Obesity movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant obesity movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating and feel good films and TV shows about / with obesity, overweight, physical appearance, love and romance, overweight woman, friendship, food, family relations, friends and obese plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as obesity: Lbs. (2004), Feed (2005), I Am Losing Weight (2018), Fat People (2009), Crazy Fat Ethel (2016), Big is Beautiful (2012), The Whale (2022), Fat Friends (2000), My Mad Fat Diary (2013), Fat Slags (2004).
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446
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A 315-pound man decides to kick his food addiction by moving to the country.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
weight loss, starting over, addiction, cooking and food, misfit, obsessive quest, hopes, negligence, leaving home, diet, obesity, fitness ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
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6K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, detective, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
pervert, murder, obesity, serial killer, psychopath, danger, investigation, internet, dangerous attraction, obsession, mind game, stockholm syndrome ...
Place:
ohio, sydney australia, australia, hamburg germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
There's two great loves in Anya's life, her athlete boyfriend Zhenya and food. Zhenya is not happy how Anya has been gaining weight due to her eating habits and decides to dump her. But Anya doesn't want to give up and decides to get ...
Style:
entertaining, romantic, humorous, funny, feel good
Plot:
obesity, love triangle, love and romance, women, overweight woman, love, relationships, stereotypes, love story, best friend, loneliness, betrayal ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
"GORDOS" is a comedy about life's excesses and deficiencies; about our insecurities, phobias, obsessions, traumas, mistakes, fears, blame, desires, hopes, challenges, concessions, goals, relationships, love, sex, health, family... ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
therapy, obesity, support group, therapist, physical appearance, family relations, social misfits, human nature, group of strangers, parents and children, couple relations, introspection ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Weighing in at about 300 pounds.. Ethel Janoski won't allow anyone to stand in the way of her glutinous appetite. Even if it means killing! After years in a mental institution, Ethel is taken in by her aunt. Many people including the head nurse ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, sexy, slasher ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial murder, hunger, murder, obesity, mental institution, criminal, obese woman, female villain, female criminal, psychopath as protagonist, female psychopath ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A resort for individuals who want to lose weight is helps several women discover friendships, acceptance with body image and hard truths.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
overweight woman, physical appearance, friendship, introspection, resort, obesity, therapy, best friend, friends, strong female presence, women, bare butt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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206K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Style:
serious, dramatic, thought provoking, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
religion, overweight man, obesity, gay, father daughter relationship, food, pizza, caregiver, teacher, father daughter reunion, ex husband ex wife relationship, domestic drama ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
idaho, new york state
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Fat Friends was an ITV drama, following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse ...
Style:
psychological, touching, humorous, sentimental, hilarious ...
Plot:
support group, obesity, family relations, self fulfillment, friendship, weight loss, hopes, society, physical appearance, overweight, bulimia, colleague ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
yorkshire, northern england, england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, fat girl, teenage life, youth, loneliness, depression, teenage love, adolescence, high school life, unhappy, first love, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place:
northern england, england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Leaving their hometown of Fulchester in the North of England, Sandra and Tracey head for the bright lights of London, shagging and boozing their way to fame and fortune.
Style:
parody, double entendre, erotic, slapstick comedy
Plot:
overweight woman, sexual humor, obesity, toilet humor, vulgar, delusion, accidental killing, exhibitionist, female protagonist, castration, romantic rivalry, profanity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
afghanistan, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
A Venezuelan soap opera about a loving overweight woman(mi gorda bella) who has to over come the obstacles life has placed to be with her true love
Style:
soap opera, romantic, captivating, light, novela ...
Plot:
fat girl, coping, love and romance, love story, relationships, romantic relationship, in love, love affair, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, love interest ...
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427
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jodie, a woman in her mid-thirties, struggles with the pressure to find a partner and have children. When she attends a Guns N’ Roses concert, she thinks she may have met a potential match — until he immediately ghosts on her.
Style:
rough, captivating, psychological, touching, sincere
Plot:
society, love and romance, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, fall in love, brutality, hopes, escapades, ambition, cultural icon, obesity ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
The affable, towheaded comic demonstrates his hysterical brand of self-effacing comedy and deadpan delivery at two sold-out shows at Chicago's Vic Theater. It's OK to laugh at this pale white guy...'cause nobody's laughing at Jim ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, witty, cynical, realistic
Plot:
obesity, stand up comedy, artists and showbiz, physical appearance, comedian, talk show, friends, cooking and food, pig, catholic, devil, easter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
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955
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An overweight, young woman, who finds it hard to land a husband, learns to accept her 'Size Sexy' figure and leads an awareness campaign against a dubious slimness centre.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, sincere, psychological, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
weight loss, obesity, female protagonist, overweight woman, obese, love interest, satire, unfulfilled love, social satire, lifestyle change, love and romance, love triangle
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146K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style:
fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place:
maine, new england, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, 'calorifically challenged' genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and ...
