Recently, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of people who are obese or overweight. Overeating has different reasons, but everyone wants to get rid of this bad habit as soon as possible.
However, such a desire is quite difficult to realize in practice. After all, you need to change not only your diet, but completely restructure your entire life. Do you need motivation? Watch movies about weight loss, and the dream of a beautiful and slim figure will definitely come true!
My Mad Fat Diary (serial)
- IMDB Rating – 8.5
- Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Comedy
- Production: UK / 2013
- Director: Alex Winkler, Benjamin Caron, Tim Kirkby
- Starring: Kiera Baxendale, Dan Cohen, Jodie Comer, Darren Evans, Ian Hart, Nico Mirallegro, Jordan Murphy, Sharon Rooney, Claire Rushbrook, Bamshad Abedi-Amin.
Rae Earle is only 16 years old, but she has a lot of problems – 104 kilograms of weight and mental problems. The events of this English series unfold in a small town of Stamford. Rae is discharged from the clinic and Chloe, her close friend, to please the girl, introduces her to her party. Sullen Finn, an ardent fan of the rock band “Oasis” – Chop, friendly Izzy with fiery hair and Archie are known to many in the county of Lincolnshire.
The success of the first season among the young audience allowed the producers to announce the beginning of work on the continuation of the series.
To the Bone
- IMDB Rating – 6.8
- Genre: Drama
- Production: USA / 2017
- Director: Marti Noxon
- Starring: Lily Collins, Keanu Reeves, Carrie Preston, Lili Taylor, Alex Sharp, Liana Liberato, Brooke Smith, Leslie Bibb, Kathryn Prescott, Ciera Bravo
Ellen, a young talented artist, has a serious illness. But like all people suffering from anorexia, she does not understand what is happening and what the lack of treatment can lead to. Visits to doctors do not give any result.
But here comes hope – a doctor who has created a rehabilitation group for people with eating disorders. He has his own methods, which are based on working on himself. The role of the doctor is wonderfully played by Keanu Reeves.
Actress Lily Collins stated that she also had the disorder as a teenager, but she got through it. And in order to play in this movie about weight loss, she needed counseling from a nutritionist.
Here Comes the Boom
- IMDB Rating – 6.4
- Genre: Comedy, Sports
- Production: USA / 2012
- Budget: $42,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $73,100,172
- Director: Frank Coraci
- Starring: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Greg Germann, Bas Rutten, Gary Valentine, Jake Zurus, Reggie Lee, Mark DellaGrott, Joe Rogan
In this comedy, a seemingly unsportsmanlike schoolteacher decides to enter the ring. He really needs money – 49 thousand dollars, otherwise because of budget cuts his friend Marty will lose his job.
Once upon a time, back in the university, Scott Voss practiced freestyle wrestling, and now he’s ready to compete as a punching bag – because the losing UFC fighter is paid 10 thousand dollars. But when the last fight is left to lose, he finds out that all his money, given to the school’s accounting department, has disappeared.
The role of Nico’s coach and Voss’ opponent in the final was played by professionals Bas Rutten and Krzysztof Soszynski.
Minyeoneun goerowo
- IMDB Rating – 6.7
- Genre: Melodrama, Comedy, Music
- Production: South Korea / 2006
- Worldwide Box Office: $42,013,016
- Director: Kim Young-hwa
- Starring: Kim Ah-joon, Chu Jin-mo, Song Dong-il, Kim Hyun-suk, Lim Hyun-shik, Lee Han-vi, Ji So-young, Park No-shik, Myung-gu
Kang Han-Na is very talented but has to perform songs for a pretty singer with no voice. She likes producer Sang-Joon and tries to do her job to the best of her ability. One day, she hears what others think of her and decides to completely change – to get rid of her excess weight and to look good.
In a comedy movie about weight loss, there are a lot of interesting and funny moments. It took the girl a whole year to get closer to her ideal and start climbing the musical Olympus.
This is the first significant work of the famous South Korean actress Kim Ah Joon.
Mike & Molly (serial)
- IMDB Rating – 6.5
- Genre: Comedy
- Production: USA / 2010
- Director: James Burrows, Phil Lewis, Michael McDonald
- Starring: Billy Gardell, Melissa McCarthy, Reno Wilson, Katie Mixon, Swoosie Kurtz, Nyambi Nyambi, Luis Mustillo, Rondi Reed, Cleo King
Chicago cop Mike Biggs needs to lose excess weight. And his skinny partner Carl fully supports his aspirations, despite teasing. Mike starts attending Gluttons Anonymous classes and meets Molly Flinn. She teaches elementary school and lives with her mother and sister, who love to eat.
