Arjun’s interference lead to her downfall? Welcome to the world of Aisha, where matchmaking is as easy as 1-2-3, if only Arjun would stay out of her way.
Veere Di Wedding (2018)
Four young women embark on a journey in search of true love. Along the way, they deepen their bond as friends and support each other through the ups and downs of dating.
However, as with any strong friendship, there are also consequences to navigate and challenges to overcome. Despite any difficulties that may arise, these four girls remain determined to find their happily ever afters.
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Kirsten Dunst plays a princess with a difficult fate who married the young and indifferent French king Louis XVI. Feeling isolated in a royal court full of scandals and intrigues, Marie Antoinette defies both the court and the regiment by behaving like a rock star…
Miss Congeniality (2000)
One of the world’s most beloved actresses, Sandra Bullock, is the star of this unusual comedy about a girl who will have to undergo a complete transformation in order to solve her task of catching a dangerous killer. When a serial killer hints that he has chosen the future Miss USA as his next target, the FBI decides to include one of his agents in the selection, whose task will be to observe the development of the situation first-hand without being noticed.
The only serious candidate for the task is grumpy and somewhat tomboyish Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock). Gracie presents herself as Miss New Jersey, and the whole team is led by the great seducer Eric Matthews (Benjamin Bratt), who fails to remain immune to her, invisible to others, charms.
The organizers of the election, Kathy Morningside (Candice Bergen) and Stan Fields (William Shatner), are at first horrified by the idea of ​​an unsophisticated agent, but they try to solve the situation by hiring the experienced Victor Melling (Michael Caine), who should transform Gracie into a legitimate candidate.
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Young journalist Andy Sachs (A. Hathaway), who dreams of a serious career in prestigious magazines such as “The New Yorker” and “Vanity Fair”, applies for a job interview with the second assistant of the powerful Miranda Priestly (M. Streep), editor of a fashion magazine. Runway”, known for being cruel, exhausting their employees and dressing in Prada clothes.
At first, Miranda dismissively rejects Andy, dressed carelessly and without any sense of fashion, but she is intrigued by the girl’s intelligence and openness and decides to give her a chance and a job. Miranda’s first assistant, the ambitious and hardworking Emily (E. Blunt), tries to teach Andy the many duties, which at first is unsuccessful and maddening. Miranda’s fashion director, Nigel (S. Tucci), helps Andy by teaching her how to dress and behave in a society that holds high fashion as a core social value.
Andy’s transformation from a messy girl to an attractive glamorous assistant annoys her boyfriend Nate (A. Grenier), and her many obligations leave them very little time for their private life. Over time, Andy manages to win Miranda’s respect, but success at work arouses Andy’s dissatisfaction and restlessness because she increasingly betrays the principles she believes in and is increasingly excluded from the world she really loves and belongs to.
Dark Shadows (2012)
In 1750, Joshua and Naomi Collins and their young son Barnabas left England for America, to start a new life and build a fishing empire in the coastal town named after their surname. 20 years pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet. He is a rich, powerful and incorrigible playboy until he falls in love with a beauty named Josette DuPres (Bella Heathcote) and breaks the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). Angelique is a witch in every sense of the word and she curses him, giving him a fate worse than death – she turns him into a vampire and buries him alive.
Two centuries later, Barnabas is freed from the tomb and dawns in a completely different world. The year is 1972, and he is a stranger in an even stranger time. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find his estate in disrepair and the remaining members of the Collins family harboring dark secrets.
At the head of the matriarchy is Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer), to whom Barnabas confides his true identity.
His strange behavior arouses the suspicion of the psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), who has no idea what kind of trouble she’s about to dig up.
Barnabas is determined to restore the family’s glory, but standing in his way is the leading resident of Collinsport – Angie, who bears an uncanny resemblance to his very old acquaintance.
Also living in Collinwood Manor is Elizabeth’s brother Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Roger’s precious ten-year-old son David Collins (Gully McGrath). Collinwood is looked after by Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley), and there’s David’s nanny Victoria Winters (Bella Heathcote), who, mysteriously, looks just like Barnabas’ one true love, Josette.
Cleopatra (1963)
The story follows eighteen tumultuous years that led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) meets Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) and plans to lure him into her boudoir in order to stage a union with the Romans and thus manage to keep her position in Egypt. When Caesar is mortally wounded in the Roman Senate, Cleopatra is left without allies and Egypt is unprotected.
The Roman general Mark Antony (Richard Burton) comes to her aid, and she seduces him, hoping that he will then be her new protector. But, because of Cleopatra’s charm, an extraordinary and domineering general turns into his opposite. During the Battle of Actium, the Roman troops led by Mark Antony were defeated and Cleopatra withdrew her troops, cursing Antony and his army.
With Egypt in danger, Antony and Cleopatra, ill-fated lovers, face off for the last time as enemy troops roll in…
Funny Face (1957)
In search of a location for his next shoot, famous fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) stumbles upon a bookstore in Greenwich Village. He decides to shoot his photo session there, and when the shoot is over, the bookstore is left in disarray, which freaks out saleswoman Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn). Dick offered to help the saleswoman. Later, while looking through the photos he took in the bookstore, Dick notices Jo in the background of one of them and is delighted with how she turned out in the shot.
However, he is not the only one intrigued by her appearance. Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), the editor of the leading fashion magazine Dick works for, offers Jo a contract. Jo reluctantly accepts the contract, mainly because it involves a trip to Paris. However, over time, her resistance to her new occupation subsides. Jo begins to enjoy both her work and the company of the handsome photographer.
