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Best Adam Sandler movies

If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Adam Sandler movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don't know about Adam Sandler.

TOP 25: Click

Character: Michael Newman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 2006
A harried workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.


TOP 24: Billy Madison

Character: Billy Madison
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1995
Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that he has what it takes to run the family business.

TOP 23: Grown Ups

Character: Lenny Feder
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2010
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.


TOP 22: Hotel Transylvania: Puppy!

Character: Count Dracula (voice)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Animation, Comedy
Release: 2017
The residents of Hotel Transylvania find their world turned upside-down when youngster Dennis gets a surprise monster-sized pet.


TOP 21: Top Five

Character: Adam Sandler
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 2014
A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancé talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show.

TOP 20: Big Daddy

Character: Sonny Koufax
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1999
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.


TOP 19: Murder Mystery

Character: Nicholas "Nick" Spitz
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Release: 2019
After attending a gathering on a billionaire's yacht during a European vacation, a New York cop and his wife become prime suspects when he's murdered.


TOP 18: Dirty Work

Character: Satan
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1998
Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant. The dirty duo brings down a movie theater manager and hires hookers to pose as dead bodies during a live TV ad. When a wealthy developer hires the guys to trash a building (so that he can have it condemned), problems arise and a feud ensues.

TOP 17: The Longest Yard

Character: Paul Crewe
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2005
Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game 'fixed' to turn out quite another way.


TOP 16: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Character: Danny Meyerowitz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2017
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.


TOP 15: Happy Gilmore

Character: Happy Gilmore
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1996
Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore -- whose unconventional approach and antics on the grass courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin -- is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.

TOP 14: Men, Women & Children

Character: Don Truby
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2014
Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.


TOP 13: Just Go with It

Character: Danny Maccabee
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2011
A plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.


TOP 12: The Wedding Singer

Character: Robbie Hart
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1998
Robbie, a local rock star turned wedding singer, is dumped on the day of his wedding. Meanwhile, waitress Julia finally sets a wedding date with her fiancée Glenn. When Julia and Robbie meet and hit it off, they find that things are more complicated than anybody thought.


TOP 11: Blended

Character: Jim
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2014
After a bad blind date, a man and woman find themselves stuck together at a resort for families, where their attractions grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.

TOP 10: 50 First Dates

Character: Henry Roth
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2004
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because the delightful Lucy has no short-term memory, so Henry must woo her day after day until he finally sweeps her off her feet.


TOP 9: Hotel Transylvania 2

Character: Dracula (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2015
When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.


TOP 8: Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

Character: Count Dracula (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2018
Dracula, Mavis, Johnny and the rest of the Drac Pack take a vacation on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship, where Dracula falls in love with the ship’s captain, Ericka, who’s secretly a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, the notorious monster slayer.


TOP 7: Hotel Transylvania

Character: Count Dracula (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Release: 2012
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything!


TOP 6: Punch-Drunk Love

Character: Barry Egan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2002
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

TOP 5: Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special

Character: Himself
Genre: Comedy, TV Movie
Release: 2015
A three-hour prime-time special celebrating SNL '​s fortieth year on the air.


TOP 4: I Am Chris Farley

Character: Himself
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2015
I am Chris Farley tells his hilarious, touching and wildly entertaining story - from his early days in Madison, Wisconsin, to his time at Second City and Saturday Night Live, then finally his film career (which included hits like Tommy Boy and Black Sheep). The film showcases his most memorable characters and skits from film and television and also includes interviews and insights from his co-stars, family and friends - including the likes of Christina Applegate, Dan Aykroyd, Mike Myers, Bob Odenkirk, Bob Saget and Adam Sandler.


TOP 3: Reign Over Me

Character: Charlie Fineman
Genre: Drama
Release: 2007
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.


TOP 2: Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh

Character: Himself
Genre: Comedy, Music, TV Movie
Release: 2018
Adam Sandler takes his comical musical musings back out on the road, from comedy clubs to concert halls to one very unsuspecting subway station.


TOP 1: Uncut Gems

Character: Howard Ratner
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2019
Howard Ratner, a charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score, makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime.

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