Movies about anorexia

While some are struggling with the problem of obesity, others are trying to defeat its opposite - anorexia. This is a nutritional disorder, which is associated with an obsessive desire to lose weight because of discontent with their appearance. As a rule, it leads to an almost complete refusal of food, exhaustion, and as a result - a lethal outcome. Mortality from anorexia grows yearly and this disease is not rarely called the plague of the 21st century.

The list of films about anorexia, which we offer, will help not only to spend interesting time, but also to get better acquainted with the problem, the ways of its solution and possible outcomes.

Movies about anorexia and weight loss

1. "Dance is more precious than life" (2001, USA, drama) . It's no secret that in the name of art, ballerinas sit on the strictest diets and carefully follow the slightest fluctuations in weight, not to mention regular exhausting workouts. The main heroine of the film is ready not to stop at anything, just to achieve its ideal.
2. "Out of love for Nancy" (1994, USA, drama) . Nancy is a beautiful 18-year-old girl who breaks free from a strictly parental home and decides to radically change her life. One of the main points is her "extra" weight, with which she began to actively fight, giving up food. Her mother desperately tried to reason with her, but nothing came of it. Then it's time to involve the state.
3. "The best girl in the world" (1978, USA, drama) . This film shows the story of a girl who suffers from a mental disorder. The drama that is played out in the life of the girl, truly deserves attention. In addition, viewing such a picture can be called compulsory for teenagers who tend to follow the fashion blindly.
4. "When friendship kills" (1996, USA, drama) . Have you ever tried to lose weight on a dispute or race? Two heroines of the film, the best girlfriends, decide on such an experiment, and are trying to at any cost to reduce weight. Fortunately, the mother of one of the girls interferes in the matter, and together with her daughter they try to help her friend together. This film - and about anorexia, and about bulimia .
5. "Sharing a secret" (2000, USA, drama) . The mother of a thin girl learns that her daughter is ill with bulimia, which is often adjacent to an anorexia disease. To defeat the disease, the heroines first have to solve dozens of problems from various spheres of life that are piling on them at such a difficult time.
6. "The History of Karen Carpenter" (1989, USA, drama) . This film tells about the life of Karen Carpenter - a famous American singer and drummer. This charming girl, like many others, became a victim of diets, which led her to sad results.
7. "The Hunger" (2003, USA, drama) . This film shows the story of the struggle for their lives of two girls who are exhausted by diets and exhausted to the limit. They never aspired to excessive leanness - but she really liked their strange mother.
8. "The ideal figure" (1997, USA, sport, drama) . This film shows the story of a young athlete, who decided that without a perfectly built body, she would never win. It is because of this that she wears herself out with physical loads and a complete refusal of a normal diet.
9. Anorexia (2006, USA, documentary) . This film is clear and truthful, without unnecessary information, tells about the essence of such a terrible disease. Documentary films about anorexia periodically appear on American television, and this one is one of the best and most thorough.