Mahogany (1975)
Tracy, a determined young woman from the impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago, works tirelessly to put herself through fashion school with the goal of becoming a renowned designer.
Her ambition takes her to the fashion capital of Rome, where she finds herself at a crossroads between her love for a man and her newfound success in the industry. As she strives to achieve her dreams, she must make a difficult decision between pursuing her passion and following her heart.
Grease (1978)
California, 1959. South American Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Australian Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) are very much in love. They spend time on the beach, but when the holidays are over, they realize that they both go to the same school. Danny is the leader of a group that wears black jackets, and Sandy hangs out with the Pink Ladies, girls who dress in pink.
Because of this relationship, Zunko becomes an object of ridicule among his friends. Danny and Sandy try to be as similar as possible so they can be together. Some songs from “Brilliant” such as “You’re The One I Want”, “Hopelessly Devoted to You”, “Summer Nights” and “Greased Lightnin” became hits on the music charts.
Clueless (1995)
Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) is a rich, beautiful, and popular student at a prestigious high school in Beverly Hills, who is very skilled at persuading everyone to do what she wants. But what she never manages to do is force a better grade from her professor. Therefore, together with her friend Dionne (Stacey Dash), she decides to try to hook him up with one of their teachers, in order to make him happier and more relaxed during the assessment.
At the same time, two friends turn new student Tai (Brittany Murphy) into a popular girl worthy of hanging out with them. In the midst of all these missions and entanglements, Cher realizes that she would really like to find the right boyfriend and that life consists of much more elements than just fancy clothes and school popularity.
Death Becomes Her (1992)
Lonely actress Madeline (Meryl Streep) steals another potential fiance from her best friend Helen (Goldie Hawn), this time plastic surgeon Ernest (Bruce Willis). Depressed and angry, Helen has a nervous breakdown and ends up in a hospital for the mentally ill, putting on at least three times her weight.
When Helen and Madeline meet after many years, Madeline is shocked at how well Helen looks – slimmer and more glamorous than ever before. Fearing that Helen will try to win over her unsuspecting fiancé, Madeline seeks supernatural services from a New Age mystic (Isabella Rossellini), who gives her an elixir whose instructions for use must be strictly followed, otherwise…
Burlesque (2010)
Ali (the debutante in a film role – the mega-popular singer Christina Aguilera), is a girl from a small town in the state of Iowa whose life is about to change dramatically. Tess, the owner of a once-respectable club, hires her as a waitress, so Ali escapes his dark past and quickly falls in love with the burlesque life.
With the support of his new friends, Ali will fulfill his dream and start performing on stage. However, things are about to change dramatically when her beautiful voice begins to reverberate through the Lounge and she herself becomes the main attraction in town…
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Beautiful Andy (M. Ringwald) lives with her unemployed father Jack (H. D. Stanton) and dreams of a scholarship that would ensure her continued education at university.
Duckie (J. Cryer), the good boy next door, is secretly in love with her, but Andy only feels friendship for him. Her heart is drawn to their mutual schoolmate Blame (A. McCarthy), but between the rich young man and the poor girl lies a chasm of social differences.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Paul Varjak (G. Peppard) is a young writer who often has problems finding inspiration, and is burdened by his relationship with a wealthy woman. One day he moves into a new apartment and is attracted to the pretty, spunky Holly (A. Hepburn), a girl who lives alone in the apartment below his. He befriends her and notices that she loves going out on expensive dates where she wins over her with her charm and wit.
A romantic game begins to develop between the two of them, but he suddenly realizes that this girl’s frivolity is only her facade: namely, she suffers from neuroses, every relationship ends with her leaving a man after receiving expensive gifts, and she regularly visits a man who is serving a prison sentence punishment in Sing-Sing…
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)
Cute but not very ambitious blondes Romy White (M. Sorvino) and Michele Weinberger (L. Kudrow) have been best friends since high school. They live together in Los Angeles where Romy works as a cashier in a public garage and Michele is unemployed. One day, Heather Mooney (J. Garofalo), their classmate from school in Tucson, appears in the garage.
She pretends to be important and tells Romy that she invented cigarette paper that burns quickly. On the way, he mentions that he will soon go to the 10th graduation party that Romy and Michele forgot to invite to. The two friends first recall all the humiliations they experienced at school due to love misunderstandings and bad grades.
And then they decide to take revenge on their colleagues by presenting themselves as two successful businesswomen who invented sticky notes (post-it) on which messages and notes can be written. Romy and Michele even borrow a luxury car from the garage where Romy works and show up in style at the party. However, not everything will go as they would like.
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
In Mount Rose, a small town in Minnesota, a beauty pageant is held every year for teenage girls, in which most of the local girls participate simply because they have nothing else to do and because it is a tradition. However, some contestants have more serious, concrete motives. Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst) wants to get money for school fees, so that she can ensure that she can leave the small town and become like her role model, the journalist Diana Sawyer.
Rebecca Leeman (Denise Richards) is the daughter of the richest man in town, and her mother Gladys (Kirstie Alley) is a former winner of the competition and the head of the organizing committee, which is why there are rumors that the outcome of the competition is pre-arranged. There is also a television crew in the city that will cover all the events surrounding the elections. But even before the start, unusual events begin to happen.
