Adam Sandler’s ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ and the 7 Best New Movies Coming to Netflix in July 2025

Netflix has a blockbuster lineup of movies arriving this July, right in the heart of the summer movie season. From long-awaited sequels, to all-time favorites, you’ll want to mark your calendars for when these titles make their way to the service in July.

Mission: Impossible 1-5

Available on: Tuesday, July 1

If you were one of the many who checked out Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning on the big screen earlier this summer, Netflix is giving you the chance to revisit the first five films in Academy Award nominee Tom Cruise‘s hit spy franchise.

The original Mission: Impossible sees Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and the IMF team go on a mission that gets sabotaged, leading him to suspect that there’s a mole in the covert government agency.
Mission: Impossible II sees Ethan teaming up with the cunning thief Nyah to secure a genetically modified disease that is being held by rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose.
Mission: Impossible III begins with Ethan Hunt having retired from the IMF and newly engaged to nurse Julia Meade. Ethan is soon called back into action to take down the volatile arms dealer Owen Davian.
Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol sees Ethan Hunt and the IMF being framed for bombing the Kremlin, leading to the agency being shut down. With fewer assets than ever, the IMF team must resort to near-impossible levels to clear their names.
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation begins with the IMF team having gone their separate ways, only to be called upon once more to take their most dangerous foe to date, the organization known as the Syndicate, comprised of rogue government agents.

Brian De Palma (Scarface) directed the first movie, John Woo (Face/Off) directed the second, J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) directed the third, Academy Award winner Brad Bird (The Incredibles) directed Ghost Protocol, and Academy Award winner Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) directed Rogue Nation. Cruise stars in all five movies, which also feature a strong ensemble that includes Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction), Henry Czerny (Clear and Present Danger), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead), Rebecca Ferguson (Dune), Academy Award winner Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy), Michelle Monaghan (The White Lotus Season 3), the late Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote), Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Thandiwe Newton (Westworld), Sean Harris (Spencer), Dougary Scott (Ever After: A Cinderella Story), Academy Award nominee Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), and Paula Patton (Precious), among others.

‘The Old Guard 2’

Available on: Wednesday, July 2

After five years and several delays, The Old Guard 2 is finally premiering on Netflix.

Sometime after the events of the first movie, Andy is struggling to move on after losing her immortality. When a new threat emerges, Andy must call upon her team of immortal warriors once more to take down their most dangerous opponent yet, Discord, who just so happens to be the very first of the Immortals. To make matters even more complicated, Andy’s former ally, Quynh, has escaped her underwater imprisonment and has found her way back into her life.

Victoria Mahoney (Yelling to the Sky) directs the sequel, taking over from the first film’s director, Gina Prince-Bythewood. Reprising their roles from the first film are Academy Award winner Charlize Theron as Andy, KiKi Layne as Nile, Marwan Kenzari as Joe, Luca Marinelli as Nicky, Matthias Schoenaerts as Booker, Veronica Van as Quynh, and Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor as James. The sequel also sees Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman (Kill Bill) and Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) join the cast.

The Old Guard 2

Release Date: July 2, 2025
Runtime: 104 minutes
Director: Victoria Mahoney
Writers: Greg Rucka

‘A Star Is Born’

Available on: Tuesday, July 8

Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper‘s (American Sniper) Oscar-winning directorial debut is coming to Netflix this July.

Cooper’s A Star Is Born is the third remake of the classic 1937 romantic drama, and follows country-rock star Jackson Maine, who is battling an addiction to both alcohol and drugs. While drunkenly attending a drag show, Jackson meets 31-year-old waitress and aspiring singer-songwriter Ally, and becomes enchanted by her talent. At a concert, Jackson invites Ally onto the stage with him, leading her to become a music superstar. The two fall in love, but as Ally’s career takes off, Jackson’s worsening addiction causes his career to slowly fade away.

Cooper stars in the film alongside Academy Award winner and Grammy-winning music icon Lady Gaga (in her first starring role in a movie). The film also stars Academy Award nominee Sam Elliott (Tombstone), Andrew Dice Clay (The Adventures of Ford Fairlane), Dave Chappelle (Chappelle’s Show), and Anthony Ramos (Hamilton).

‘Brick’

Available on: Thursday, July 10

Break-ups suck. There’s no other way around it. But things could be much worse, and that’s what one couple learns in the new thriller Brick.

Tim and Olivia have just called it quits on their relationship, but right as they are about to leave their apartment, they discover that the building is completely covered by mysterious black bricks that are seemingly unbreakable. The two now must work alongside their neighbors to find a way to escape before they all die inside the building.

Philip Koch (Picco) directs the film, which stars Matthias Schweighöfer (Oppenheimer), Ruby O. Fee (Army of Thieves), Frederick Lau (The Wave), Salber Lee Williams, Axel Werner, Sira-Anna Faal (Druck), Murathan Muslu (Skylines), and Alexander Beyer (The Little Drummer Girl).

