Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

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

1987-07-15 | en

Don't Worry, I'm Fine

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

2006-09-06 | fr

Requiem for a Dream

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

2000-10-06 | en

Mary and Max

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

2009-04-09 | en

Pullahiiri

A teenager (Sari Puumalainen) starts to suffer from bulimia nervosa after her boyfriend tells her to loose a bit weight. The illness makes her neglect the school and her friends until she realises that she is not alone with her problems.

1988-12-18 | en

Briciole

2005-06-10 | it

Feed

Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.

2017-04-05 | en

Best Years

Five friends in their 20ies try to make it as artists while struggling with psychological disorders and disregulated lives. Abandoned to themselves, they try to escape the pain with drugs and parties, but, soon, that reveals not to be enough. Past violence comes back to the surface, old secrets and addictions get revealed...

2024-12-11 | en

Life Is Sweet

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.

1990-11-15 | en

Ara

A fiction feature shot with real patients and their therapists that shows the day-to-day life of a group of anorexia nervosa patients during their hospitalization and the relationship with their therapists.

2018-10-26 | ca

The Fattest Man in Britain

Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only other regular outside contact until he meets Amy, a pregnant teenager fleeing a violent boyfriend ,whom he takes in as a lodger. Amy tries to help Georgie change his lifestyle, but Morris is more than keen to stop her ruining his tourist attraction.

2009-12-20 | en

Healer

A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in an imagined reality where they grew up together.

2023-07-23 | en

Catherine

The true story of Catherine Dunbar's struggle with anorexia, that began when she was 15.

1988-07-01 | en

Sharing the Secret

A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.

2000-05-10 | en

River's Edge

High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.

2018-02-16 | ja

guts

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

2024-01-20 | en

Bitter Taste

In the wake of Glasgow’s rapid deindustrialization and economic decline in the 90s, a young Fraser falls victim to knife crime and is indelibly marked with a “Glasgow smile”, irrevocably impacting his sense of self and relationship to food.

2024-05-16 | en

Yours Are Mine

When a high school tutor discovers a painful secret about her favorite client, she is quickly triggered by a similar darkness from her own past.

2020-09-27 | en

Body

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.

2015-01-20 | pl

The Best Little Girl in the World

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 pressures.

1981-05-11 | en