Skateboarding on Film
by olliegrind | created - 18 Mar 2013 | updated - 28 Mar 2021 | PublicSkateboarding in movies. No documentaries. No quick shots of a skater - these are films where skating is a main part or at least feature a contest or race.
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1. It's a Bikini World (1967)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Musical
Male chauvinist Mike attempts to get an intelligent burgeoning feminist Delilah into his harem. When she resists, Mike then poses as his brother Herbert, but in the process falls in love with Delilah.
Director: Stephanie Rothman | Stars: Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Bobby Pickett, Suzie Kaye
Votes: 386
Downhill race!
2. Skaterdater (1966)
17 min | Short
A group of young boys show their skateboarding skills around town, trying to impress each other. One boy keeps crashing into the girl on a bike so they decide to hang out instead. His friends don't understand his budding romance.
Director: Noel Black | Stars: Michael Mel, Melissa Mallory, Gregg Carroll, Gary Hill
Votes: 303
3. Skateboard (1978)
PG | 97 min | Drama, Sport
A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and enters them in a downhill race. If they win, they will get $20,000.
Director: George Gage | Stars: Allen Garfield, Kathleen Lloyd, Leif Garrett, Richard Van der Wyk
Votes: 335
4. Thrashin' (1986)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.
Director: David Winters | Stars: Josh Brolin, Robert Rusler, Pamela Gidley, Brooke McCarter
Votes: 5,055
5. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Crime
The misfit Police Academy (1984) graduates now are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets.
Director: Jim Drake | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf
Votes: 45,767 | Gross: $28.06M
6. Gleaming the Cube (1989)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A young avid skateboarder uncovers a government conspiracy while investigating his adoptive brother's mysterious death.
Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Richard Herd, Le Tuan
Votes: 9,032 | Gross: $2.78M
7. The Skateboard Kid (1993)
PG | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
No one could be more bored than Zack, the new kid in town with no friends in sight. When a gang of hip, skateboarding thrashers start cruising his neighborhood, Zack hopes his luck will ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Swerdlove | Stars: Timothy Busfield, Bess Armstrong, Cliff De Young, Rick Dean
Votes: 722
8. The Skateboard Kid II (1994)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Take a roller coaster ride full of high octane adventure as 12 year old Sammy takes to the skies. With the help of a magical flying skateboard, Sammy ends up the hottest skateboarder in ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Stevens | Stars: Dee Wallace, Bruce Davison, Andrew Stevens, Trenton Knight
Votes: 411
9. MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate (2001)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
It seems that Jack's hockey skills translate directly into tearing up the halfpenny and popping sick grinds. With his new buddy Ben by his side Jack takes off on a cross-country skateboard competition tour with hilarious results.
Director: Robert Vince | Stars: Cameron Bancroft, Bob Burnquist, Bernie, Louie
Votes: 1,372
10. Grind (2003)
PG-13 | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Four skaters follow their idol on his summer tour in an attempt to get noticed, get sponsored, and become stars themselves.
Director: Casey La Scala | Stars: Adam Brody, Joey Kern, Mike Vogel, Vince Vieluf
Votes: 13,388 | Gross: $5.11M
11. Lords of Dogtown (2005)
PG-13 | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970s.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, Johnny Knoxville
Votes: 58,235 | Gross: $11.01M
12. Wassup Rockers (2005)
R | 111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A group of teenage boys opt to form their own identity by riding skateboards, wearing tight pants.
Director: Larry Clark | Stars: Jonathan Velasquez, Francisco Pedrasa, Milton Velasquez, Usvaldo Panameno
Votes: 5,019 | Gross: $0.22M
13. Hardflip (2012)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Drama
After growing up with his single mom, skateboarder Caleb, 18, finds his busy, rich architect dad. He contacts him, when his mom's hospitalized with cancer. He joins a skateboard competition, when rent's up.
Director: Johnny Remo | Stars: Randy Wayne, John Schneider, Rosanna Arquette, Sean Michael Afable
Votes: 863 | Gross: $0.10M
14. Machotaildrop (2009)
91 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Machotaildrop is a highly visual and fantastical journey about an amateur skateboarder, Walter Rhum, who realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world's greatest skateboard ... See full summary »
Director: Corey Adams | Stars: Anthony Amedori, James Faulkner, Rick McCrank, Lukács Bicskey
Votes: 182
15. Shredder Orpheus (1990)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
Skateboarder named Orpheus and friends go to Hell to stop television signals that are brainwashing America.
