Adam Sandler movies are so prominent that they could be their own genre.
Sandler is known as one of the greatest, most prolific and highest-grossing comedians of all time since rising to fame as a Saturday Night Live cast member. His films have amassed him a $41 million net worth, per Forbes, and he was awarded the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2023.
Many of Sandler’s films, like Billy Madison and Hubie Halloween, are known for their over-the-top silliness while having a lot of heart. He has also starred in more dramatic films, including The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) and Uncut Gems.
Notably, Sandler’s wife, Jackie Sandler, has made cameos in several of the actor’s projects, including 50 First Dates, Grown Ups and Hubie Halloween.
Despite having been making films for over 35 years, Sandler is showing no signs of slowing down, even telling PEOPLE that 2025’s Happy Gilmore 2 — the sequel to one of his most well-received films — has reinspired him in front of the camera.
“Well, we worked hard trying to write something that we thought people would have a good time with, and I’m more than excited, probably the most excited I’ve been in many years to shoot something,” he shared.
From breakout films like 1996’s Happy Gilmore to its 2025 sequel, here’s where to watch every Adam Sandler movie.
Billy Madison (1995)
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Sandler portrays the less-than-intelligent manchild titular character alongside a supporting cast featuring Bridgette Wilson and Chris Farley. Billy must go through all 12 grades of school — as his father paid for him to pass previously — to prove he is worthy of taking over his father’s company, despite being 27 years old while restarting first grade.
Watch Billy Madison on Amazon Prime Video, or rent and buy on Apple TV
Happy Gilmore (1996)
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Sandler plays a failed hockey player named Happy Gilmour whose temper slapshot translates into an impressive golf swing. He quickly realizes he can enter golf tournaments to win money and save his grandmother’s house from being repossessed.
Watch Happy Gilmore on Netflix, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV.
The Wedding Singer (1998)
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Set in 1985, Sandler plays wedding singer Robbie Hart, who loses faith in love after getting left at the altar by his bride-to-be. He begins to fall in love again when he meets Julia Sullivan (Drew Barrymore), but he must win her over before she marries perennial jerk Glenn Gulia (Matthew Glave)
Watch The Wedding Singer on Tubi, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
The Waterboy (1998)
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A 31-year-old Bobby Boucher (Sandler) lives in Louisiana, where his only friend is his mother (Kathy Bates) and his main joy comes from being a college football waterboy. When coach Klein (Henry Winkler) discovers Bobby can tackle during one of his outbursts, he gets an opportunity to become a football star, but must keep this secret from his mother.
Rent and buy The Waterboy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
Big Daddy (1999)
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In Big Daddy, Sandler portrays 32-year-old Sonny Koufax, who gets dumped by his girlfriend after struggling to take on adult responsibilities. However, when a 5-year-old boy named Julian McGrath (Dylan and Cole Sprouse) is left on his doorstep, Sonny adopts him in an attempt to prove he’s capable and tries to win back his ex-girlfriend.
Watch Big Daddy on Netflix, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
Little Nicky (2000)
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Little Nicky features Sandler as the not-so-evil son of the devil in the titular role, who must go to Earth to stop his two evil brothers (Rhys Ifans and Tommy Lister Jr.) from taking over. However, Nicky finds that he likes it on Earth, making friends and developing a love interest. Still, he must tap into his powers to defeat his brothers.
Watch Little Nicky on Pluto TV, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
Anger Management (2003)
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Dave (Sandler) works as a secretary who struggles with public displays of affection. After losing his temper on a flight, he ends up getting sentenced to anger management classes. But it turns out the therapist he’s assigned to work with Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson), who has wildly unconventional methods.
Watch Anger Management on Tubi, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
50 First Dates (2004)
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Playboy veterinarian Henry (Sandler) finally meets a woman he can’t get out of his mind as he falls in love with art teacher Lucy (Barrymore). Unfortunately, Lucy wakes up every day thinking it’s the same day without memory of the previous day. Henry must find a way to win her over daily and eventually forever in this unconventional romantic comedy.
Watch 50 First Dates on Netflix, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
Spanglish (2004)
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Spanglish explores cultural differences between families when Mexican immigrant Flor (Paz Vega) moves in with her daughter as housekeeper for the wealthy American chef John (Sandler) and his insecure wife Deborah (Téa Leoni) and their three kids.
Watch Spanglish on Netflix, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
The Longest Yard (2005)
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In this remake of the 2005 film starring Burt Reynolds, washed-up former NFL quarterback Paul Crewe (Sandler) goes to prison after driving drunk and must recruit a team of inmates to beat the guards in a football game. Paul forms his team with the help of Caretaker (Chris Rock) and coach Scarborough (Reynolds), but must overcome the warden trying to fix the game while playing for personal redemption.
Watch The Longest Yard on Hulu, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
Click (2006)
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In a classic tale of “be careful what you wish for,” workaholic architect Michael (Sandler) buys a magic universal remote control from Morty (Christopher Walken) that allows him to pause, fast forward and rewind through his life. However, Michael finds there are consequences as the remote takes control of his reality, and he begins to miss important parts of his life.
