Movies: Anorexia

A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life....

An aspiring model with body dysmorphia must confront her insecurities as they begin to manifest as the twisted form of her own reflection....

A young Romanian woman and a recovering drug addict launch an unlikely investigation after her parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known as The Headhunter....

A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga, who is still grieving her recently deceased mother, might try to harm herself, sends her to see a psychiatrist who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way....

A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father....

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....

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls....

At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students....

A strange and destructive relationship develops between a chef and her neighbor, a former child actress....

Teenager Lexi Archer moves to Chicago with her newly divorced mother and befriends a popular girl at her new school, Jennifer. After Lexi's volleyball coach suggests that she lose weight, Jennifer reveals she is bulimic and the two girls decide to he...

Five friends travel to a secluded island for a purifying week-long water fast. With no food and electricity, a long forgotten hate surfaces....

At only fourteen years old, Paula hates her body. In an attempt to express what she feels, Paula creates a blog and becomes part of a large virtual community that shares her problems. Shelter in anonymity, she uploads content recorded with her cell p...

Desperate for help, a woman in recovery asks an unlikely stranger on a dinner date....

It's just another [excruciating] meal for Vienna - until an offer to conquer her greatest fear in 'three simple steps' arrives. Desperate for freedom from her fear of eating, Vienna takes the offer up - only to realize she bit off far more than she c...

Maledimiele tells the story of Sara, a teenage girl who sinks – slowly but inevitably – into the abyss of anorexia....

Jamie is a young man who suffers from both anorexia and bulimia. His memories of being teased for being over-weight coupled with people's treatment of his sudden weight loss lead him to question his decisions for the first time. We are allowed into h...

An independent feature-length documentary about women, food, fat, and dieting....

'Tom' from Birmingham, 22, - who did not wish to reveal his real name - had a traumatic childhood as his mother suffered from untreated mental illnesses including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anorexia, and depression....

Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressu...

In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia), I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I express my desire to regain my freedom and vitality by sharing not only my progress but also my relapses. Through the interweaving of drawings and p...