Movies like Starving in Suburbia (2014)
The best movies like Starving in Suburbia (2014) are To the Bone (2017), My Skinny Sister (2015) and Sharing the Secret (2000). If Starving in Suburbia hooked you with its drama and tv movie, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGirl, Interrupted (1999)7.6/10 from 4,344 votes
- NewestContinue (2024)Released 2024
To the Bone (2017)
A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Skinny Sister (2015)
Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth and laughter - on and off the ice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSharing the Secret (2000)
A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Feed (2017)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFor the Love of Nancy (1994)
The parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn her world apart, her pregnancy could re-unite her shattered family and help her find her true purpose in life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Girl Like Her (2015)
Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and beautiful students. But when a shocking event changes both of their lives, a documentary film crew, a hidden digital camera, and the attention of a reeling community begin to reveal the powerful truth about A Girl Like Her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShare (2015)
A 15-year-old girl returns to school after an explicit video of her goes viral.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Choking Game (2014)
Taryn finds herself gaining much-desired popularity when the charismatic new girl at school claims her as a “breath sister," teaching Taryn about the Choking Game. Hiding it from her ever-present mother, best friend, and teachers, Taryn sees choking as a way to build self-control and grab an easy high. But, as the stakes are raised through each subsequent ‘flight’, Taryn has no idea that she is actually putting her life in extreme danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
I Believe in Unicorns (2015)
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisContinue (2024)
A girl suffering from depression is forced to get her life together when she is taken involuntarily to a mental institution after trying to follow in her fathers footsteps, but failing in her suicide attempt. She finds unlikely friends, unwavering love, and a life she never imagined possible for a girl like her. All to find out some decisions can't be undone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hunger Point (2003)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
1/1 (2018)
Lissa, a twenty-year-old girl trapped in rural Pennsylvania, grapples with sex, drugs, love and loss. When a possible pregnancy forces her to take a hard look at her life, both her and the structure of the film mature, illuminating a brighter path ahead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Pregnancy Project (2012)
The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThirteen (2003)
When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins to take a heavy toll on her and her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLikeness (2013)
For Mia, beauty is everything. A trophy, a promise, a ball and chain, a wish upon a star. A life sentence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Young, Stalked and Pregnant (2020)
Audrey is a senior in High School and has her whole life ahead of her when she realizes she can't remember the last time she got her period. She breaks the news to her boyfriend just hours after the death of his grandmother. Once his obviously unstable mother enters back into the picture things spiral out of control for everyone involved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Ask Me Anything (2014)
Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt takes a year off before college to find herself, all the while chronicling her adventures in an anonymous blog into which she pours her innermost secrets. Eventually, Katie's fearless narrative begins to crack, and dark pieces of her past emerge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like this1 Out of 7 (2012)
Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Little Miss Perfect (2016)
An overambitious high school freshman tries to control her life by controlling her weight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Girl Fight (2011)
Inspired by a true story, Girl Fight recounts the harrowing story of a 16-year-old, stellar high school student whose life spirals downward when her former friends conspire to upload onto the Internet a shocking video of them beating her up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLullaby (2014)
Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Jenkins) fights a zero sum game to reclaim all that his illness stole from his family. A debate rages on patients’ rights and what it truly means to be free. Jonathan reconciles with his father, reconnects with his mother (Archer), sister (Brown-Findlay), and his love (Adams) and reclaims his voice through two unlikely catalysts – a young, wise-beyond-her-years patient (Barden) and a no-nonsense nurse (Hudson). Through this intensely life affirming prism, an unexpected and powerful journey of love, laughter, and forgiveness unfolds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSugar (2013)
A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of Hollywood and Venice beach.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
I Am Potential (2015)
A father's journey to help his blind and wheel-chair bound son to overcome impossible odds and allow the world to see his God-given potential.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Cyberbully (2011)
A woman tries to help her teenage daughter when she becomes the victim of online bullying.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGirl, Interrupted (1999)
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStory of a Girl (2017)
When a compromising video of sixteen-year-old Deanna Lambert hits social media, her teenage life is changed forever. Overcoming bullies, hurtful school-yard taunts and the enduring rage and disappointment of her father, Deanna longs to escape a life defined by her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
This Is Us (2017)
A young woman breaks things off with her boyfriend but finds out the universe has other plans. Desperate to move on, she is forced to literally relive the memories they’ve shared together. Pin-balling through time and space, she attempts to rewrite their shared history in hopes that she can find the man with whom she first fell in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Light of the Moon (2017)
After a New York City woman is sexually assaulted while walking home one evening, she struggles to accept the truth and rediscover the intimacy within her relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill (2018)
Two suicidal teenagers, Conrad and Michelle, turn to each other for support, communicating via text messages. But when Conrad expresses his desire to end his life, instead of trying to stop him as she had previously, Michelle encourages Conrad to take his life, even providing him suggestions on how to do it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Starving in Suburbia?
The closest matches to Starving in Suburbia are To the Bone (2017), My Skinny Sister (2015) and Sharing the Secret (2000). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Starving in Suburbia?
People who watched Starving in Suburbia most often go on to To the Bone (2017), My Skinny Sister (2015) and Sharing the Secret (2000).
What is the highest-rated movie like Starving in Suburbia?
Girl, Interrupted (1999), rated 7.6/10 by 4,344 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Starving in Suburbia?
Continue (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Starving in Suburbia?
Yes: To the Bone (2017), Sharing the Secret (2000) and Feed (2017).
How are movies similar to Starving in Suburbia chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Starving in Suburbia, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.