But the best part is that they are both slim. So Molly has to constantly fight with different kinds of temptations not to get even more fat. The main characters have the same problems and they decide to look into each other’s eyes.
I’m losing weight
- IMDB Rating – 6.5
- Genre: Comedy
- Production: Russia / 2018
- Budget: ₽ 87,649,127
- Worldwide Box Office: $11,482,662
- Director: Alexey Nuzhny
- Starring: Alexandra Bortich, Irina Gorbacheva, Sergei Shnurov, Evgeny Kulik, Roman Kortsyn, Alexander Ptashenchuk, Elena Valyushkina, Valeria Dergileva, Andrei Trushin, Oleg Kassin
Pastry chef Anya is in a bad way. Because of her weight gain, she was abandoned by her lover. Zhenya, a swimming coach, handsome and charismatic, very quickly found a replacement for her. Anya meets Nikolai, a bank employee, he really needs to lose weight in order to take part in sports competitions with the rest of the staff.
The further life of the girl begins to change rapidly. Will she be able to cope with her desires and restore her former physical shape, to understand those people who are with her next to her?
Huge (serial)
- IMDB Rating – 7.3
- Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
- Production: USA / 2010
- Director: Elodie Keane, Michael Grossman, Ron Lagomarsino
- Starring: Nikki Blonsky, Zander Eckhaus, Raven Goodwin, Harvey Guillen, Haley Hasselhoff, Ashley Poupelka, Eri Stidham, Gina Torres, Paul Dooley, Zoe Jarmen
Eight teenagers were sent by their parents to the specialized camp “Victory”. The goal of its staff is very important – to reduce their weight. But not all the newcomers are happy about this opportunity. For example, Will is outraged by such an act of her closest people, the owners of the health club. She believes that in the camp they teach you to hate your full body, and it should just be accepted. Because of her frivolous mother, Amber had to pay for the camp out of her savings.
In this teen weight loss movie, many of the characters are trying to get their own lives together on their own. They have a bunch of problems, which seriously complicates their relationships. Will they be able to change?
Food, Inc.
- IMDB Rating – 7.8
- Genre: Documentary, News
- Production: USA / 2008
- Worldwide Box Office: $4,606,199
- Director: Robert Kenner
- Starring: Eric Schlosser, Richard Lobb, Vince Edwards, Carol Morison, Michael Pollan, Troy Pusch, Larry Johnson, Allen Trenkle, Barbara Kowalczyk, Patricia Buck.
An American documentary film that provoked a strong public reaction, including a strongly negative one among food corporations. Director Kenner had to defend his opinion with the help of lawyers, as many companies filed lawsuits against him.
The first part is a study of meat production, describing the peculiarities of this inhumane process. In the second – the industrial cultivation of cereals is considered. And in conclusion – about food production, about the addiction to unhealthy and dangerous food.
Critics gave the movie a favorable review.
Shallow Hal
- IMDB Rating – 6.0
- Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Melodrama, Comedy
- Production: USA, Germany / 2001
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $141,069,860
- Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
- Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli, Renee Kirby, Bruce McGill, Anthony Robbins, Susan Ward, Zen Gesner, Brooke Burns.
Hal Larson is very difficult to maintain relationships with girls. He is very picky about their beauty, not only externally, but also internally. However, a chance meeting with a famous psychologist changes him dramatically.
Hal now sees the inner world of women and notices Rosemary, a beauty with a graceful figure. She is kind and attentive. Rosemary’s father heads the company, in which Hal works, and the guy suddenly begins to move up the career ladder. Friends and others are surprised by the choice of the guy, because the girl is too fat, her weight can withstand not every chair.
In this movie-comedy about weight loss there are episodes that make you think about the difficult situation of overweight people, the need for a tactful attitude of others to their problems.
Gordos
- IMDB Rating – 6.6
- Genre: Drama, comedy
- Production: Spain / 2009
- Director: Daniel Sanchez Arevalo
- Starring: Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Enriquez, Veronica Sanchez, Raul Arevalo, Leticia Herrero, Fernando Albisu, Pilar Castro, Maria Morales, Adam Jezerski, Marta Martin.
Four heroes remain in the selection group after completing one shocking task. They were all asked to strip, which is quite difficult for those whose bodies are far from perfect. The remaining four revealed their souls as well. And these people had good reasons that made them “nibble” on their troubles.
Pretty Sophia is going to get married, but does not want to go to bed with her chosen one before the wedding. For this reason, she was also abandoned by her previous lover. And Eric thinks he is gay, but is he really? Life will give him a chance and let him sort himself out. Leonor suffers from separation from her lover and eats more and more, but is there a spiritual connection between them? All of Andreas’s relatives died at the age of 50, and he is already 49. And the psychotherapist himself cannot cope with his inner contradictions, will he be able to help others?
