Eating disorder movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant eating disorder movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, psychological, serious, touching, captivating and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with eating disorder, mental illness, anorexia, teenager, illness, family relations, youth, friendship, teenage girl and obsession plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Germany, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as eating disorder: Sharing the Secret (2000), Little Miss Perfect (2016), To the Bone (2017), Hunger Point (2003), Red Band Society (2014), Perfect Body (1997), A Girl Is a Girl (1999), My Skinny Sister (2015), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Starving in Suburbia (2014).

List of eating disorder movies

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Sharing the Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eating disorder, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, teenage daughter, bulimia, family relations, family life, parent child relationship, starvation, obsession, physical appearance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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Little Miss Perfect (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An overambitious high school freshman tries to control her life by controlling her weight.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, thought provoking
Plot: anorexia, eating disorder, weight loss, self harm, student, high school, teenager, family problems, peer pressure, society, child illness, school ...
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 6.8
 54K
To the Bone (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Style: bleak, captivating, motivational, emotional, teen ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: eating disorder, illness, anorexia, therapy, suicide, sister sister relationship, self harm, psychology, mental health, mental illness, mental disorder, relationship problems ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, arizona
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 5.4
 660
Hunger Point (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Meet the Hunters your typical all-American family: two committed parents and two lovely daughters. However, looks can be deceiving because this family is plagued by the nit-picking comments of an overzealous mother determined to keep her daughters ...
Style: psychological, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot: eating disorder, mental illness, dysfunctional family, family relations, anorexia, mental institution, obsession, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, physical appearance, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
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The Best Little Girl in the World (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Casey Powell is a young teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nevosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-induced vomiting, because of her troubled home life and problems at school in which her ...
Style: psychological, contemplative, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: eating disorder, psychopath, mental disorder, trouble, self-help, mental illness, anorexia, bulimia, unfulfillment, youth, hopes, misfit ...
Time: 80s
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Red Band Society (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Children and teenagers become friends in a hospital where they are all patients. Together they try to escape the sad reality to create their own world with their own codes , while the nursing staff do their best to bring them a little happiness ...
Style: touching, captivating, compassionate, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, medical, doctors and patients, teenager, friendship, sick child, medicine, anorexia, child cancer, youth, hospital, friends ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.1
 1K
Perfect Body (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Obsessed with perfection, young gymnast Andie Bradley nearly starves herself to realize her dream of making the Olympic gymnastics team.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, sincere, psychotronic
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: eating disorder, bulimia, gymnastics, gymnast, anorexia, self harm, mental illness, weight loss, illness, mental health, dancing, love ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
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A Girl Is a Girl (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Imagine "High Fidelity" as directed by Jean Luc Godard and you've basically got the gist of "A Girl is a Girl."
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexual, humorous ...
Plot: eating disorder, sorority, love and romance, lifestyle, obsession, battle of the sexes, couple relations, buddies, singleness, mental illness, wooing, twentysomething life ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada
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My Skinny Sister (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth ...
Style: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anorexia, mental illness, eating disorder, teenage girl, family relations, siblings relations, sisterhood, kids in trouble, youth, parents and children, mental disorder, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
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Starving in Suburbia (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what ...
Style: psychological, social, disturbing, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: anorexia, mental illness, eating disorder, physical appearance, obsession, weight loss, dancer, internet, family problems, social issues, social problems, imaginary friend ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 11K
Flesh and Bone (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A talented but emotionally troubled dancer runs away to New York City and quickly finds herself immersed in the cutthroat world of professional ballet.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, stylized, bleak, serious ...
Plot: ballet, dancer's life, mentally unstable, incest, dancer, eating disorder, dancing, brother sister incest, ballerina, dance, trauma, incestuous relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, pittsburgh
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For the Love of Nancy (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
Style: educational, neurotic, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eating disorder, mental illness, anorexia, depression, psychology, trouble, problem, psychological disorder, illness, college, weight loss, refusing to eat ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york
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 7.8
 516
Starved (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Starved is an FX Network television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders, who met at a "shame-based" support group called Belt ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: eating disorder, mental illness, support group, friendship, physical appearance, stock broker, dark humor, obsession, lifestyle, misfit, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 3K
Body (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga might try to harm herself, since she's still grieving over her recently deceased mother, sends her to see a psychiatrist, Anna, who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: lawyer, anorexia, psychiatrist, regret, family relations, parent child relationship, dealing with death, parents and children, faked death, father daughter relationship, coming of age, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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 6.0
 3K
Feed (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
Style: touching, psychological, disturbing, suspense, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anorexia, eating disorder, love, youth, hospital, hospitalization, life is a bitch, adaptation, mental illness, illness, redemption, society ...
