Since Jaws forever changed Hollywood, moviemakers have relied upon the annual blockbuster season to get bums on seats.

And like all genres there’s the good, the bad and the ugly - for every truly amazing blockbuster there’s a string of cash-ins, failed franchises and underwhelming reboots.

But we’re not interested in them, we’re here for the best. And now we all have a lot more time to spend on our hands at home, there's no better time to watch these big-budget blockbusters on the small screen.

Voila, the definitive 30 best blockbusters of all time...

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30. Gravity (2013)

Winner of the Best Director Oscar for Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity is an eerie, dazzling, disorienting, enormous film, at once beautiful and terrifying in its depiction of the vastness of space. A combination of spectacular visual effects and edge-of-the-seat human drama, it opens with a continuous 17-minute shot that is about as impressive as anything ever committed to film.

29. Frozen (2013)

Yes, we never want to hear Let It Snow ever again either but this was a huge smash for Disney and finally offered some balance when it came to empowerment for its female protagonists. The sequel may have actually made more money, but the true magic is in the original movie.

28. Fast & Furious 5 (2011)

There’s nothing at all wrong with the four films that precede this one, but the fifth Fast & Furious chapter marks the point where it goes from a series of films about street racing to something else entirely. And it’s mainly due to the arrival of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson - even bigger and balder than Vin Diesel, and a sign that the franchise was leaving any semblance of realism behind and instead going for huge, spectacular, incredibly entertaining insanity.

27. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

One of the most spectacularly over-the-top movies ever made, Fury Road is essentially a movie-long chase, but the greatest chase conceived by humankind, involving weird, wonderful, monstrous vehicles and SO MUCH FIRE. Despite the title of the movie, it entirely belongs to Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa, an instant icon and super, super badass. Every frame of this movie could hang on an art gallery wall.

26. Face/Off (1997)

Face/Off could well be the best action film of all time. Some claim, but consider this: it’s directed by John Woo, then at the height of his powers, and transplanting the stunning sequences he had pioneered on his classic Hong Kong movies to Hollywood; and it stars Nicolas Cage and a reborn John Travolta as duelling adversaries who take on each other’s physical appearance in an attempt to bring the other one down. Not necessarily obvious blockbuster fodder, but Face/Off was a monster hit in 1997.

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