I Feel Pretty
- IMDB Rating – 5.6
- Genre: Melodrama, Comedy
- Production: USA, China / 2018
- Budget: $32,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $94,539,426
- Director: Abby Cohn, Mark Silverstein
- Starring: Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams, Tom Hopper, Rory Scovel, Adrian Martinez, Emily Ratakowski, Aidy Bryant, Beezy Phillips, Lauren Hutton, Sasheer Zamata
Renee Bennett is a little over thirty, but she is not happy with her life yet – there is no career growth, and her personal life is full of gaps. The girl realizes that she is overweight, so she does not fall into today’s fashion trends. The girl works not in the central office, but in a poor neighborhood, is engaged in online sales. Renee wants happiness so much that she throws a coin into the fountain of wishes, but nothing happens.
But the next day, at the gym, the girl hits her head and immediately realizes that she is incredibly beautiful. And indeed, with sparkling eyes and proudly raised head, in a short skirt Renee looks stunning. But in fact…
The movie was released ahead of schedule due to numerous positive reviews.
Fitness (serial)
- IMDB Rating – 6.2
- Genre: Comedy
- Production: Russia / 2018
- Director: Anton Maslov, Kirill Vasiliev
- Starring: Sofya Zayka, Mikhail Trukhin, Tatiana Khramova, Roman Kortsyn, Alexei Demidov, Boris Dergachev, Marianna Shultz, Pavel Stont, Olga Baranova, Tatiana Somova
Asya has no aspirations for sports achievements, and she does not do gymnastics. She simply does not notice her extra kilograms and lives without complexes, she is going to get married.
But one day the girl learns that the groom is not delighted with her lush forms, and girlfriends do not mind to giggle at her overly obese figure. She realizes that it’s time to take care of herself and enrolls in a sports club. Asya has no money to pay for a trainer. But she finds a way out and her life begins to change.
The cast of the show has been working out seriously and restricting their diets.
Hunger Point
- IMDB Rating – 5.5
- Genre: Drama
- Production: USA / 2003
- Director: Joan Micklin Silver
- Starring: Barbara Hershey, Christina Hendricks, Susan May Pratt, John Goetz, Jody Pape, Stephanie Mills, Alec McClure, Jack Mather, Gordon Joslin, Jim Fowler.
The most important thing for Marsha Hunter is a beautiful figure. She takes very good care of herself and teaches her children to do the same. She makes her daughters, Franny and Shelly, do physical exercises, not to eat everything, but to sit on a strict diet.
The presence of “extra” grams she cruelly ridiculed. Marsha’s husband does not interfere in anything, so the manic passion of the mother has a very negative effect on the girls. She sets them life goals – career and perfect figure. But what tragic end can her demands and ridicule lead to?
Dumplin’
- IMDB Rating – 6.6
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Production: USA / 2018
- Worldwide Box Office: $399,198
- Director: Anne Fletcher
- Starring: Danielle Macdonald, Odeya Rush, Jennifer Aniston, Maddie Baillio, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Luke Benward, Georgie Flores, Dove Cameron, Harold Perrineau, Katie Nagimi
Willowdean Dixon is a sweet but full-figured teenage girl, called “Puffy” by her acquaintances. The girl was always raised by Lucy, her maternal aunt, but she died. Willowdean’s mother is considered very beautiful by the townspeople, she was even once awarded for a confident victory in a beauty contest with the title of queen.
However, the daughter is not satisfied, she does not like her mother’s attitude, the image and lifestyle she has created. A young girl with a non-standard figure is going to go on stage in the upcoming contest, and thus express her mother’s protest. But unexpectedly, others follow her.
Mi gorda bella (serial)
- IMDB Rating – 6.2
- Genre: Drama, melodrama
- Production: Venezuela / 2002
- Director: Jose Alcalde, Luis Padilla
- Starring: Natalia Streignard, Juan Pablo Raba, Ilda Abrahams, Emma Rabbe, Flavio Caballero, Carlos Felipe Alvarez, Dennis Velasco, Norkis Batista, Jeronimo Gil, Prakriti Maduro.
The people around her consider Valentina a kind and sensitive person. The head of the family, Olimpia, explained it with the best of intentions, sent the girl to a Catholic boarding school, where she spent many years until she received her diploma.
Her mother Eva, after the loss of her husband, became addicted to alcohol, but eventually managed to pull herself together and continued her career as a singer. She is going to take her daughter to her, but the helicopter on which she arrives explodes. What can people with greed do? And who is Olympia really?
