Malnutrition movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant malnutrition movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, touching, disturbing, emotional and psychological films and TV shows about / with malnutrition, death, family relations, survival, life is a bitch, society, hunger, youth, dog and danger plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as malnutrition: Dying to Dance (2001), Stations of the Cross (2014), Angela's Ashes (1999), Nobody Knows (2004), Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001), I'm Not Scared (2003), In the Crosswind (2014), The Night Porter (1974), Surviving with Wolves (2007), The Round Up (2010).

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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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Stations of the Cross (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with her family she follows the teachings of the Society of St. Pius XII and their traditionalist ...
Style: serious, art house, captivating, melancholic, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: religion, priest, self sacrifice, good versus evil, church, domineering mother, school, society, clergy, sacrifice, confession, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, seattle, britain
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 7.3
 23K
Angela's Ashes (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style: touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: toddlers, teen drama
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature, childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, europe ...
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 8.0
 31K
Nobody Knows (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story: In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Style: depressing, touching, serious, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: childhood, poverty, dysfunctional family, boy, young kid, innocence lost, children, child abandonment, brother brother relationship, tragedy, coming of age, family relations ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On November 4, 1970 on The CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported on a true, horrific story that was about to rock the country. A 13-year-old girl was discovered in the small Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia who was still in diapers, barely able to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, uplifting, touching, sincere ...
Plot: disability, human spirit, life is a bitch, self discovery, family problems, hopes, society, social misfits, doctors and patients, parents and children, mental illness, isolation ...
Time: 70s, year 1970
Place: los angeles, usa
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 7.4
 16K
I'm Not Scared (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: childhood, boy, kidnapping, coming of age, rescue, friendship, father son relationship, uncover truth, captivity, children, life is a bitch, bullying ...
Time: year 2003, year 1978, 70s, 21st century
Place: italy, southern italy, europe, venice, milan italy ...
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The Girl, the Mother and the Demons (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In an apartment a single and psychotic mother locks in herself and her daughter. Here, the demons are in control. Ti can hear her mother talking to the demons, and she sees her changing and confined face. But the demons that the mother speaks with ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: mental illness, child abuse, schizophrenia, abusive mother, malnutrition, child neglect, begging, isolation, social services, parent child relationship, fighting illness, mother and daughter ...
Place: eastern europe
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In the Crosswind (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband Erna and her daughter are ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: stalinism, deportation, world war two, hunger, ethnic cleansing, wartime life, getting home, life is a bitch, family in danger, separation from family, family relations, danger ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: siberia, soviet union, baltics, europe, russia ...
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The Night Porter (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style: psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hotel, sadomasochism, nazi, eroticism, guilt, dangerous attraction, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexual perversion, holocaust, sexual abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, germany, vienna, italy, frankfurt germany ...
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Surviving with Wolves (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her ...
Style: touching, uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: wolf, world war two, orphan, survival, feral child, little girl, human animal relationship, young heroes, danger, obsessive quest, missing person, wilderness ...
Place: belgium, germany, ukraine, europe, brussels
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 7.0
 9K
The Round Up (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style: emotional, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, german occupation, holocaust survivor, world war two, nazi, world war, against humanity, injustice, genocide, nazi concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place: france, vichy, paris france, middle east, europe ...
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 6.4
 21K
Chained (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, captivity, slave, misogynist, kidnapping, serial rapist, psychopath, abuse, childhood trauma, escape attempt, isolated house, slavery ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Sophie's Choice (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity ...
Style: depressing, sad, realistic, heartbreaking, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, world war two, against humanity, nazi, concentration camp, mental illness, wartime life, obsession, tragedy, melancholy, loneliness, relationships ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1982, 1930s, post world war two
Place: poland, new york, middle east, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Flowers in the Attic (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: incest, children, confined, survival, siblings relations, family life, estate, old mansion, child abuse, life is a bitch, danger, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
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 6.9
 43K
Ravenous (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Mexico, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale ...
