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, serious, touching, captivating and disturbing films and TV shows about / with anorexia, eating disorder, teenager, mental illness, hospital, illness, coming of age, love, family relations and youth plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as anorexia: Little Miss Perfect (2016), Overshadowed (2017), My Skinny Sister (2015), Starving in Suburbia (2014), To the Bone (2017), Red Band Society (2014), The Wasting (2017), Feed (2017), Perfect Body (1997), When Friendship Kills (1996).

List of anorexia movies

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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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 7.4
 100
Overshadowed (2017)
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 Recently however she’s becoming withdrawn, gaunt and obsessed with exercise.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: tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: anorexia, teenager, new friend, obsession, friendship, confession, vlogger, parents and children, youth, family relations, friends, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain
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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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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
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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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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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 4.0
 177
The Wasting (2017)
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
Plot: anorexia, ghost, coming of age, nightmare, immigration, first love, sleep disorder, teenage girl, teenager, eating disorder, father daughter relationship, sexual awakening
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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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 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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Everything Now (2023)
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.
Audience: teen drama
Plot: anorexia, female protagonist, friend, childhood, friendship, teenage girl, mental illness, sapphic, bucket list, lgbt, eating disorder, coming of age ...
Place: london
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 6.5
 345
Disfigured (2008)
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, friends, unlikely couple, looking for love, human nature, misfit, physical appearance, anorexia, obesity, acceptance, real estate agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 6.6
 2K
First Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 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: disturbing, sexual, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: starvation, obsession, sadomasochism, dangerous attraction, destructive relationship, love affair, couples, human nature, haunted by the past, sexual dysfunction, infidelity, sexual relations ...
Place: italy, europe
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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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 8.2
 81
Rough Winds (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three devastating teenage stories fuse beneath the calm of a quiet, average neighborhood.
Style: teen
Plot: suicide attempt, closeted gay, anorexia, high school, suburbs, teenager, post traumatic stress disorder, coming of age
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Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992)
Genre: Short, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Lifestories: Families in Crisis is an American drama television series that premiered on HBO on August 1, 1992.
Plot: eating disorder, abortion, homeless, gender, life is a bitch, youth, homicide, transplant, alcoholism, hiv, organ transplant, obstacle ...
Time: 90s
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God Help the Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
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, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: anorexia, mental illness, friendship, music band, pop music, music, friends, self discovery, musician's life, blonde, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: year 1969, year 1981, 20th century, 21st century
Place: glasgow scotland, scotland, edinburgh scotland
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 5.4
 2K
Abzurdah (2015)
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, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sex, fall in love, teenage protagonist, older man teenage girl relationship, love, obsessive love, sex with a minor, anorexia, older man younger woman relationship, biopic, internet culture, autobiography ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina
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The Red Band Society (2011)
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, illness, terminal illness, fighting illness, overcoming, child cancer, youth, teenage life, anorexia, patient, friendship, doctors and patients ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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 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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 6.6
 43K
The Wonder (2022)
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, psychological, costume drama, harsh, suspense ...
Plot: brother sister incest, village, catholic, murder, survival, tourist, young girl, love, young woman, stranger, incest, renaissance ...
Time: 1860s, 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: ireland, australia, london
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Men, Women & Children (2014)
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: realistic, sexy, bad ending, dramatic, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage life, internet, youth, high school, teenage girl, sex scene, infidelity, sexual content, coming of age, parenthood, depression, video game ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.8
 7K
2:37 (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a ...
Style: psychological, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, brother sister incest, rape, youth, high school life, teenage life, teenage love, social relations, suicide, incest rape, society, social misfits ...
Place: south australia, adelaide south australia, australia
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 6.2
 6K
I Smile Back (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: mental illness, female nudity, female orgasm, addiction, slut, violence against women, unfaithful wife, slutty attitude, sex with friend's wife, whore, slutty wife, horny woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
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 5.9
 95
Revoloution (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A violent, street-fighter becomes a communicator
Style: independent film
Plot: boxing, drug, fighter, self-help, crash, bulimia, pain, brain, triumph, struggle, disorder, depression ...
Place: new york
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Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks! (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!, Ileana Pietrobruno's triumph of mid-vaginal modernism masterfully confronts the surreal nature of societal attitudes towards the female body. Beautifully shot at Riverview Hospital (formerly an insane asylum), ...
Style: experimental, expressionism, avant garde
Plot: cosmetic surgery, fanaticism, male female relationship, insane asylum, psychiatric patient, surgery, sleeping, health, mental patient, feminism, mental health, ballerina ...
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 6.5
 145
Passover Fever (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Part funny part sad movie about a family Passover dinner.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: israeli, twins, family relations, single parent, dealing with death, nanny, eating disorder, family problems, couples, family gatherings, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: israel
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My Summer of Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, coming of age, teenage life, gays and lesbians, women, summer, sex, countryside, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england
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