Movies that deal with body images/eating disorders
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1. The Best Little Girl in the World (1981 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A young girl develops an eating disorder, alternately starving herself or throwing up food. Her parents, angry and desperate, send her to a hospital. Unfortunately, she befriends a patient who convinces her to hide her illness.
Director: Sam O'Steen | Stars: Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Melanie Mayron
Votes: 577
2. For the Love of Nancy (1994 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Drama
The parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
Director: Paul Schneider | Stars: Tracey Gold, Jill Clayburgh, Cameron Bancroft, Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Votes: 1,088
3. A Secret Between Friends: A Moment of Truth Movie (1996 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Two friends keep their vomiting a secret until one friend almost dies.
Director: James A. Contner | Stars: Lynda Carter, Katie Wright, Marley Shelton, Josh Taylor
Votes: 1,019
4. Sharing the Secret (2000 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Mare Winningham, Alison Lohman, Lawrence Monoson, Mary Crosby
Votes: 1,102
5. Dying to Dance (2001 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
A young woman succumbs to pressure at ballet school and develops anorexia nervosa.
Director: Mark Haber | Stars: Mary-Margaret Humes, Kimberly McCullough, Natalija Nogulich, Mimi Kuzyk
Votes: 375
6. Starving in Suburbia (2014)
TV-14 | 84 min | Biography, Drama
A 17-year-old dancer joins a "thinspiration" website and devotes herself to the almost religious glorification of "thin", until she becomes completely possessed by the dark world of anorexia.
Director: Tara Miele | Stars: Laura Wiggins, Izabella Miko, Callie Thorne, Marcus Giamatti
Votes: 1,405
7. Thin (2006)
TV-14 | 102 min | Documentary
The story of four women suffering from anorexia and bulimia in South Florida.
Director: Lauren Greenfield | Stars: Shelly Guillory, Brittany Robinson, Alisa Williams, Polly Williams
Votes: 2,043
8. Feed (2017)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama
Olivia and Matthew Grey are 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.
Director: Tommy Bertelsen | Stars: Troian Bellisario, Tom Felton, Ben Winchell, James Remar
Votes: 2,705
9. Little Miss Perfect (2016)
82 min | Drama
An overambitious high school freshman tries to control her life by controlling her weight.
Director: Marlee Rodrigues | Stars: Karlee Roberts, Lilla Crawford, Izzy Palmieri, Tom Degnan
Votes: 335
10. My Skinny Sister (2015)
95 min | Drama
Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal.
Director: Sanna Lenken | Stars: Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont, Annika Hallin, Henrik Norlén
Votes: 1,774
11. Hunger Point (2003 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama
A family is pushed to its limits when one of the daughters' lives is blighted by an eating disorder.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Barbara Hershey, Christina Hendricks, Susan May Pratt, John Getz
Votes: 660
12. Kate's Secret (1986 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Ben Masters, Georgann Johnson, Tracy Nelson
Votes: 360
13. To the Bone (I) (2017)
TV-MA | 107 min | Drama
A young woman, dealing with anorexia, meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Director: Marti Noxon | Stars: Rebekah Kennedy, Lily Collins, Dana L. Wilson, Ziah Colon
Votes: 54,850
14. The Karen Carpenter Story (1989 TV Movie)
120 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Story of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia.
Directors: Joseph Sargent, Richard Carpenter | Stars: Cynthia Gibb, Mitchell Anderson, Peter Michael Goetz, Michael McGuire
Votes: 1,441
15. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
Not Rated | 43 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Karen Carpenter's battle with anorexia nervosa and the cultural influence of the Carpenters in the 70s.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Merrill Gruver, Michael Edwards, Melissa Brown, Rob LaBelle
Votes: 3,331
16. Karen Carpenter: Goodbye to Love (2016 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, Drama, Music
The rise and tragic fall of iconic American singer Karen Carpenter. An overbearing mother, complex family dynamic, and personal insecurities led this gifted singer down a dark road called Anorexia Nervosa.
Director: John Holdsworth | Stars: Adele Keating, Chris Ellis-Stanton, Fidelis Morgan, Terry Jermyn
Votes: 83
17. Perfect Body (1997 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Family, Sport
A teenage gymnast is accepted to an elite training center in Seattle to train for the Olympics. After being criticized for her weight, she begins vomiting up her food and excessively starving herself.
Director: Douglas Barr | Stars: Amy Jo Johnson, Brett Cullen, Wendie Malick, Ray Baker
Votes: 1,321
18. Little Girls in Pretty Boxes (1997 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Sport
A gymnast moves to a gym where the top coach in the US is and has difficulties adjusting.
Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: Swoosie Kurtz, Courtney Peldon, John Ashton, Philip Casnoff
Votes: 275
19. Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story (1996 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Drama
A runner's bulimia and anorexia threaten both her dream of competing in the Olympics and her marriage to Denver's mayor.
Director: Jan Egleson | Stars: Crystal Bernard, Esai Morales, Casey Sander, Tom Atkins
Votes: 248
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