We all like to sit back and watch a great movie, but can you remember them all and name the 10 most watched movies on the planet? During this last century thousands of movies have been produced, but only a select few have become the most watched movies on the planet. Here you will discover some really great examples of cinema-graphic work by highly talented producers and directors.

This is a list of the 10 most watched movies on the planet. The ranking of each movie in the list is determined by its recorded box office sales figures plus its total DVD sales figures.

AVATAR

From a conceptual vision after the success of Titanic, James Cameron has spent the last decade in the design, development and production of both this movie and the technology that was needed to be able to film it. This is the first movie of its kind that has real actors set in a three dimensional virtual world. Stunning visual effects and a star studded cast ensure that the movie will become a classic sci-fi epic. Starring:       Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana

 Director:       James Cameron

 TITANIC

This is a fictional drama about the romantic tale of a rich girl and a poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' Titanic liner.

Titanic was one of the most expensive movies ever made, but it turned out to be a huge critical and commercial success, winning 11 Academy Awards as well as being the highest grossing movie of all time, at just over $1.8 billion worldwide. One of the famous taglines in the movie is; a woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

Starring:       Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio

Director:       James Cameron

 GONE WITH THE WIND

Gone With The Wind, a romantic drama by Margaret Mitchell. It is set in Georgia, Atlanta during the American Civil War and follows the life of Scarlett O’Hara, the daughter of an Irish immigrant plantation owner.

The novel won the coveted Pulitzer Prize and was then adapted into this movie of the same name which won an Academy Award.

Starring:       Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable

Producer:     David Selznick

  E.T - THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL

E.T - The Extra-Terrestrial is the immensely popular magical fantasy movie. It became one of the box-office champion movies of all time. Steven Spielberg's sci-fi masterpiece about the love between a young suburban boy and a lost, homesick visitor from another planet who is mistakenly left stranded on Earth – millions of light years from home.

Starring:       Drew Barrymore and Henry Thomas

Director:       Steven Spielberg

STAR WARS

If you have never heard of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, Hans Solo, Darth Vader or many of the other characters in these movies, then you must have been living on another planet. The movie series started with The Phantom Menace was followed by Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

Starring:       Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill

Director:       George Lucas

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

The Ten Commandments was Cecil B. De Mille's most spectacular epic and last movie. It was a remake of De Mille's own 1923 silent film of the same name. And it became the highest earning live action movie of the 1950s. It is a blockbuster movie that has a melodramatic style, with great actors.

The movie gives an epic account of the liberation of the Hebrew people from Egyptian bondage. Lead by Egyptian prince Moses, who was born a Hebrew slave. He was raised as an Egyptian Pharaoh's adopted son and helps in the construction of the giant pyramids.

Starring:       Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner

Director:       Cecil B DeMille

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

While he is studying to be a doctor in Moscow, Yuri Zhivago encounters a chance meeting with the most beautiful Lara, while they are travelling on a train. Their relationship turns out to be a fateful romance that spans the early years of the Russian Revolution, during which both their lives are just totally turned upside down.

Doctor Zhivago was a really huge box office hit and managed to win five Academy Awards. This movie left an indelible mark on popular culture and even to this day remains an extremely popular movie.

Starring:       Julie Christie and Omar Sharif

Director:       David Lean

THE EXORCIST

The Exorcist is the sensational horror story that shocked everybody. It is about devil possession and the subsequent exorcism of the demonic spirits from a young, innocent girl. The Exorcist was notable for being one of the biggest box office successes, one of the first 'blockbusters' in movie history and one of the biggest money makers of its time. It is one of the few horror movies that were nominated for Best Picture. But, it was also one of the most opposed movies for its controversial content.

Starring:       Linda Blair and Jason Miller

Producer:     William Peter Blatty

THE LORD OF THE RINGS

The Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy story written by J. R. R. Tolkien. The novel began as a sequel to his earlier, much less complex children’s fantasy story, The Hobbit, but evolved into a much larger work.

The Lord of the Rings has been made into a movie trilogy that consists of three live action fantasy epic movies; The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

Starring:       Elijah Wood and Sir Ian McKellen

Director:       Peter Jackson

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones. Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. The Ark is widely believed to carry an incredibly powerful energy that must not fall into Nazi hands. Indiana is immediately sent overseas; he stops in Nepal to pick up an old girlfriend and then meets up with his friend Sallah in Cairo. But he soon discovers that there are many dangerous situations along the way, even inside the Ark's resting place.

Starring:       Harrison Ford and Karen Allen

Director:       Steven Spielberg