Top 9 Films About Eating Disorders

[mandarin-girl]

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Thin
Killing Us Softly
Dying to Be Thin
Perfect Illusions
When Friendship Kills
For The Love Of Nancy
Hunger Point
Sharing the Secret
Kate's Secret

[vphoenix]

Ooh, wonderful list! I've only seen about half of these...time to play catch-up I think ;)

[Edie101mod]

Does anyone know where you can find perfect illusions? I started watching it last year some time but the only one I can find is in Spanish or something?? On YouTube.

[Lipservice]

Loved Sharing the secret, It felt very real to me.

[Boney M]

I mentioned this one in an older thread...'Hunger' (2008). Very powerful and not easy viewing. “They've turned their violence on themselves.”

[awkwardlyauthentic]

I just watched Dying to be Thin for a class... and I laughed and was frustrated throughout the entire thing tbh... It's been a while since I've seen a couple of the other ones, but most of those I have not seen yet :).

[Koi]

i loved thin. very triggering. can't help but to hurt for them and root for them to get better.

[No way out.]

Okay, there's about 4 I need to watch! These films are really good. . Helpful too.

[ShowStopper]

Thank you so much for this, I've been looking for good films for forever.

[Xgx]

Does anyone know where you can find perfect illusions? I started watching it last year some time but the only one I can find is in Spanish or something?? On YouTube.

Oh Yes yes yes !!! I wanted to ask the same... All free links that found was spanish... :( Too bad... I wanted to see & hear & UNDERSTAND Marya Hornbacher :(
P.s. LOVED "Thin" & "For the love of Nancy" :o

[No way out.]

Oh Yes yes yes !!! I wanted to ask the same... All free links that found was spanish... :( Too bad... I wanted to see & hear & UNDERSTAND Marya Hornbacher :(
P.s. LOVED "Thin" & "For the love of Nancy" :o

Wait? Was 'Perfect Illusions' based on 'Wasted' by Marya Hornbacher?

[Xgx]

Wait? Was 'Perfect Illusions' based on 'Wasted' by Marya Hornbacher?

Oh no, It's a kind of a documentary & M.Hornbacher (as well as her both parents !!) are being interviewed ;)

[UpsideDown]

That's a great list, I can't wait to check out the others I have not seen.

Does anyone have a list of good books on the subject? I have read wasted. I am more of a reader than a movie watcher :P

[Meg]

Another really good (but old) one is "Best Little Girl in the World"

[A1000]

Currently watching Kates Secret on Youtube. Thanks for the list, got some films to get!

Are we allowed to post links of the movies here? I'm presuming not?

[need.to.be.thin]

I thought ive watched every ED film/documentary lol but ive never even heard of killing us softly, i might remember it when i watch it but thats what im gonna watch tonight:D ..
I like most of the ED films even though they are a bit over dramatic and unrealistic lol, i wish there was a british one. Sharing the secret is a good one, it alwasy makes me cry when she tells her mum xx

[ToxicWaste]

Thin
Killing Us Softly
Dying to Be Thin
Perfect Illusions
When Friendship Kills
For The Love Of Nancy
Hunger Point
Sharing the Secret
Kate's Secret

That is a good list! I really liked "When Friendship Kills," "For the Love of Nancy," and "Sharing the Secret." I will have to try to look up and find the other movies on the list I haven't watch.

Too bad Perfect Body didn't make the list. I really liked that movie! :P :D

[Arcadia]

Do u watch them all on youtube?

[BonnieBelle91]

I mentioned this one in an older thread...'Hunger' (2008). Very powerful and not easy viewing. “They've turned their violence on themselves.”

Well, Hunger is about Bobby Sands and his fellow inmates starting a hunger strike for civil rights.. does this really count? :P

[Boney M]

Well, Hunger is about Bobby Sands and his fellow inmates starting a hunger strike for civil rights.. does this really count? :P

Yeah i know, it's not about an eating disorder. But i liked the film. And you certainly get to see the effects of not eating.