| God Help the Girl (2014) | 6.4 | |
| Little Miss Perfect (2016) | 4.9 | |
| Body (2015) | 6.4 | |
| Feed (2017) | 6.0 | |
| Heartstopper (2022) | 8.5 |
Anorexia movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant anorexia movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, realistic, touching, serious, captivating and disturbing films and TV shows about / with anorexia, eating disorder, teenager, mental illness, love, coming of age, hospital, friendship, illness and bulimia plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as anorexia: Little Miss Perfect (2016), My Skinny Sister (2015), Overshadowed (2017), Starving in Suburbia (2014), To the Bone (2017), The Wasting (2017), Red Band Society (2014), Feed (2017), Perfect Body (1997), First Love (2004).
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List of anorexia movies
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 ...
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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: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Imo used to be sparkly, vivacious and outgoing. Recently however she’s becoming withdrawn, gaunt and obsessed with exercise. The reason? Her new “best friend” Anna.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
anorexia, teenager, obsession, new friend, friendship, vlogger, confession, parents and children, youth, family relations, friends, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain
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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
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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: 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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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?
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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, 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, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Vittorio is looking for a woman who matches his ideal. Through a classified ad he meets Sonia, a sweet, pleasant, intelligent girl. However, she weighs 125 pounds -- which according to Vittorio is way too much. A goldsmith by trade, Vittorio is ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, disturbing, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
sex horror, starvation, destructive relationship, love affair, couples, human nature, haunted by the past, sexual dysfunction, sexual relations, infidelity, anorexia, imprisonment ...
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.
Style:
touching, melancholic, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sex, anorexia, fall in love, teenage protagonist, love, older man teenage girl relationship, obsessive love, older man younger woman relationship, biopic, internet culture, sex with a minor, eating disorder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
After months in recovery for an eating disorder, 16-year-old Mia devises a bucket list of quintessential teen experiences to make up for lost time.
Style:
satirical, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
anorexia, lgbt, teenage girl, childhood, friendship, female protagonist, life, disease, satire, teenager, teenage life, changing lives ...
Place:
london
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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: 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, anorexia, ballet, dancing, ballerina, dancer, teenager, food, malnutrition, weight loss, jealous woman, teenage daughter ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the Irish Midlands of 1859 an English nurse, Lib Wright, goes to a tiny village to observe what some see as a medical anomaly and others a miracle, that a girl has survived without food for months. Tourists flock to see 11-year-old Anna ...
Style:
dramatic, costume drama, period piece, psychological, harsh ...
Plot:
anorexia, catholic, starvation, brother sister incest, nurse, renaissance, murder, tourist, survival, young girl, young woman, love ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
ireland, london, australia
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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?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lydia is an overweight sales clerk in a trendy home furnishings store, nearing 30. Though she is a member of a Fat Acceptance Group (a movement dedicated to fighting prejudice against overweight people), she is still struggling with complex feelings ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, touching, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
support group, friendship, anorexia, unlikely couple, friends, looking for love, human nature, misfit, physical appearance, acceptance, obesity, real estate agent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.
Style:
sexy, tense, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
dominatrix, bondage, male nudity, sexual relations, murder, couples, love and romance, destructive relationship, love affair, fetish, love, strong sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, australia
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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
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Polseres vermelles and Pulseras Rojas in Spanish, is a Catalan television show. The first season aired on TV3 in 2011, with a second season planned for 2013. The show was created by Albert Espinosa and draws on his childhood experiences as a ...
Style:
serious, touching, humorous, medical drama, rough ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, illness, fighting illness, child cancer, youth, overcoming, teenage life, anorexia, patient, doctors and patients, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, spain
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
Is relevant?
3K
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Eun-young is a woman cursed with great beauty. Wherever she goes, she gets unwanted admiration from men and jealousy from women. One day, one of her stalking admirer invades her place.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, creepy, tension ...
Plot:
beauty, home invasion, rape, disfigured face, female protagonist, sexual abuse, relationship problems, violence, life is a bitch, violent, obsession, curse ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
High Feather is a 10-episode educational television show which ran on PBS in the 1980s; each episode was 30 minutes long. The program's name came from the Old English expression "High Fettle", meaning enjoying life and cheerfully ...
Style:
educational, informative, uplifting, heartfelt, realistic
Audience:
family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
summer camp, nutrition, friendship, teenager, self esteem, personal growth, anorexia, obesity, coming of age, peer pressure, camp counselor, boy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york state, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Hans and Anna – together they make the Hannas: A hefty couple who love to cook. They meet sisters Kim and Nicola, both anorexic and excitingly different. Opposites attract, however, and anything goes, so the Hannas each wind up having an affair ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
infidelity, relationships, couples, cooking, love, intimacy, sisters, character study, passion, sexual tension, seduction, affair ...
Time:
1930s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
anorexia, mental illness, blonde, songwriter, friendship, music band, pop music, music, friends, musician's life, self discovery, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 1969, year 1981, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
glasgow scotland, scotland, edinburgh scotland
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
Style:
sexy, realistic, stylized, bad ending, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage life, internet, youth, high school, teenage girl, coming of age, sex scene, teenager, infidelity, affair, depression, video game ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
100K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Style:
sexy, captivating, cynical, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
youth, teenage life, high school, sexual relations, underage drinking, drug, friends, friendship, high school life, crush, looking for sex, party ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, canada
Is relevant?
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: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
horse, horse race, racehorse, follow your dream, underdog, jockey, against the odds, marriage, self made man, racing, abuse, life philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1938, 2000s, year 2003, 1920s ...
Place:
california, pasadena california, los angeles, chicago, albuquerque new mexico ...
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