roller-skating
23 movies and shows
Career Opportunities
Fri, 29 Mar 1991
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.
The Rink
Mon, 04 Dec 1916
After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.
New Kids in Town
Fri, 05 Oct 1990
Two exceptional kung fu students leave the mainland to work for their uncle in Hong Kong. Before long the students and their cousin, get mixed up in a drug smuggling ring. They decide to take on the gang in an all-out action fest.
It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown
Tue, 27 Sep 1988
Spike waves to a young woman driving a red pickup truck through the desert of Needles, California every day; it is the highlight of his day. In this combined animated and live-action special, we meet an aerobics instructor, Jenny, who wants to be a big city jazz dancer. She and Spike drive around looking at the desert scenery and spending some time at a roller rink. However, when Spike is accidentally thrown out of the skating rink he runs off and is pursued by people on a nighttime coyote hunt.
Bliss
Fri, 05 Feb 2021
A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is just a computer simulation. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be some truth to Isabel’s wild conspiracy.
Follow That Bird
Fri, 02 Aug 1985
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
Xanadu
Fri, 08 Aug 1980
Kira, a Greek muse incarnated on Earth to inspire people, helps Dan McGuire and an artist named Sonny Malone to meet. She inspires them to build a huge disco roller rink called Xanadu.
Rollerball
Fri, 08 Feb 2002
In this fast action-packed thriller, Jonathan, Marcus, and Aurora compete in a dangerous, fierce sport called Rollerball. Although, Johnathan and Marcus try to quit, cruel and vindictive promoter Alexi Petrovich encourages them to still participate.
The Rink
Fri, 06 Dec 2019
At a roller rink in Texas in the dead of night, a young women called Lo is nervous as she's in the process of asking Mae, another young woman, something important.
The Boogeywoman
Sat, 02 Feb 2019
While roller-skating, Sam, a sensitive teenage girl, hears about her small town's local legend: the Boogeywoman.
Solarbabies
Wed, 26 Nov 1986
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.
Roller Squad
Sun, 18 Jul 2021
A mysterious serial killer attacks the roller skater community in London. The police cannot catch him, as he is a very skilled and fast roller skater himself. A group of friends decide to take the matter in their own hands, and organise a man hunt across the streets of London.
Blade Rollers
Sat, 31 Aug 2024
Honour West and Joan Camuglia-May share their experiences in this upbeat roller-skating documentary.
L.A. Roll
Wed, 19 Feb 2020
As the pressures of daily life mount in a rapidly changing city, some residents turn to dance roller skating as an activity for release, creating a style unique to Los Angeles.
United Skates
Thu, 19 Apr 2018
When America's last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands battle in a racially charged environment to save an underground subculture.
SHRED
Fri, 20 Sep 2024
A group of queer Latinx skaters struggle with crippling mental health and societal expectations in Southern California. In their local skate community, they find cathartic release, chosen family and mastery of empowerment.
I Constantly Thank God for Esteban
Invalid Date
Home alone on the eve of her First Communion, 12-year-old Carmen receives an unexpected visit from a trio of neighborhood roller girls and scooter boys. While at her home, the kids make Carmen painfully aware of her religious upbringing, ultimately stealing her First Communion dress, culminating in a final showdown at their local roller rink.
Roller Town
Thu, 15 Sep 2011
Roller-skaters fight back against the video-game gangsters trying to take over their town.
At Full Speed
Mon, 07 Jun 1982
A young couple who are amateur roller-skating buffs practice their chosen avocation at a Parisian roller rink. Their hopes rise with a chance to go to Chicago to compete, especially when a magazine reporter assures them that his company will back them -- but then lets them know some sex-related business is a part of the package. Caught up in the couple's drama are several other characters who look like they might need some help themselves, making the problem of how to get to the Windy City seem more and more insoluble.