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, captivating, emotional and touching films and TV shows about / with eating disorder, anorexia, mental illness, teenager, teenage girl, coming of age, illness, bulimia, family relations and obsession plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as eating disorder: Sharing the Secret (2000), Hunger Point (2003), Starving in Suburbia (2014), To the Bone (2017), A Girl Is a Girl (1999), Perfect Body (1997), When Friendship Kills (1996), Starved (2005), Insatiable (2018), For the Love of Nancy (1994).
Best films
New films
| The Wonder (2022) | 6.6 | |
| By Day's End (2020) | 3.1 | |
| Everything Now (2023) | 6.8 | |
| Heartstopper (2022) | 8.5 | |
| Wellmania (2023) | 6.7 |
List of eating disorder movies
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:
realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
eating disorder, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage daughter, bulimia, mental illness, family relations, family life, parent child relationship, starvation, obsession, physical appearance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
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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, mental institution, self harm, dysfunctional family, family relations, obsession, family problems, life is a bitch, physical appearance, parents and children, anorexia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nova scotia
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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, captivating, social, disturbing, neurotic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
eating disorder, anorexia, obsession, physical appearance, weight loss, dancer, internet, imaginary friend, social issues, family problems, social problems, lifestyle change ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
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, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
eating disorder, bulimia, psychopath, self-help, mental disorder, trouble, mental illness, anorexia, family relations, power relations, unfulfillment, elderly ...
Time:
80s
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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, emotional, teen, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
eating disorder, illness, anorexia, mental health, therapy, suicide, psychology, stepmother, mental illness, self harm, sister sister relationship, pregnancy ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
arizona, los angeles, phoenix arizona
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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, obsession, lifestyle, buddies, battle of the sexes, couple relations, singleness, mental illness, wooing, looking for love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada
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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:
realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, psychotronic
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
eating disorder, bulimia, gymnastics, anorexia, gymnast, mental illness, weight loss, self harm, illness, public humiliation, humiliation, mental health ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two friends keep their vomiting a secret until one friend almost dies.
Style:
emotional, psychological
Audience:
teens
Plot:
eating disorder, bulimia, anorexia, disability, desire, love, self harm, depression, mental illness, troubled teen, trouble, teen social issues ...
Is relevant?
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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, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
eating disorder, mental illness, support group, friendship, physical appearance, society, dishonesty, obsession, misfit, lifestyle, dark humor, stock broker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant?
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, dark comedy, twisted, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
beauty pageant, teenager, overweight, teenage girl, classmate classmate relationship, weight loss, eating disorder, high school, revenge, bullying, lawyer, fat girl ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
Style:
neurotic, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
eating disorder, anorexia, self harm, weight loss, refusing to eat, trouble, psychological disorder, bulimia, depression, psychology, problem, illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
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, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
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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:
psychological, touching, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anorexia, eating disorder, youth, love, hospital, hospitalization, life is a bitch, adaptation, illness, mental illness, redemption, society ...
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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:
sexy, psychological, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
anorexia, teenage girl, eating disorder, sisterhood, mental disorder, family relations, siblings relations, youth, kids in trouble, parents and children, illness, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
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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, teen drama
Plot:
teenage life, medical, doctors and patients, sick child, friendship, anorexia, medicine, child cancer, youth, teenager, hopes, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
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, female protagonist, shoplifting, bully, friend, coming of age, children, eating disorder, truth or dare, high school, bullying, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe
Is relevant?
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, self harm, weight loss, eating disorder, student, teenager, high school, family problems, peer pressure, teenage girl, child illness, social problems ...
Is relevant?
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, bleak, erotic, sensual ...
Plot:
ballet, dancer's life, mentally unstable, dancer, incest, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, ballerina, trauma, eating disorder, sex with brother, dancing ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, pittsburgh
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Les Diables (The Devils) chronicles the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
coming of age, kids in trouble, autism, brother sister incest, orphan, trauma, pursuit, on the run, brother sister relationship, incest, mentally challenged, child abandonment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
marseille, france
Is relevant?
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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, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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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:
sexy, touching, tense, melancholic, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, eating disorder, male nudity, lovers, couple relations, young lovers, love, gay subtext, gay, love and romance, gay interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Is relevant?
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:
sexy, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
physical appearance, dysfunctional family, addiction, parents and children, mentally unstable, religions or cults, infidelity, life is a bitch, family problems, obsession, couples, sexual dysfunction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Is relevant?
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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, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
anorexia, lawyer, regret, family relations, parent child relationship, dealing with death, parents and children, father daughter relationship, faked death, coming of age, dog, therapist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced ...
Style:
bloody, dark, psychological, creepy, sensual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cannibalism, coming of age, cannibal, meat, school, sex scene, vegetarian, sister sister relationship, party, peer pressure, body horror, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2017, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two unpopular queer girls in their senior year start a fight club to try to impress and hook up with cheerleaders so they can lose their virginities before graduation.
Style:
funny, captivating, entertaining, humorous, raunchy comedy ...
Plot:
lesbian, cheerleader, american football, lesbian interest, eating disorder, feminism, bisexual, woman, lgbt, female friendship, schoolgirl, schoolboy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Higher Ground is an American-Canadian drama action television show shot outside Vancouver, British Columbia. The series ran from January 14, 2000 - June 16, 2000 and aired on Fox Family. It stars Joe Lando, Hayden Christensen, A.J. Cook, Meghan Ory, ...
Style:
sincere, serious, emotional, touching, existential ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
troubled teen, juvenile delinquency, hardcase students, dedicated educator, rebellion, boarding school, youth, social misfits, social problems, understanding, teenage life, troublemaker ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
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, surreal, disturbing, neurotic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
food, obsession, writers, cooking, eating disorder, cooking and food, investigation, divorce, cannibalism, molestation, neighbor, cannibal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
korea, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Charlie, a highly strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...? Based on Alice Oseman's bestselling ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, teen, cute ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay relationship, lgbtq, gay love, gay couple, lgbt teen, gay lead character, gay interest, homosexuality, romantic relationship, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Riley has recently been discharged from rehab after struggling with food and body image issues. She soon meets Ethan and finds herself navigating the line between unconditional love and a new addiction.
Style:
emotional, entertaining, captivating, melancholic, psychological ...
Plot:
addiction, rehabilitation, food, eating disorder, love, mental health, relationships, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, rehabilitation center, illness ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A teenager in an English town struggles to come of age, braving sexual awakening and fighting her controlling parents by refusing to eat...until a nightmarish ghost appears that may be real, or may be a deadly creation of her starving body.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, emotional, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
anorexia, ghost, coming of age, eating disorder, sexual awakening, mental illness, female protagonist, trauma, hallucination, isolation, identity, family conflict ...
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