Movies Like Skate Kitchen (2018)

Skate Kitchen is a 2018 comedy, drama film from Crystal Moselle with a MovieMagicScore of 6.7/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Paranoid Park and Grind.

Comedy Drama

Paranoid Park

2007

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

6.5

MagicScore

Grind

2003

Four skaters follow their idol on his summer tour in an attempt to get noticed, get sponsored, and become stars themselves.

5.9

MagicScore

Suncoast

2024

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

6.7

MagicScore

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

2023

When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

7.2

MagicScore

Lady Bird

2017

Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

7.2

MagicScore

Girl in Progress

2012

As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.

5.6

MagicScore

Water Lilies

2007

Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.

6.5

MagicScore

Wild Chicks in Love

2007

Five teenage girls navigate the twists and turns of their complicated emotional lives, and learn the secrets of the heart through their friendship.

6.4

MagicScore

How to Have Sex

2023

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

6.2

MagicScore

#10

The Wild Chicks and Life

2009

The Wild Chicks are slowly growing out of their youthful gang years and have to face the worries of growing up on the sidelines of a big class trip before graduation.

6.0

MagicScore

#11

Puppylove

2013

When a free-spirited girl befriends a young teenager, they leave childhood behind to embrace a dangerous world of clubbing and sex with strange men.

5.7

MagicScore

#12

Turning Red

2022

Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.

7.3

MagicScore

#13

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

2004

After moving to New Jersey, Lola bags a coveted role in a school play, which earns her the wrath of Carla, the most popular girl in school, who will do anything to ruin Lola's life.

5.7

MagicScore

#14

Teen's Confessions

2014

Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.

6.3

MagicScore

#15

Missing

2023

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

7.4

MagicScore

#16

Eighth Grade

2018

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

7.2

MagicScore

#17

Amateur Teens

2015

A group of normal 14-year-old teenagers at a secondary school in Zürich with the normal yearnings for love and acceptance. But the power of social media, with its high-gloss selfies and perpetual pressure towards cooler and sexier, increasingly forces the kids to deny their true feelings. So a tragedy runs its course, one in which it is almost impossible to differentiate between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence.

4.8

MagicScore

#18

Summertime

2015

In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.

6.7

MagicScore

#19

My 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.

6.9

MagicScore

#20

The Land

2016

Four teenage boys devote their summer to escaping the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, by pursuing a dream life of professional skateboarding. But when they get caught in the web of the local queenpin, their motley brotherhood is tested, threatening to make this summer their last.

6.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Skate Kitchen?

The top films similar to Skate Kitchen by MovieMagicScore are Paranoid Park (6.5), Grind (5.9), Suncoast (6.7). Each shares comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Skate Kitchen worth watching?

Skate Kitchen holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.7/10 from 129 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Skate Kitchen?

Skate Kitchen (2018) is a comedy, drama film directed by Crystal Moselle, starring Rachelle Vinberg, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran.

Where can I find more recommendations like Skate Kitchen?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Skate Kitchen

This ranked list pairs Skate Kitchen (2018), a comedy and drama film from Crystal Moselle, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Rachelle Vinberg take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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