Watch Click on STARZ, or rent and buy Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)
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Hyper-masculine firefighters Chuck (Sandler) and widower Larry (Kevin James) pretend to be gay to get married so Larry can receive domestic partnership benefits for his kids. However, after an investigation is launched regarding the marriage’s validity, they find keeping up this ruse more difficult than expected.
Watch I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry on Amazon Prime Video or rent and buy on Apple TV
Funny People (2009)
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Legendary comic turned movie star George (Sandler) hires aspiring comic Ira (Seth Rogen) as a joke writer right after being diagnosed with a terminal disease. In a twist, George undergoes a low-success procedure that cures him and now must reevaluate his relationships while forming an unlikely friendship with Ira, who helps him try to win back his old flame Laura (Leslie Mann).
Watch Funny People on HBO Max, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
Grown Ups (2010)
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Lenny (Sandler), Eric (James), Kurt (Rock), Marcus (David Spade) and Rob (Rob Schneider) won a basketball championship together in 1978. After their coach’s (Blake Clark) death, the five friends reunite with their families for a weekend at a lake house where they both relive their past and confront the directions their lives have taken.
Watch Grown Ups on Netflix, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
Just Go with It (2011)
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Plastic surgeon Danny (Sandler) has been scamming women for years into believing he’s married, finding that this attracts women into sleeping with him. However, when he falls in love with a young teacher named Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), he enlists the help of divorced mother of two Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) to fake being married and having a family with him to keep up his lie.
Watch Just Go with It on Hulu, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
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In this animated monster comedy, Dracula (Sandler) runs the Hotel Transylvania, where monsters come to stay and no humans are allowed. One weekend, Dracula invites all his monster friends to celebrate his daughter Mavis’ (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday, but when a human named Johnny (Andy Samberg) shows up, Dracula must keep the human secret from the guests so he doesn’t jeopardize his hotel and career.
Watch Hotel Transylvania on Peacock, or rent and buy on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
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Harold (Dustin Hoffman) was a successful artist, but he wasn’t necessarily a great father to his three dysfunctional children: Danny (Sandler), Matthew (Ben Stiller) and Jean (Elizabeth Marvel). As Danny moves back in with Harold after his divorce, and Matthew is recently separated from his wife, the siblings reconnect with their aging father before an event celebrating him.
Watch The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) on Netflix
Murder Mystery (2019)
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After a chance encounter on a plane, NYPD officer Nick Spitz (Sandler) and his hairdresser wife Audrey (Aniston) are invited on a billionaire’s yacht during a European vacation. While on the yacht, a murder occurs, and the couple become prime suspects, so they must solve the case to prove their innocence.
You can stream Murder Mystery on Netflix
Uncut Gems (2019)
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Sandler plays gambling addict and jeweler Howard Ratner, who makes continuous high-stakes bets as he struggles to pay off debts and keep his business and family together in pursuit of the ultimate win.
Rent and buy Uncut Gems on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV
Hubie Halloween (2020)
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Paranoid, Halloween-obsessed Hubie Dubois a.k.a. Hubie Halloween is considered a joke in his town for worrying and caring so much. Still, when seemingly supernatural kidnappings start happening in town, it’s up to him to stop them.
Watch Hubie Halloween on Netflix
Hustle (2022)
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Sandler’s lifelong passion for basketball comes to the forefront when he portrays Philadelphia 76ers basketball scout extraordinaire Stanley Sugerman. Stanley is an NBA scout — and aspiring coach so he can spend more time with his family — who finds his passion for basketball rejuvenated when he finds a new prospect named Bo Cruz ( Juancho Hernangómez).
You can stream Hustle on Netflix
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)
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A Bat Mitzvah serves as a Jewish coming-of-age ceremony, so it’s only natural that it sets the stage for a hilarious and heartwarming tale in this Sandler family affair. Adam’s daughter Sunny stars as Stacy Friedman, a teenager who believes her Bat Mitzvah will determine her life’s outcome as she deals with her best friend Lydia (Samantha Lorraine) going behind her back to date the boy of her dreams, Andy Goldfarb (Dylan Hoffman).
Watch You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah on Netflix
Spaceman (2024)
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Cosmonaut Jakub Procházka (Sandler) is six months into his mission to the edge of the solar system when he starts to worry about his life back home and misses his pregnant wife Lenka (Carey Mulligan), with whom he’s having relationship issues. However, he finds an alien stowaway named Hanuš (Paul Dano) aboard his ship who wants to help him with his problems back on Earth.
Watch Spaceman on Netflix
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
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Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) is back in Happy Gilmore 2, the sequel to one of his most beloved films. Happy had a long, successful golf career and married Virginia Venit (Julie Bowen), but now must return to the sport he left behind to raise money for his daughter Vienna Gilmore (Sunny Sandler) to attend ballet school.
Watch Happy Gilmore 2 on Netflix
