Will Ferrell’s new series The Hawk has been topping the Netflix charts for weeks, and while it’s not his first streaming show, it is the first one that feels of a piece with his film and sketch comedy work of the past. It’s got frequent co-stars like Molly Shannon and Chris Parnell, newer additions to the Ferrell circle like Fortune Feimster and Jimmy Tatro, and, of course, it has Ferrell playing a sport, which was a big part of his peak years as a movie star. (From 2005 through 2008, he starred in a sports-centric comedy every year for four years in a row!)

If The Hawk has you hankering for Ferrell in a more manageable timeslot than 10 half-hour episodes, plenty of his classics are currently streaming on subscription services — though sadly, Talladega Nights (fresh off a recent 20th anniversary theatrical re-release) and Step Brothers (hopefully prepping an IMAX rerelease for its own 20th birthday in 2028) aren’t on any of the major services. (Though spiritually, it makes sense that they’d be available through the cable-like YouTubeTV; these are cable rewatch classics to be sure.) Anyway, you’ve probably seen Talladega and Step Brothers a bunch of times anyway; they’re two of Ferrell’s biggest hits.

Here are a lucky seven additional Ferrell movies you can stream right now, representing some of his best.

• This is probably a hot take, but Ferrell’s much-maligned movie reboot of the witchy 1960s sitcom is actually pretty good. It arrived during a major comedown year for the star, when three different Ferrell movies failed to perform up to the standards established by his previous hits Old School, Elf, and Anchorman. Of his three ’05 films, the kids-soccer movie Kicking and Screaming is probably the best-liked simply for being harmless, family-friendly entertainment that places Ferrell in what would become a familiar sports-movie context. By contrast, Bewitched is far weirder territory, casting him as an arrogant movie star (OK, that part sort of tracks) and romantic lead (huh?) opposite Nicole Kidman (wha?), in a film directed by Nora Ephron (?!). But honestly, Kidman (as a real witch playing a fictional witch in a show-within-a-movie reboot of Bewitched) is so charming, and Ferrell so charmingly silly, that the movie’s self-referential screwball sensibility sometimes actually takes off. It’s certainly not top-tier Ferrell, but it’s worth another look for any fans who skipped it. And for another underrated Ferrell flop, Land of the Lost is streaming with ads on YouTube!

  StreaM Bewitched On PLutoTV

• Ferrell’s previous Netflix hit applies his unlikely-athlete formula to a different sort of competition: the annual Eurovision pageant of cheesy pop songs. Ferrell plays half of an Icelandic pop duo — with Rachel McAdams as his partner — who winds up in the Eurovision finals, fulfilling a lifelong dream through an accident of fate. The movie is a bit overlong, but that may only be because Ferrell (who also co-wrote) seems genuinely quite enamored the subject and setting, which goes a long way to selling the familiar underdog-comedy elements. More delightful are the odd flights of whimsy and absurdity that are a comfortable fit for the goofiness of Eurovision, which this movie helped introduce to an American audience. Though Ferrell also co-starred in a then-high-profile film version of Broadway’s The Producers, Eurovision is actually his best musical.

  Stream Eurovision on Netflix

• Of Ferrell’s four big sports movies, Blades of Glory is the closest equivalent to a straight-down-the-middle pitch. (Talladega Nights, a more genuinely satirical enterprise, is a craftier curveball). Of course, it’s not a baseball movie; that’s one sport Ferrell hasn’t yet tackled on screen yet. He excels when he finds something absurd about the sport in question, whether it’s the competitiveness of youth soccer, the naked commercialism of NASCAR, or the goofy costumes of ice skating. The latter provides some admittedly low-hanging fruit for Blades of Glory, which is more of a Ferrell-for-hire job than many of his other comedies from this period. He’s paired with Jon Heder as two temperamentally opposite figure skaters who find a way around a ban from an Olympics-style event by performing as a team; the movie’s substantial cast of ringers include Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Jenna Fischer, and William Fichtner, ensuring that what should be a dumb formula comedy is, well, that, but also a pretty funny one.

• Before Ferrell broke out as a movie star with 2003’s double feature of Old School and Elf, he had seven seasons on Saturday Night Live, during which he spent much of his off-season time filming supporting roles in various comedies, seemingly at the request of almost anyone. (The less said about his first leading role in A Night at the Roxbury, the better.) In 2001, for example, he appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and, even better, Ben Stiller’s fashion-industry spoof Zoolander, as Mugatu, the villain of the piece and issuer of several endlessly quoted lines (Have you ever said “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills”? Yeah, that’s a Ferrell coinage, or at very least, his delivery sold it to millions of imitators). It’s not a pure Ferrell vehicle, but it’s a major feather in his comedy-career cap, and he makes the most of his screen time.

  Stream Zoolander on ParAMOUNT+

• Perhaps the most underrated of Ferrell’s five movies with Adam McKay, simply by virtue of it not being as quoted as often as Anchorman or Step Brothers, is The Other Guys, Ferrell’s first and best team-up with Mark Wahlberg. (Their Daddy’s Home comedies are eminently skippable.) Wahlberg gives his Boogie Nights co-star John C. Reilly a run for his money as funniest Ferrell buddy, as a hotheaded but not particularly gifted cop paired with a paperwork-loving milquetoast, representing a neat change of pace from Ferrell’s usual bluster. McKay, who would go on to make more overtly political movies like Vice, expertly satirizes the misallocation of law-enforcement resources, oft-unprosecuted financial crimes, and the hubris of action movies, all while maintaining his and Ferrell’s shared sense of the absurd. Honestly, this is better than anything that ever got him Oscar attention.

  Stream The Other Guys on Netflix

• It’s hard to argue with one of Ferrell’s signature roles: Ron Burgundy, the bloviating, empty-headed San Diego news anchor in the ’70s (and, in the sequel, ’80s) whose worldview is challenged by things like treating women equally and paying attention to his child. Ferrell’s first and (hopefully just for now?) last movies with McKay go all-in on their improv-heavy brand of lunacy. Anchorman 2’s rep falls understandably short of its predecessor, but it has moments of pure inspiration, all the more impressive because some audiences were obviously alienated by the lengthy sequence where Burgundy goes blind, moves to a lighthouse, and rehabilitates a baby shark. Ferrell obviously loves the sports-movie framework, but he really ups his game when he’s allowed to go way off reservation.

  Stream Anchorman on Paramount+

Jesse Hassenger (@rockmarooned) is a writer living in Brooklyn. He’s a regular contributor to The A.V. Club, Polygon, and The Week, among others. He podcasts at www.sportsalcohol.com, too.