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, wendigo, snow, winter, gory, death, camp, isolation, military, fort, survival ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 90s, 1800s, 1840s ...
Place: usa, california
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 7.8
 45K
Land of Mine (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million ...
Style: harsh, emotional, realistic, sentimental, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, german soldier, child soldier, prisoners of war, beach, minefield, survival, nazi, boy, childhood, war crime, pow ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, year 2015, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: denmark, germany
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 7.4
 220
Human (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
Style: tension
Plot: sea, stranded, boat, yacht, guilt, food, rain, suicide, murder, shipwreck, captain, water ...
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The Cool Lakes of Death (1982)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Tragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working the streets of Paris during the 1880s.
Plot: drug abuse, psychiatric hospital, woman, sex, female nudity, prostitute, mental institution, love triangle, sexual fantasy, sexual desire, prostitution, morphine ...
Time: 1870s, 1880s, 1860s
Place: paris france
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Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
Style: rough, realistic, serious, disturbing, historical drama ...
Plot: cavalry, native american, starvation, society, culture clash, homecoming, native, injustice, military, life is a bitch, wyatt earp, journey ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: usa, oklahoma, wyoming, kansas
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Rosemary's Baby (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
Story: Modern 3 hour mini-series adaptation of the classic novel by Ira Levin focusing on young Rosemary Woodhouse's suspicions that her neighbors may belong to a Satanic cult who are hell bent on getting one thing: the baby she is carrying.
Style: psychological, serious, surreal, scary, suspense ...
Plot: witchcraft, supernatural, couples, antichrist, woman in danger, devil, danger, occult, losing-it hero, manipulation, curses spells and rituals, deal with the devil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 6.9
 54K
Hesher (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
Style: bleak, realistic, independent film, serious, touching ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, grief, antisocial behavior, loner, depression, arson, life is a bitch, trauma, family problems, family drama, rebelliousness, coming of age ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Hurricane Season (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, hurricane katrina, rivalry, high school, sport team, basketball coach, contests and competitions, starting over, athlete and trainer, human spirit, cheerleader, society ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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 7.1
 17K
Safe (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. She "doesn't feel right," has unexplained headaches, congestion, a dry cough, nosebleeds, vomiting, and trouble breathing. Her family ...
Style: independent film, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak, allegory ...
Plot: allergy, psychiatrist, environment, psychology, suburbs, mental disorder, isolation, environmental, paranoia, contamination, female protagonist, housewife ...
Time: 80s, year 1995, 90s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 7.2
 253K
The Road (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style: bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, father son relationship, cannibalism, end of the world, dystopia, starvation, on the road, catastrophe ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Gian-Maria Volonte stars as a TV newscaster who journeys to a remote alpine village to interview a famed malnutrition expert. Upon his arrival, Volonte learns that there's an ongoing investigation in the village concerning the mysterious death ...
Plot: investigation, small town, interview, sociology, malnutrition, motorcycle, accidental death, road accident, hairdresser, witness, small village, television crew ...
Place: switzerland
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Men with Guns (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.
Style: existential, cult classic, contemplative, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: rain forest, native, journey, sex crime, bad guy, on the road, road trip, politics, hopes, soldier, jungle, jaguar ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: central america
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Mondays in the Sun (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
Style: touching, sincere, realistic, political, serious ...
Plot: working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, human nature, breaking point ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
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King of the Hill (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a ...
Style: touching, realistic, heartbreaking, serious, depressing ...
Plot: coming of age, hotel, childhood, dysfunctional family, against the odds, loneliness, child's point of view, children, family problems, parents and children, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no ...
Style: anime, touching, depressing, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: world war two, hunger, war, orphan, homelessness, survival, siblings relations, children, desperation, death of child, anti war, boy ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1945, post world war two
Place: japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Style: serious, tense, emotional, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, painter, artist, art, couples, rise to the top, destructive relationship, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place: usa, new mexico, manhattan new york city, new york, wisconsin
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