35+ Best Ice Skating Movies (figure skating) (2024)

Looking for ideas for your next movie night? Below you will find a detailed list of ice skating movies about figure skating movies. Plus, some TV shows and documentaries about famous figure skaters, important ice skating moments and ice skating shows. Enjoy!

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About this list best ice skating movies

Best Figure Skating Movies

Ice Skating Cartoon shows for kids

General ice skating movie

Ice skating documentaries (figure skaters)

Ice skating TV shows

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About this list best ice skating movies

Below is a list as complete as I can about movies, TV shows and documentaries about ice skating (figure skating).
If you have other suggestions, please let me know.

Note: in most movies the actors are not ice-skaters - don't be disappointed by the obviousness of their beginner level, even if producers try hiding it.

Note2: if you are looking for hockey movies and documentaries, head to this other article with 35 suggestions!

Best Figure Skating Movies

Let's start with the movies. All would make great gifts for figure skaters.

Ice Princess

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Woman

Summary:
Disney movie - a teenage girl learns ice skating to back up her physics paper to win a Harvard scholarship. In the process, her love for the sport grows and she becomes a champion.

Actress playing the skater:Michelle Trachtenberg

Note: Michel Kwan and Brian Boitano appear in the movie

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or get it on DVD

Go figure (2005)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Woman

Summary:
Disney movie - a teenage figure skater gets accepted to train with the best coach at a private boarding school but under a hockey scholarship. She learns teamwork and friendship but will have a difficult decision to make.

Actress playing the skater: Jordan Hinson

You can watch it on Amazon prime

Ice Castles (version 1978)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Woman

Summary:
A teen from Iowa is discovered by a top skating coach and goes to Colorado to be trained. She gets injured and becomes blind shortly after becoming successful at skating but returns against all odds.

Actress playing the skater: Lynn-Holly Johnson

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or Get it on DVD

Ice Castles (version 2010)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Woman

Summary:
Remake of the 1978 Oscar-nominated movie of the same name - same story

Actress playing the skater: Taylor Firth

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or get it on DVD

I, Tonya (2017)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Woman

Summary:
The movie retraces the career of figure skater Toney Harding from age 4. The film won an Oscar for Best Performance by an actress in a Supporting Role

Actress playing the skater: Margot Robbie

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or get it on DVD

The Cutting Edge 1 (1992)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Pairs

Summary:
This is a classic. During the 1988 Winter Olympics a hockey player's career is cut short by an accident. He is recruited to train in pair figure skating with a difficult rich figure skater. It is the story of their partnership for the Olympics.

Actors playing the skaters: Moira Kelly and D.B. Sweeney

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or get it on DVD

The Cutting Edge 2 - Going for the gold (2006)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Pairs

Summary:
The main character is the daughter of the original movie's pair. She cannot progress in her career as a single figure skater after an injury which limits her triple jumps capability. She looks for a partner to switch to a pair skating career.

Actors playing the skaters:Christy Carlson Romano & Ross Thomas

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or get it on DVD

The Cutting Edge 3 - Chasing the dream (2008)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Pairs

Summary:
The star of the second movie has become a coach and is recruiting a woman hockey player to pair up with a boy figure skater. She trains them to the top.

Actors playing the skaters:Francia Raisa and Matt Lanter

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or get it on DVD

See Also
Figure skating levels, tests and ages (USA) - explanationsFigure skating | History & CompetitionsOlympic figure skating season 21/22: What we learnedIlia Malinin wins first world figure skating title with historic six quadruple jumps

The Cutting Edge 4 - Fire & Ice (2010)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Pairs

Summary:
The skater from the 3rd movie turns to teaching after her partner is injured. But she finally decides to team up with a rebellious speed-skater to get back on the ice as a pair in figure skating.

Actors playing the skaters: Francia Raisa and Brendan Fehr

You can watch it on Amazon prime

Blades of Glory (2007)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Pairs

Summary:
Two rival Olympic skaters lose their gold medals and are banned from men's single events. They find a loophole and qualify as a pair.

Actors playing the skaters:Job Heder and Will Ferrell

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or get it on DVD

Ice Girls (2016)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Woman

Summary:
At 15 years of age, an aspiring figure skater tries a comeback after suffering from a serious injury.

Actors playing the skaters: Michaela du Toit

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or get it on DVD

Ice Dreams (2010)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Woman

Summary:
Hallmark Channel original television movie about a former champion skater and Olympic contender who returns to coach a talented teenage girl.

You can watch it on Amazon prime

Ice: The movie (2018)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Pairs

Summary:
Story of two figure skaters competing at high level, and the life that surrounds this career - with pressure, conflicts and some difficult decisions for the parents.

Actress playing the main skater:Maddison Bullock

You can watch it on Amazon prime

A promise kept – the Oksana Baiul story (1995)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Pairs

Summary:
The dramatized biography of the famous skater Oksana Baiul - a Russian orphan who became a gold medalist. There is not much skating in the movie.