The popularity of the Venezuelan series reached such heights that dolls depicting the main character were produced in the country.
Dietland (serial)
- IMDB Rating – 6.5
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Production: USA / 2018
- Director: Marti Noxon, Helen Shaver, Michael Trim
- Starring: Joy Nash, Tamara Tuney, Robin Weigert, Rowena King, Adam Rothenberg, Erin Maya Dark, Tramell Tillman, Will Seefried, Julianna Margulies
In today’s world, fashion trends and statuses play a significant role. And if someone does not conform to the accepted norms, he or she cannot escape disapproval and slanted glances. Alicia Kettle, a New York journalist, is actively struggling with overweight and suffers greatly because of her fullness.
She has to respond to a request from a women’s organization and provide letters written to the editorial board of the magazine by girls worried about the fact that their bodies are far from ideal. And in the media there are reports of a secret group executing men suspected of crimes against women.
Shrill (serial)
- IMDB Rating – 7.3
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Production: USA / 2019
- Director: Andrew DeYoung, Shaka King, Carrie Brownstein
- Starring: Aidy Bryant, Lolly Adefope, John Cameron Mitchell, Ian Owens, Scott Engdahl, Luka Jones, Patti Harrison, Sean Tarjoto, Julia Sweeney
Annie is an editorial assistant, a young and vivacious girl. Her boss, Gabe Perrish, is unwilling to give her a more prestigious and responsible job. He only waves off the requests. Everyone who is close to Annie, even her mother and a close friend, reproach the girl that she is too full. And this is so fed up with the girl that she decides to change her outlook and attitude to life, keeping her body unchanged.
She starts an Internet blog, in which she considers the problem of overweight in a very positive way. Talking to people, she realizes how important a topic she touches on in her articles. Actress Aidy Bryant has already decided to make drastic changes, as it is known that Annie will lose weight, but how much?
Fast Food Nation
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Drama, comedy
- Production: UK, USA, Mexico / 2006
- Worldwide Box Office: $2,059,246
- Director: Richard Linklater
- Starring: Patricia Arquette, Luis Guzman, Ethan Hawke, Ashley Johnson, Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ana Claudia Talancon, Wilmer Valderrama, Juan Carlos Serran.
Don Henderson helped develop the most popular dish on the menu of a well-known hamburger chain. He is in marketing and learns that E. coli has been found in the meat being delivered. Don goes to the meat processing plant to find out what’s going on.
A college student, Amber, works part-time at one of the chain’s outlets. She is greatly impressed by a group of young activists who decide to free the cattle from the factory pen. However, their failed attempt has them very perplexed. Illegal Mexican immigrants are willing to take any job, even one as traumatizing as the one at the Uni-Globe plant.
The film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006.
Run Fatboy Run
- IMDB Rating – 6.6
- Genre: Melodrama, comedy, sport
- Production: UK, USA / 2007
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $33,463,522
- Director: David Schwimmer
- Starring: Simon Pegg, Thandiwe Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Harish Patel, India de Befort, Matthew Fenton, Simon Day, Ruth Sheen, Tyrone Huggins.
Participants of the London Marathon running along the Thames Embankment. And one of them is Dennis Doyle. A few years ago, he left his pregnant fiancée just before their wedding because he was afraid of the responsibility. Strangely, they remained friends.
Now the guy finds out that Libby has started dating Whitt, a successful businessman, and that he’s going to participate in a charity marathon. Dennis has no choice. He needs to show Libby and his five-year-old son Jake that he’s in great shape and doing well too. But getting to the finish line isn’t easy at all, especially when some people don’t want you to.
Director D. Schwimmer can be seen in a cameo – he hands Dennis a mug of beer at the end of the movie.
Mince alors!
- IMDB Rating – 5.4
- Genre: Comedy
- Production: France / 2012
- Budget: €7,500,000
- Director: Charlotte de Türkheim
- Starring: Victoria Abril, Lola Dewaere, Catherine Osmalen, Gregory Fetoussi, Mehdi Nebbou, Julia Piaton, Martin Ducken, Pauline Lefebvre, Valerie Moreau, Emilie Gavois-Kahn
Nina has a creative job. She is an employee of a Parisian fashion house and understands perfectly well how a successful modern woman should look like. But she gradually gains pounds, so much so that it can no longer be hidden.
Her husband sends Nina to an Alpine resort to make it easier for her to lose weight. On vacation, she gets into various funny situations and all because of new friends – Emily and Sophie. In this French comedy there are many motivational moments, calling for weight loss.
