Movies: Body image

A charming valentine to women born with a space between their teeth, ranging from lighthearted whimsy to a deeper look at issues like self-esteem and societal attitudes toward standards of beauty. Interviews were conducted with over one hundred women...

A hep teen hears a tune on the jukebox at the malt shop and calls his girl; She rounds up a crowd and soon the whole place is jumping....

A look at past diary entries reveals a teenage girl's struggles with body image and depression...

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 personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions....

Documentary in which singer Alesha Dixon, concerned about the increasing pressure on women to conform to an ideal body type, investigates the practice of airbrushing and retouching that has become a staple of magazine photos. Keen to discover whether...

An average gay guy discovers a magic website that can change him into the fantasy man he desires, but there is a price to pay....

Six extra-ordinary people from around the world reveal their bodies and share their secrets in a unique experiment in search of their inner selves....

Personal stories taken from a survey on how women's lives are affected by a culture obsessed with body image and thinness....

A woman is tormented by her compulsion to stay thin....

Two childhood girl friends, Zoe and Nat, face the tumultuous changes of transitioning from middle to high school as their friendship drifts apart. Zoe, a cancer survivor, joins the crew team which exacerbates her body image & mental health struggles....

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black....

An insecure, porn-addicted guy desperately tries to find a sexual partner through a dating site for gay men, while struggling with complexes regarding his body and size....

After years of wanting to look like those who grace the covers of magazines, Frances ends up making headlines in a different way....

Francisco is unhappy about his body....

A theater actor with crippling body image insecurities must face his greatest fears when he is asked to perform nude on stage in his dream role....

When Lavenza, a 19th-century noblewoman, overhears her husband complaining about her looks, she turns herself into his ideal wife by thrifting the body parts from all the women he desires....

Penis extension surgery is a booming business in the UK and we have exclusive access to a clinic that promises to make your manhood wider and longer for £7,000. Truck driver Leon is about to go under the knife for a second time to get an even bigger ...

A girl gets sent a demeaning note from an anonymous source....

A socially awkward girl uses the local swimming pool as a wormhole into fantasy. She dives underwater where she imagines herself as a marine creature, alternately graceful and predatory. (As described by Simon Sellars, 2008) Created as part of the SB...