Stuck for a movie to watch on a Friday night?  Sick of those '1000 films to watch before you die' type lists? We're going to showcase some of the true 'classics' over the coming few months -- not those movies rated by critics as monumental, but those on the offical record lists as the most watched materpieces of all time ... and true classics. Well, most of them(!)

Here we go: The Top 20 movies of all time according to the number of tickets sold (stats from Hollywood Reporter) rather than box office takings (where figures are not a true reflection considering ticket prices overs the years, or through promotions, 3D ticket prices and so on)

 
1. Gone With the Wind - 202,044,600

2. Star Wars -178,119,600

3. The Sound of Music -142,415,400

4. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial -141,854,300

5. The Ten Commandments - 131,000,000

6. Titanic - 128,345,900

7. Jaws - 128,078,800

8. Doctor Zhivago  -124,135,500

9. The Exorcist - 110,568,700

10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 109,000,000

11. 101 Dalmatians - 99,917,300

12. The Empire Strikes Back - 98,180,600

13. Ben-Hur - 98,000,000

14. Return of the Jedi -94,059,400

15. The Sting - 89,142,900

16. Raiders of the Lost Ark - 88,141,900

17. Jurassic Park - 86,205,800

18. The Graduate - 85,571,400

19. Star Wars: Episode I - 84,825,800

20. Fantasia - 83,043,500