ED Movies and Shows
by LhiannanShee | created - 24 Apr 2017 | updated - 24 Apr 2017 | PublicTV shows and movies about eating disorders.
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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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: 1,090
5. 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: 2,044
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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: 93,132
9. Huge (2010)
44 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Funny, heartbreaking, and provocative, "Huge" follows the lives of seven teens and the staff at a weight-loss camp as they look beneath the surface to discover their true selves and the truth about one another.
Stars: Nikki Blonsky, Zander Eckhouse, Raven Goodwin, Harvey Guillén
Votes: 1,195
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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: 1,443
14. Popular (1999–2001)
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two girls who despise each other because they're on opposite sides of the "popularity fence" are forced together when the father of one of them marries the other's mother.
Stars: Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Tamara Mello, Christopher Gorham
Votes: 6,852
15. 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: 98,080 | Gross: $4.60M
16. Anorexia (2010)
4 min | Short, Horror
Marisa suffers from anorexia. But there's something that befuddles the doctors.
Directors: J. Prada, K. Prada | Stars: Almudena Gallego, Aïtana Novau, Javier Botet, Carlos Pereira
Votes: 41
17.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Dying to Be Thin
(2000)
TV-PG | Documentary
Anorexia Nervosa and bulimia and our nation's obsession with the perfect body are analyzed by experts and those who have been inflicted with eating disorders.
Director: Larkin McPhee | Stars: Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Kate Dillon, Cynthia Gibb, Erika Goodman
Votes: 35
18.
Cutting Edge (1990–2017)
Episode:
Dana: The 8 Year Old Anorexic
(2008)
Documentary
Dana is an 8-year-old anorexic. This film looks at her time at a clinic to treat her disorder and how it affects people around her.
Director: Veronica Clifford | Star: Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 27
19. 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
20. An Anorexic's Tale: The Brief Life of Catherine (1988 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
The true story of Catherine Dunbar's seven-year battle with anorexia, starting when she was fifteen.
Director: Michael Whyte | Stars: James Faulkner, Phoebe Burridge, Susan Engel, Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Votes: 57
21. Briciole (2005 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Eighteen-year-old Sandra develops anorexia, and her family struggles to figure out how to support her.
Director: Ilaria Cirino | Stars: Claudia Zanella, Elisabetta Cavallotti, Francesca Figus, Angelica De Salve
Votes: 18
22. 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: 249
24. Fat (1979 TV Movie)
Director: Chris Cherry | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Patricia Brake, Norman Eshley, Jacqueline Tong
Votes: 7
25. The Famine Within (1990)
90 min | Documentary
Documents the contemporary obsession with an unrealistic body size and shape among North American women and the eating disorders it engenders.
Director: Katherine Gilday | Star: Rebecca Jenkins
Votes: 51
26. Compulsion (I) (2013)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Thriller
The lives of two female neighbors intersect when their individual obsessions begin to unravel.
Director: Egidio Coccimiglio | Stars: Heather Graham, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Dillon, Joe Mantegna
Votes: 3,195
27. Disfigured (2008)
96 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Gers | Stars: Deidra Edwards, Staci Lawrence, Ryan C. Benson, Elizabeth Sampson
Votes: 345 | Gross: $0.00M
28. 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
29. Shou shen (2005)
92 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Sergeant Tak (Anthony Wong) must track down a serial killer whose victims are starved, mutilated, and killed, and weighing exactly 70 pounds. The victims have an unexplainable link to a TV ... See full summary »
Directors: Marco Mak, Jing Wong | Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Sheren Tang, Cherrie Ying, Pui-Yan Chan
Votes: 167
30. To Be Fat Like Me (2007 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Drama
As part of a film project, a physically fit teenager dons a fat suit to gain experience of the hardships facing overweight high school students.
Director: Douglas Barr | Stars: Kaley Cuoco, Melissa Halstrom, Michael Phenicie, Rachel Cairns
Votes: 2,692
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