Brick

Release Date: July 10, 2025
Runtime: 99 minutes
Director: Philip Koch
Writers: Philip Koch
Producers: Max Wiedemann, Quirin Berg, Katrin Goetter

Matthias Schweighöfer
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‘Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Destination Wedding’

Available on: Friday, July 11

Tyler Perry as Madea with her friends and family in Madea's Destination Wedding. — Image via Netflix

Hellur again. Tyler Perry is donning the wig and dress as Madea once more in Madea’s Destination Wedding.

The eleventh Madea movie (as well as the second to premiere on Netflix after A Madea Homecoming) will find her granddaughter Tiffany shocking the family with the news of her engagement and that she’ll be having a destination wedding in the Bahamas. However, both Madea and her son Joe seem very suspicious of the occasion and aren’t quite ready to pack their bags for the tropical wedding.

Tyler Perry once again directs, writes, produces, and stars, alongside a cast that also includes Cassi Davis (Tyler Perry’s House of Payne), David Mann (Meet the Browns), Tamela Mann (Tyler Perry’s Assisted Living), Taja V. Simpson (Tyler Perry’s The Oval), Diamond White (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur), Jermaine Harris (Saturdays), and Xavier Smalls (Beauty in Black).

‘Jaws’

Available on: Tuesday, July 15

After celebrating its 50th anniversary earlier this summer, Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg‘s Oscar-winning masterpiece Jaws is coming to Netflix.

Often believed to be the first true summer blockbuster, Jaws is set on the New England coastal town of Amity Island, right before the Fourth of July weekend. Police Chief Martin Brody learns of a killer great white shark on the loose that’s killing beachgoers. But the town’s greedy mayor, Larry Vaughn, doesn’t care, not wanting to interfere with the holiday weekend and interrupt business. When a young boy is killed, Brody teams up with marine biologist Matt Hooper and local shark hunter and World War II vet Quint to set sail and defeat the killer shark once and for all.

Jaws stars Academy Award nominee Roy Scheider (All That Jazz), Academy Award nominee Robert Shaw (A Man for All Seasons), Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl), Lorraine Gray (1941), and Murray Hamilton (The Graduate).

‘Happy Gilmore 2’

Available on: Friday, July 25

Nearly 30 years after the release of Happy Gilmore, Adam Sandler is finally reprising his iconic role as the hot-tempered hockey player turned pro golfer in Happy Gilmore 2.

After winning his first Tour Championship, Happy has retired from golf, and is happily married to Virginia Vent and the father of four grown boys, Bobby, Gordie, Wayne, and Terry, and one daughter, Vienna. With the family now going through some financial woes, Happy realizes that he is unable to pay for Vienna’s ballet school, leading him to step foot back onto the green and golf once more. The only issue is, Happy has lost his mojo, and his rival Shooter McGavin has also entered the tournament, hoping to finally defeat Happy.

Kyle Newacheck (Murder Mystery) directs the sequel, which sees the return of Sandler as Happy Gilmore, Julie Bowen as Virginia Vent, Christopher McDonald as Shooter McGavin, Ben Stiller as Hal L., Dennis Dugan as Doug Thompson, Kevin Nealon as Gary Potter, Lee Trevino, and Verne Lundquist. But the cast doesn’t stop there, as the film features a stacked ensemble that includes Grammy-winning music superstar Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio aka Bad Bunny, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, Conor Sherry (Snack Shack), Ethan Cutkosky (Shameless), one-time AEW World Champion Maxwell Jacob Friedman, Philip Fine Schneider, Blake Clark (The Waterboy), Sunny and Sadie Sandler (You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah), Jackie Sandler (The Wrong Missy), Eric André (The Eric Andre Show), Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Martin Herlihy (Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain), Tim Herlihy (The Wedding Singer), Happy Madison co-founder Jack Giarraputo, Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems), John Farley (Little Nicky), Kym Whitley (Young & Hungry), Lavell Crawford (Breaking Bad), Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings, rapper Cam’ron, Grammy-winning rapper and Academy Award winner Eminem, Grammy-nominated rapper Post Malone, Marcello Hernandez (Saturday Night Live), sportscaster Dan Patrick, Oliver Hudson (The Cleaning Lady), former NFL running back Reggie Bush, Los Angeles Sparks player Kelsey Plum, WWE divas Becky Lynch and Nikki Garcia, Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense), Grammy-winning rapper Scott Mescudi, Nick Swardson (Reno 911!), and Jim Downey (Saturday Night Live).

Alongside that stacked cast, real-life professional golfers Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Will Zalatoris, Paige Spiranac, John Daly, Nelly Korda, Nancy Lopez, and Jack Nicklaus are all set to make appearances.