Style:
funny, parody, humorous, hilarious, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
overweight, split personality, african american, inventor, alter ego, experiment gone awry, campus, farce, love, black, goofy hero, teacher ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
madagascar, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on a Japanese manga, "Kanna-San, Daiseikou Desu," this story revolves around Kang Han-na (Kim Ah-jung), an overweight phone sex employee and secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot ...
Style:
romantic, touching, thought provoking, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
plastic surgery, physical appearance, music, love and romance, self discovery, hidden identity, talent, self fulfillment, changing lives, father daughter relationship, unrequited love, obesity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, east asia, asia
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Haru, an orphaned American who washes ashore in Japan and is mistaken for the great White Ninja of legend. Raised among the finest Ninjas, Haru grows strong and big - very big. With the grace of all Three Stooges rolled into one body, Haru is an ...
Style:
humorous, slapstick comedy, funny, parody, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, toddlers
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, fish out of water, amateur detective, dojo, crazy, misfit, clumsiness, adoptive father adopted son relationship, hotel, disguise, fistfight ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
japan, beverly hills, usa, california, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Plum Kettle, ghost-writer for the editor of one of New York’s hottest fashion magazines, struggles with self-image and sets out on a wildly complicated road to self-acceptance. At the same time, everyone is buzzing over news reports about men, ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, humorous, disturbing, poetic ...
Plot:
fat girl, satire, porn, violence, discrimination, sexism, obesity, overweight, social satire, ghost writer, social problems, feminist ...
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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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Genre: Comedy
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three fat guys get into diverse troubles as they decide to undergo weight-reducing surgery.
Style:
non-linear, light, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Plot:
bullying, obesity, friendship, changing lives, physical appearance, car crash, self referential humor, falsely accused, bachelor party, car chase, gym, love triangle ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pastry chef Macky has struggled with his weight for most of his life. It's not easy being fat, especially when you're secretly admiring a young socialite columnist named Ninia who gets the shock of her life when she sees Macky in his ...
Style:
captivating, romantic, tagalog
Plot:
restaurant, overweight, food, obese, obesity, love triangle, chef, male female relationship, training, diet, coach, relationships ...
Place:
the philippines, japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
sumo, israeli, self discovery, ambition, buddies, physical appearance, couple relations, athlete and trainer, job seeking, friendship, couples, support group ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An action comedy centered on Blubberella, an overweight half-vampire woman whose footsteps cause explosions and whose dual swords are used against anyone who makes fun of her. She must face an army of undead Nazi soldiers in her valiant struggle ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, exciting, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vampire, world war two, obesity, good versus evil, heroes, danger, escapades, female protagonist, stereotypes, superhero, zombie, nazi occultism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940
Place:
europe, germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Nour is a pleasant and funny person who works as an accountant at a fitness center in Paris. Everybody likes her, but she has no luck in her romantic endeavours because she is overweight with atypical looks. Her close friends try to give her advice, ...
Style:
semi serious, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
striptease, overweight, obesity, self doubt, love story, love and romance, lifestyle change, love affair, uncertainty, looking for love, female protagonist, changing lives ...
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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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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but ...
Style:
independent film, stylized, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, wedding ceremony, dysfunctional family, suicide, coming of age, caught having sex, obesity, homosexual, glbt, sexuality, family relations, hanging ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
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583
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Fat Girls is an original off-beat comedy feature. It focuses on Rodney Miller, not your typical Texas high school student...he is a theater lover and his ultimate dream is to be on Broadway. Awkward and shy, he doesn't have many people to talk ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, eccentric family, teenage life, social misfits, youth, obsession, oral sex, american football, high school student, masturbation ...
Place:
texas, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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13K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
bullying, torture, teenager, mockery, bullying victim, woman, body horror, teenage life, overweight woman, obese, obesity, sadistic horror ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
spain
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263
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fitness buff Hutch Daily is a foul-mouthed 27 year-old with the maturity of a pre-teen. After refusing to find employment or his own apartment, his mom gives him two choices: move to the homeless shelter or work at his uncle’s fat camp. Though he ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
training camp, obese, fat man, adult humor, satire, workplace situations, overweight man, camp, obesity, irony, lifestyle change, coworker ...
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