Actors playing the skaters:Moica Keena (and a performance by Oksana Baiul at the end)

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or get it on DVD

Skating through it (2012)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Adults

Summary:
2 adult figure skaters prepare for the adult national competition while battling personal issues (health and family)

Watch it on Amazon prime

Champions : a love story (1979)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Pairs

Summary:
A hockey player trains with a figure skater to skate as a pair and they fall in love - until a traffic accident happens, after which she has to persevere to succeed in single skating.

Actors playing the skaters:Joy Leduc and Jimmy Mc Nicol

Get it on DVD

Ice (2018)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Pairs

Summary:
A champion figure skater, how she started, her success with the top Russian figure skater, her accident... and how a hockey player brought her back to the ice.

Actors playing the skaters:Mariya Aronova, Viel Babichev and Maskim Belborodov

Get it on DVD

Ice 2 (2020)

Sport:
Figure Skating - Pairs

Summary:
Sequel to be in theater in Russia in February 2020.

The Petrichor (2020)

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Sport:
Figure Skating - Solo woman

Summary:
Maya sopped ice skating because of a personal tragedy.
But at the age of 20 she decides to return to the ice and enter the competitive world.
Canadian Movie

Actors playing the skaters:Olga Korsak

See Also
Figure skating off-ice training routine - 6 essentials

Figure skating show - Holiday on ice: Under the desert sky (2006)

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Hosted by Nancy Kerrigan

Watch it on Amazon Prime

Blades of courage (1988)

Sport:
Figure Skating - Woman

Summary:
A young Canadian skater succeeds at the National Championship and is drafted for the World Event. She starts training with a strict top coach, but he ruins her. She returns home defeated but finds the courage to start again.

Actors playing the skaters: Christianne Hirt

Kiss & Cry

Note on Kiss & Cry - the main character is a figure skater, but this movie is more about singing.

Want to see more figure skating videos (even without a story)? Check out my article about some of the best figure skating Instagram account to follow.

Also check out my list of figure skating books worth reading.

Ice Skating Cartoon shows for kids

Angelina Ballerina: Dancing on ice (2011)

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Summary:
When her skates go missing, will she be able to perform her solo?

Watch it on Amazon

Dora Ice Skating Spectacular

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Summary:
Dora and Boots need help to rescue the Snow prince when an ice witch takes everyone's ice skates.

Watch it on Amazon

General ice skating movie

Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958)

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Sport:
Ice skating

Summary:
Old movie set in Holland. 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel want to participate in the great ice skating race on the canal.

Watch it on Amazon

Ice skating documentaries (figure skaters)

Below are some documentaries about:

  • famous figure skaters and their story
  • history of ice skating
  • historical figure skating moments

The Ice King

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Summary:
The story of legend figure skater Jogn Curry who won the 1976 Olympics and made a deep impact in the world of sport in general.

You can watch it on Amazon prime
or get it on DVD

The Fabulous Ice Age (2014)

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Summary:

Documentary about the American touring ice shows and how they used to dominate the family entertainment segment.

Watch it on Amazon prime

or Get it on DVD

The price of Gold (2014)

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Summary:

30 for 30 documentary about the Kerrigan - Harding incident

Watch it on Amazon prime

Sharp Edges (2018)

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Summary:

The early years for Tonya Hardings' career.

Watch it on Amazon prime

Torvill and Dean (2018)

Documentary about the most significant moments of the carrier of Torvill and Dean, the legendary British ice dancers (who won Gold at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics).

If looking on YouTube, you may find it.

Legend lives on : Katarina Witt (2018)

Summary:

Interview and footage to retrace the career of Katarina Witt

Watch it on YouTube on the Olympic Channel

The Haydenettes: A hidden Dynasty (2017) - Synchronized skating documentary

Summary:

Thesis project about the history of synchronized skating and one of its top team: The Haydenettes.

Watch it on YouTube on the Natalie Wadia's Channel

Michelle Kwan (2014)

Summary:

ESPN Classic Sports Century documentary on Michelle Kwan

Watch it on YouTube

Reflections on ice: A Diary of Ladies Figure skating (1998)

Summary:

Interviews and archive footage to learn more about the development of lady figure skating.

Watch it on YouTube

Chasing Ice - the story of Fen Ice Skating (2017)

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Summary:
It retraces the story of Fen Ice skating and the folklore surrounding it. From Victorian times, to the fields of Fen to modern skaters.

Watch it on Amazon prime

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Ice skating TV shows

Spinning out

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TV show following a figure skating pair in the US.
The series is more about mental illness than figure skating, but it does include skating storylines.

You can watch it on Netflix.

Zero Chill(2021 - )

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TV show following twins - one is a figure skater, the other one is a hockey player

You can watch it on Netflix.

Tessa and Scott (2004)

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Summary:

The lives of Canadian ice dancer pair, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

Watch it on Amazon prime

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