Director: Robert McGinley | Stars: Robert McGinley, Megan Murphy, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Linda Severt
Votes: 189
16. This Ain't California (2012)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History, Sport
This Ain't California is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the world of roller boarding in the German Democratic Republic. A coming-of-age tale of ... See full summary »
Director: Marten Persiel | Stars: David Nathan, Anneke Schwabe, Bill Clinton, Zaneta Fuchsová
Votes: 1,085
17. Dishdogz (2005)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Drama, Sport
A coming of age story about a teenager working at an extreme sports camp as a dishwasher and his relationship with the chef, who we come to find out was a skateboarding pioneer back in the ... See full summary »
Director: Mikey Hilb | Stars: Marshall Allman, Haylie Duff, Luke Perry, Ryan Sheckler
Votes: 388
18. Skate Kitchen (2018)
R | 106 min | Drama
A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City.
Director: Crystal Moselle | Stars: Rachelle Vinberg, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran, Kabrina Adams
Votes: 4,867 | Gross: $0.24M
19. Sk8 Dawg (2018)
G | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Fourteen year old Tommy Schooner comes from a family whose lives revolve around skateboarding. His mom and dad own a rapidly growing skateboard company called Modern Skate that is preparing... See full summary »
Director: Ari Novak | Stars: J.D. Hoppe, Alexandria Lian, Joey Lawrence, Joe Anderson
Votes: 100
20. Mid90s (2018)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.
Director: Jonah Hill | Stars: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges, Na-kel Smith
Votes: 78,019 | Gross: $7.36M
21. Street Dreams (2009)
R | 88 min | Drama, Sport
This story is based where the skateboard culture is the most foreign, the Midwest. Derrick Cabrera, like all skaters, has a dream of being sponsored and one day going pro. He is an up and ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Zamoscianyk | Stars: Paul Rodriguez, Ryan Dunn, Rob Dyrdek, Terry Kennedy
Votes: 1,349 | Gross: $0.08M
22. Sk8 Life (2006)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A group of skaters are assembled to make a video at a legendary spot. They soon discover its days are numbered and band together to save it.
Director: Wyeth Clarkson | Stars: Mark Bajcar, Silas Borsos, Chris Boykin, Chad Dickson
Votes: 47
23. Skate or Die (2008)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When they happen to witness the murder of a drug dealer in an underground car park, Jerome and Benjamin, teenagers from the suburbs, need all their wits - but more importantly their ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Courtois | Stars: Mickey Mahut, Idriss Diop, Elsa Pataky, Philippe Bas
Votes: 643
24. Paranoid Park (2007)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller
Votes: 31,928 | Gross: $0.49M
25. Veer! (2012)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jesse Sorensen ruled Florida as a pro skateboarder for over a decade. He had it all - a lucrative skateboarding contract, girls, fame and an extravagant lifestyle. Now six years later, past... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Barry | Stars: Jesse Gay, Erin Cline, James Nguyen, Corsica Wilson
Votes: 81 | Gross: $0.00M
26. Boom Boom Sabotage (2006 Video)
TV-PG | 70 min | Animation, Adventure, Sport
Tony Hawk's Boom Boom HuckJam arrives in the town of Lincolville and bumps a crummy circus. The evil circus ringleader, Grimley, exacts his revenge by kidnapping Tony and jacking the ... See full summary »
Director: Johnny Darrell | Stars: Tony Hawk, Noel Callahan, Michael Dobson, Michael Donovan
Votes: 227
27. Deck Dogz (2005)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Poker, Spasm and Blue Flame, are trying to escape the law, school, parents, their demons and a couple of criminals to realise their burning ambition; to meet world class skating champion, Tony Hawk and compete in his skating competition.
Director: Steve Pasvolsky | Stars: Sean Kennedy, Richard Wilson, Ho Thi Lu, Maris J. Caune
Votes: 299
28. Concrete Kids (2018)
Not Rated | 82 min | Adventure, Family, Sport
Two nine-year-old boys from Venice CA set off on a mission to cross Los Angeles on skateboards at night in an attempt to reach the Staples Center by 8am the next morning for a survival contest.
Director: Lije Sarki | Stars: Christopher Romero, Myles Strampello, Jacob Messex, Joey Brezinski
Votes: 145
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