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When Friendship Kills (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two friends keep their vomiting a secret until one friend almost dies.
Style: psychological, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: eating disorder, bulimia, anorexia, disability, teen social issues, illness, troubled teen, love, self harm, depression, mental illness, trouble ...
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 32K
Insatiable (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.
Style: ironic, cynical, twisted, dark comedy, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: beauty pageant, teenager, classmate classmate relationship, overweight, weight loss, teenage girl, high school, bullying, lawyer, fat girl, eating disorder, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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 8.0
 819K
Black Swan (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style: psychological, suspense, cerebral, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, insanity, dancing, character study, surrealism, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, paranoia, showbiz ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, bolivia, manhattan new york city
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 5.2
 765
Truth or Dare (1997)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Summer holiday is over. Nora begins sixth grade and is drawn to intrigues and doesn't really know what side she's on. Or wants to be on. On one hand she feels sorry for the bullied Karin, one the other hand she wants to be friends with ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience: teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: teenage girl, bully, shoplifting, friend, female protagonist, coming of age, children, eating disorder, truth or dare, high school, bullying, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
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 6.0
 374
Dying to Dance (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young man must teach a woman to dance - at any cost.
Style: inspirational, thought provoking
Plot: eating disorder, ballet, dancing, anorexia, ballerina, dancer, teenager, food, weight loss, malnutrition, parents, jealous woman ...
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 1K
Bad Habits (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The first feature film from director Simon Bross, the drama Bad Habits shows how a person's approach to food greatly affects one's life. Jimena Ayala plays a nun named Matilde who believes that eating next to nothing will help God stop the ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, serious, sexy ...
Plot: physical appearance, addiction, dysfunctional family, infidelity, obsession, religions or cults, life is a bitch, parents and children, family problems, mentally unstable, couples, sexual dysfunction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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The Unspeakable Act (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie fights the intrusion of reality on her idyllic childhood world
Style: psychological, captivating, thought provoking, mumblecore
Plot: incest, coming of age, house party, brother sister relationship, incestuous desire, loneliness, single mother, friendship, teenager, jealousy, facebook, filmmaking ...
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 6.2
 320
Eating (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At a spacious house in Los Angeles, Helene is turning 40-years old and her friends whom include French filmmaker Martine, house guest Sophie, and Lydia throw her a party. But also there is Kate a friend turning 30, and Sadie a Hollywood film agent ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: food, eating disorder, restaurant, wine, friendship, nightlife, thirtysomething life, couples, friends, gender, feminism, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 80s
Is relevant ?
 4.9
 239
Westerland (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the midst of a freezing winter on the island of Sylt, Cem comes across Jesús, who is on the verge of committing suicide. The two young men become fast friends, with their friendship unexpectedly threatening to develop into something more. Cem ...
Style: tense, touching, psychological, sexy, melancholic ...
Plot: male nudity, gay, mental illness, eating disorder, gay subtext, gay interest, gay couple, couple relations, love, gay relationship, love and romance, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 1K
301/302 (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two obsessive-compulsives, a chef and an anorexic writer, are neighbors in an apartment building. The chef (301) tries to entice her neighbor to eat with fabulous meals. The writer (302) refuses to eat, and this refusal begins a turbulent ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, surreal, neurotic, tense ...
Plot: food, obsession, cooking, writers, eating disorder, cooking and food, investigation, cannibalism, divorce, neighbor, gays and lesbians, perversion ...
Time: 90s
Place: korea, asia
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 184K
Saltburn (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never ...
Style: psychological thriller, dark comedy, psychological, psychosexual thriller, satirical ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: obsession, college, class differences, college student, student, country estate, university, drug use, murder, teenage boy, butler, male masturbation ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, oxford university, united kingdom
Is relevant ?
 4.6
 1K
Queen Sized (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style: feel good, uplifting, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friend, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, underdog, prom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south carolina
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 1K
Huge (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Huge is a short lived American drama series that aired on the ABC Family television network. The series is based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Sasha Paley. The hour-long drama series revolves around eight teens sent to a summer weight ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, fat girl, overweight, summer camp, weight loss, camp counselor, self discovery, social relations, youth, friendship, misfit, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 48K
Swimming Pool (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this ...
Style: sexy, sensual, ambiguous ending, art house, suspense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: murder, twists and turns, swimming, swimming pool, writers, sex, obsession, porn, self discovery, writer's life, lust, voyeurism ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, cote d'azur, europe, south of france, london ...
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