Movies Similar to Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection

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My Personal Funhouse Mirror(2023)

A look at past diary entries reveals a teenage girl's struggles with body image and depression

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My Body As Content(2024)

A guy talks about his struggle with his food disorder.

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Tasting Skinny(2022)

A short retrospective documentary on the struggles of eating disorder.

10.0

Diana: In Her Own Words(2017)

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

7.7

Amy(2015)

A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.

7.6

Down the Rabbit Hole(2019)

James Roddie is a caver, climber and a professional photographer. He’s also a 30-year-old man with an eating disorder. After the death of his father, James deals with it the best way he knows how – heading underground with his camera. Delving into his story, James candidly explores why caving, adventure, and mental health are so intricately tied together.

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Light(2021)

Documentary about eating disorders among professional climbers

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Civil War Sickness(2015)

A young woman examines her eating disorder recovery. She consciously resists the temptation to rely on visuals of starvation and specific body weights, instead seeking to articulate the deeper questions: why do eating disorders develop? Why do eating disorders persist? And how does healing happen?

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The Thinnest Line(2022)

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now thar she is entering into adulthood.

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I'LL NEVER HAVE TO VOMIT(2023)

Locked in her apartment, a teenager shares her relationship with food.

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Cultura de la Delgadez(2019)

Personal stories taken from a survey on how women's lives are affected by a culture obsessed with body image and thinness.

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Fat Girls and Feeders(2003)

A look at the sub-culture of "feeders" - men who are continue feed large women to encourage them to gain more weight to the point where the women become immobile and risk their lives. Featuring interviews with both the male feeders and the women they feed.

5.5

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Vigor

What lies behind a perfect body? Have you got this just playing sports? In this film we show an underworld of illegal substances, uncontrolled consumption of them and the obsession to have a muscular body. Because vigorexia affects more people than anorexia and bulimia, but is much less known.

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Ugly(2011)

'Ugly' is a film that follows Colton Clements, a young man who goes on a journey to discover the emotional and psychological effects the media and advertising has over women. Colton sets out to discover why the media pushes an image of the 'perfect' woman, and what effect this image has on the mindsets of women who are exposed to it. On his journey he meets and interviews a modeling consultant, an anorexia survivor, a therapist, and 'America's Next Top Model' Cycle Ten winner, the plus-sized model Whitney Thompson.

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The Starving Art(2012)

A documentary focusing on the prevalence of disordered eating and eating disorders among dancers.

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Petrichor(2022)

Marked by childhood trauma, three women from different generations living with an eating disorder try to get back to life.

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Meet the Feebles(1989)

Heidi, star of the "Meet The Feebles Variety Hour" discovers her lover Bletch the Walrus is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, drug dealing, and murder.

6.3

Requiem for a Dream(2000)

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

8.0

Bulimia: The Musical(2014)

BULIMIA: THE MUSICAL follows a young girl's journey from first vomit to last breath, in fifteen minutes of laugh-out-loud, puke-your-guts-out song and dance, all wrapped up with a positive message.

8.0

The Snake(2009)

Ken's an inveterate womanizer who joins an all female body image support group to put the moves on Talia, a young woman with an eating disorder.

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