Oculto a las miradas de todos los ciudadanos de París, en lo alto del campanario de la catedral de Notre Dame, vive Quasimodo. Su tutor, el juez Frollo, no le permite bajar nunca del Campanario. En compañía de tres simpáticas gárgolas de piedra, Victor, Hugo y Laverne, Quasimodo pasa las horas observando el bullicioso ir y venir de la gente. Hasta que un día, decide bajar a escondidas y conoce a la bella Esmeralda, con la que vivirá su mayor aventura.
“Keep it clean!” – The new president is serious about that, including looks. When Paul, whose large jug ears are quite apparent on class photo day, and some of the other “ugly” kids are taken on a surprise trip, they realize that the president wants to hide them away. On the run, Paul is helped by Sara, one of the “pretty” kids. They start an underground club to fight against the president. The movement soon turns into a revolution. The kids show the world that even children can rise up – and that you don’t have to be “pretty” to be a hero!
Johnny el guapo (Mickey Rourke) es conocido por este nombre debido a la terrible deformación de su cara. Está en prisión, donde paga por un robo en el que sus cómplices lo dejaron tirado asesinando, además, a su mejor amigo. La policía le propone salir, a cambio del nombre de los criminales, pero Johnny se resiste. Tiene su propio código moral y, además, sería un blanco inconfundible por su aspecto. Un cirujano plástico le ofrece la posibilidad de cambiar su rostro, de forma que, bajo otra identidad, comience de nuevo. Johnny acepta, y aunque todo parece haber salido bien, la cirugía no logra borrar ni sus recuerdos ni su pasado.
Natalie Bauer, una escritora que vive en Los Ángeles, se enamora de Josh Lin por una aplicación de citas y decide viajar a Nueva York para sorprenderlo en Navidad. Sin embargo, al llegar descubre que la han engañado y Josh no es quien decía ser: es un 'nerd' que ha usado las atractivas fotos de un tal Tag Abbott como cebo. Cuando Natalie descubre que el chico guapo de quien se enamoró, Tag, vive también en Nueva York, Josh se ofrece a prepararle una cita con él si ella finge ser su novia durante las vacaciones de Navidad.
Perspicaz mirada a la vida de una chica adolescente poco atractiva, que tiene que enfrentarse a padres poco afectivos, compañeros de clase esnob, un hermano mayor inteligente, una hermana menor muy guapa y sus propias inseguridades.
Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist, ça va sans dire), Antonio insults her in a fit of anger and in the fight she breaks off one of his teeth. Antonio now must travel across the country, going from dentist to dentist in search of someone who can make a crown that will suit his extra-large smile.
Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
Three boys from the slums of Manila find their luck has changed when one of them learns he's the heir of a rich man.
Produced by Alfred Higgins Productions with assistance from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Academic Support Center Film Library, Keep America Beautiful, Inc., and Keep Los Angeles Beautiful, Inc., the 1963 short film A Land Betrayed examines the various ways people have spread the “cancer of ugliness” across America and offers call-to-action solutions to combat the nation-wide problem.