1. Binge ∞ Purge
After losing her job, Valerie relapses into bulimia. It takes the new found friendship of an oddball woman named Jacey to help her find the way back to recovery.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
2. Barely Recognizable
A movie musical about eating disorder recovery and overcoming perceptions of perfection. It follows the first couple of weeks of college for Gracie, a young woman who has recovered from an eating disorder. As she attempts to forge a new identity on campus, her new surroundings and the challenges associated with her transition to college life cause the recovery to teeter. With the help of Isa, a drop-dead gorgeous sophomore beauty queen, Gracie ultimately discovers that recovery is not linear, but rather, takes several twists and turns along the way.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
3. Mi Reflejo (Mi Reflejo)
A 17-year-old teenager maintains a troubled relationship with her mother due to the pressure she generates on her to lose weight, and expresses her feelings through painting.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
4. Bodywork
A theater actor with crippling body image insecurities must face his greatest fears when he is asked to perform nude on stage in his dream role.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
5. Low Stress Day
Madi is a junior doctor who desperately needs a break. Her partner, Dana, takes her on a getaway with her friend group. Will Madi finally get the Low Stress Day she desires?
6. The Girl in the Mirror
The Girl in the Mirror follows a girl named Amanda as she faces the struggles of Bulimia and her road to recovery.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
7. Daucus Carota (Daucus Carota)
A community of women lives in an old convent that falls apart. They never talk and strive to keep everything clean. One day, Irene realizes for the first time that there is much more beyond the routine she and her sisters keep doing over and over. Irene, following nature’s signs, starts a journey of reconnection with her own impulses and body to finally find her own voice.
8. Pinch
A student in her final year of high school battles a silent illness, which she hides from her mother, as she continues to be quietly overwhelmed by the pressures of family, peers and society.
9. Certe Brutte Compagnie
Those Bad Companions
10. Tear It Down (Tout péter)
In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.
11. Requiem for a Dream
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
It has an average vote of 8.021 on TMDB.
12. Likeness
For Mia, beauty is everything. A trophy, a promise, a ball and chain, a wish upon a star. A life sentence.
It has an average vote of 6.267 on TMDB.
13. Der arabische Mann (Der arabische Mann)
16-year-old Hamudi has an eating disorder. He is forced by his mother to go with a strange man named Ali to search for his missing son. Ali only speaks Arabic, and his visa is still valid for three days. The only thing he has of his son is a recent photograph. During their joint search, Hamudi begins to admire Ali and, for the first time, to question the image of men modeled for him by his macho father.
14. Hunger Point
A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic coincidences.
It has an average vote of 4.192 on TMDB.
15. Children of Men
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
It has an average vote of 7.611 on TMDB.
16. To the Bone
A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
It has an average vote of 7.219 on TMDB.
17. MADRESELVA (MADRESELVA)
(MADRESELVA)
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
18. Gala (Gala)
A portrayal of girlhood through the eyes of an average teenage girl.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
19. Tasting Skinny
A short retrospective documentary on the struggles of eating disorder.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
20. Virus Queen
An experimental essay film reflecting on love, temporality, memory, absence, and living with HIV.