Director Charlotte de Tuerquame, who is waging a relentless battle with her own pounds, shot the film at the Bride-les-Bains resort, a weight-loss center.
Donut Liusya (serial)
- Genre: Melodrama
- Production: Russia, Ukraine / 2011
- Budget: $1,000,000
- Director: Alexander Itygilov Jr.
- Starring: Alexander Konstantinov, Lydia Velezheva, Olga Prokofieva, Anatoly Lobotsky, Dmitry Lalenkov, Tatiana Kravchenko, Artem Grigoriev, Ostap Stupka, Olesya Zhurakovskaya, Oksana Stashenko.
Lovely and somewhat funny Lucy’s parents die and she leaves Yalta for Siberia to stay with her grandfather, a former professional intelligence agent. When she grows up, Aunt Veronica suggests she go to her homeland to restore her legal rights to half of the mansion and the family business.
But no one is waiting for her there. Relatives have long settled the entire estate and consider themselves full-fledged masters. Powerful Maria Kazimirovna succeeds in much of what she has planned, and she has not the slightest desire to share the acquired wealth, so she decides to beat up Lucy. The family laughs at the hillbilly. But the pride of the family, the car racer Dima, unexpectedly takes her side.
In the series you can see the Ai-Petri Mountains, Foross Church, Massandra Palace of Alexander III.
Perfect Body
- IMDB Rating – 6.2
- Genre: Drama, Family, Sports
- Production: USA / 1997
- Director: Douglas Barr
- Starring: Amy Jo Johnson, Brett Cullen, Wendy Malick, Ray Baker, Tara Boger, Ron Melendez, Julie Patzwald, Kathy Rigby, Michelle Skalnick, Nicole McKay.
Gymnast Andy wants to join the national team and win a gold medal at the upcoming Olympics. But she needs to lose a few kilograms and then she can easily perform the most difficult exercises.
A goal-oriented girl makes such tough demands on herself that her health is affected. Eating disorder is expressed in the fact that Andi can’t stop after the desired weight is reached and becomes anorexic.
In this movie, actress E.D. Johnson performed all the athletic stunts by herself, without an understudy.
School for fat girls
- Genre: Melodrama, detective
- Production: Russia / 2010
- Director: Stanislav Nazirov
- Starring: Anna Ardova, Ksenia Gromova, Inga Oboldina, Ksenia Nepotrebzatnaya, Ivan Agapov, Sergei Makhovikov, Mikhail Politsemako, Dmitry Prokofiev, Boris Khvoshniansky, Mikhail Chepurov
Polina, Irina and Ksenia have difficult life situations. On the personal front – a complete failure. Ksenia lost her six-year-old daughter and began to pour alcohol on her grief. Irina’s wunderkid biologist husband left for America. Polina is a great cook and a great hostess, but her husband cheats on her.
Having got acquainted with each other women decide to declare war on the hated kilograms, to become slim and attractive. However, soon the friends find themselves in a dangerous situation and have to fight for their lives.
Phat Girlz
- IMDB Rating – 3.3
- Genre: Comedy
- Production: USA / 2006
- Budget: $3,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $7,401,890
- Director: Nnegest Lykke
- Starring: Monique, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Godfrey, Kendra S. Johnson, Joyful Drake, Dayo Ed, Felix Pire, Doug Ballard, Charles Duckworth, Jack Noseworthy
Jazmine Biltmore can’t come to terms with her fullness. She is a professional fashion designer and works in a department store. Following diets and weight loss products does not help her. She can’t even find the right clothes for her figure. She starts to develop her own fashion line and tries to get a loan to organize her business.
But everything changes when Jazmine wins a trip for three to Palm Springs and leaves with her friends for the weekend. There they meet Nigerians who admire their beautiful figures.
Despite the critics’ remarks, the film is considered a success.
That Sugar Film
- IMDB Rating – 7.4
- Genre: Documentary
- Production: Australia / 2014
- Worldwide Box Office: $1,226,399
- Director: Damon Gamo
- Starring: Damon Gamo, Hugh Jackman, Milla Bakaitis, Richard Davis, Skylar Delfinus, Christine Evans, Stephen Fry, Zoe Gamo, Lisa Glafchis, Benjamin Hancock
The director of the movie, Australian Damon Gamo, clearly demonstrates to the audience the consequences of following fashion trends when choosing food products and some features of healthy food.
This is hidden sugar, it can be found in fresh juice, non-fat yogurt, granola bars and other foods presented to consumers as the healthiest. Dimon is switching completely to products labeled “healthy.” But he’s not happy with the results.
The experts were authors of popular nutrition books.
