Movies about suicide,self harm, anorexia ect ect
by scarsandskittles | created - 22 Aug 2013 | updated - 10 Aug 2017 | PublicMovie and/or TV series involving Suicide, self harm, anorexia, bulimia , mental disorders, drugs and bullying
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1. According to Greta (2009)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A suicidal and rebellious teenager is sent to live with her grandparents for the summer, where life takes an unexpected turn.
Director: Nancy Bardawil | Stars: Hilary Duff, Evan Ross, Michael Murphy, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 10,430
2. Thirteen (2003)
R | 100 min | Drama
A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Nikki Reed, Vanessa Hudgens
Votes: 98,481 | Gross: $4.60M
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama
Charlie, a 15-year-old introvert, enters high school and is nervous about his new life. When he befriends his seniors, he learns to cope with his friend's suicide and his tumultuous past.
Director: Stephen Chbosky | Stars: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd
Votes: 550,888 | Gross: $17.74M
4. Cyber Bully (2011 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama
A teenager is subjected to a campaign of bullying by classmates through a social networking site.
Director: Charles Binamé | Stars: Emily Osment, Kay Panabaker, Meaghan Rath, Kelly Rowan
Votes: 13,301
5. The Art of Getting By (2011)
PG-13 | 83 min | Drama, Romance
George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who has made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
Director: Gavin Wiesen | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Sasha Spielberg
Votes: 61,085 | Gross: $1.43M
6. Girl, Interrupted (1999)
R | 127 min | Biography, Drama
A directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy
Votes: 212,316 | Gross: $28.87M
7. It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A clinically-depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck | Stars: Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Dana DeVestern
Votes: 149,022 | Gross: $6.35M
8. The Unsaid (2001)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A seemingly-untroubled adolescent carries disturbing secrets that compel a psychiatrist to unearth the patient's gruesome past.
Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Andy Garcia, Vincent Kartheiser, Trevor Blumas, Chelsea Field
Votes: 6,729
9. 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: 1,323
10. 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: 1,098
11. 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: 2,046
12. Party Monster (2003)
R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true story of Michael Alig, a Club Kid party organizer whose life was sent spiraling down when he bragged on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate.
Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Wilson Cruz, Seth Green, Diana Scarwid
Votes: 17,281 | Gross: $0.73M
13. Secret Cutting (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
Dawn Cottrell (Peterson) seems like a typical sixteen-year-old girl, but she has a very dangerous secret. Unable to express her true feelings, whenever Dawn is upset she grabs a knife and cuts herself.
Director: Norma Bailey | Stars: Sean Young, Kimberlee Peterson, Robert Wisden, Taylor Stanley
Votes: 1,090
14. Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.
Director: Goran Dukic | Stars: Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits, Will Arnett
Votes: 58,075 | Gross: $0.32M
15. 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: 1,086
16. 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: 1,024
17. 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: 359
18. 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: 374
19. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Heather Matarazzo, Christina Brucato, Victoria Davis, Christina Vidal
Votes: 37,345 | Gross: $4.77M
20. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
R | 102 min | Drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Votes: 903,335 | Gross: $3.64M
21. My Suicide (2009)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
A teen coming-of-age romantic dramedy about a media-obsessed geek and the most beautiful and twisted girl in school.
Director: David Lee Miller | Stars: Gabriel Sunday, David Carradine, Mariel Hemingway, Joe Mantegna
Votes: 2,431
suicide
22. 2:37 (2006)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
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.
Director: Murali K. Thalluri | Stars: Teresa Palmer, Frank Sweet, Sam Harris, Charles Baird
Votes: 7,404
23. Chatroom (2010)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Five teenagers with different personalities are introduced to one another in a chatroom called "Chelsea Teens!" But one shows its darker side, threatening the others' lives.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Jacob Anderson, Matthew Ashforde, Dorothy Atkinson, Matthew Beard
Votes: 9,641
online chatting
24. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner
Votes: 170,112 | Gross: $4.86M
suicide
25. Speak (2004)
PG-13 | 89 min | Drama
After a blurred trauma over the summer, Melinda enters high school a selective mute. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.
Director: Jessica Sharzer | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, Richard Hagerman, Allison Siko
Votes: 29,589
rape
26. Manic (2001)
R | 100 min | Drama
After attacking another player with a bat during baseball at school, Lyle's sent to the psych ward. He meets other teenagers with problems. Will group therapy help?
Director: Jordan Melamed | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Bacall, Zooey Deschanel, Don Cheadle
Votes: 10,100 | Gross: $0.07M
Mental hospital, beating, bullying
27. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.
Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver
Votes: 746,954 | Gross: $132.09M
Mental Hospital
28. Daydream Nation (2010)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A city girl who moves to a small town and becomes entangled in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a stoner classmate.
Director: Michael Goldbach | Stars: Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Andie MacDowell, Josh Lucas
Votes: 13,128
Drugs
29. Suicide Room (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
After suffering extreme humiliation at school, Dominik holes himself up in his room and begins spending all his time in a virtual reality chat room.
Director: Jan Komasa | Stars: Jakub Gierszal, Roma Gasiorowska, Agata Kulesza, Christoph Pieczynski
Votes: 11,609
Suicide
30. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
R | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell
Votes: 168,642 | Gross: $1.74M
Mental Hospital
31. Trust (I) (2010)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator.
Director: David Schwimmer | Stars: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato, Jason Clarke
Votes: 44,213 | Gross: $0.12M
online chatting
32. Love at First Hiccup (2009)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A high school romantic comedy about freshman Victor who has contracted a case of Anya-itis, (acute and incurable love passion for high school senior Anja.) And why shouldn't he?
Director: Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg | Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Devon Werkheiser, Tania Verafield, Ken Luckey
Votes: 3,239
bullying
33. Running with Scissors (2006)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
A teenage boy comes of age in the 1970's, sent by his neurotic, pretentious mother to live with a jolly, vulgar psychiatrist and his eccentric extended family.
Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow
Votes: 23,282 | Gross: $6.75M
alcohol, erratic beahaviour
34. Mysterious Skin (2004)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
Two pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.
Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Chase Ellison
Votes: 76,708 | Gross: $0.70M
Sexual abuse
35. Hard Candy (2005)
R | 104 min | Drama, Thriller
Hayley's a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff's a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff's place. Jeff thinks it's his lucky night. He's in for a surprise.
Director: David Slade | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Elliot Page, Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae
Votes: 168,970 | Gross: $1.01M
Sexual predator, online chat
36. Igby Goes Down (2002)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Director: Burr Steers | Stars: Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes
Votes: 35,402 | Gross: $4.68M
37. Charlie Bartlett (2007)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A rich kid becomes the self-appointed psychiatrist to the student body of his new high school.
Director: Jon Poll | Stars: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Kat Dennings
Votes: 67,027 | Gross: $3.95M
38. King of California (2007)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
An unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia.
Director: M. Cahill | Stars: Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Willis Burks II, Laura Kachergus
Votes: 23,769 | Gross: $0.26M
39. Thumbsucker (2005)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
Director: Mike Mills | Stars: Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves
Votes: 22,097 | Gross: $1.33M
40. Skins (2007–2013)
TV-MA | 46 min | Drama
The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who would rather be friends (and lovers) than authority figures.
Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Dempsie, Hannah Murray
Votes: 93,533
41. 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: 55,142
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