Greatest Film Franchises and Series of All-Time


Greatest Film Franchises of All-Time


Movie Title Screens

L - M


Greatest Film Series Franchises - Sections
Major Film Franchises - Box-Office: Introduction | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Film Franchises - Title Screens: Intro | A | B | C | D | E-F | G-H | I-J-K | L-M | N-O | P-Q | R | S | T | U-V | W-X-Y-Z


Lady and the Tramp

Lady and the Tramp (1955)

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001) (video)

Lady and the Tramp (2019)

Lady Chatterley

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955, Fr.) (aka L'Amant de Lady Chatterley)

Young Lady Chatterley (1977)

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)

Young Lady Chatterley II (1985)

Lady Chatterley (1992/93, UK) (TV)

Lady Chatterley (2006, Fr.)

Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015, UK) (TV)

Lake Placid

Lake Placid (1999)

Lake Placid 2 (2007)

Lake Placid 3 (2010)

Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (2012) (aka Lake Placid 4)

Lake Placid vs Anaconda (2015) (TV)

Land Before Time

The Land Before Time (1988)

The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994)

The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)

The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996)



The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)



The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)



The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000)



The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)



The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002)



The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (2003)



The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005)



The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006)



The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007)

'Land of Opportunities' Trilogy (Lars von Trier)

Dogville (2003, Denm.)

Manderlay (2005, Denm.)

Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) (aka Tomb Raider II)

Tomb Raider (2018)

Lassie

Lassie Come Home (1943)

Son of Lassie (1945)

Courage of Lassie (1946)

Hills of Home (1948)

Challenge to Lassie (1949)

The Sun Comes Up (1949)

The Painted Hills (1951)

Lassie's Great Adventure (1963)

The Magic of Lassie (1978)

Lassie (1994)

Lassie (2005, UK)

Last Exorcism

The Last Exorcism (2010)

The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)

Last House on the Left

The Last House on the Left (1972)

The Last House on the Left (2009)

Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show (1971)

Texasville (1990)

Laurel and Hardy (Feature Films)

Pardon Us (1931)

Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)

The Devil's Brother (1933)

Sons of the Desert (1933)

Hollywood Party (1934)

Babes in Toyland (1934) (aka March of the Wooden Soldiers)

Bonnie Scotland (1935)

The Bohemian Girl (1936)

Our Relations (1936)

Way Out West (1937)

Pick a Star (1937)

Swiss Miss (1938)

Block-Heads (1938)

The Flying Deuces (1939)

A Chump at Oxford (1940)

Saps at Sea (1940)

Great Guns (1941)

A-Haunting We Will Go (1941)

Air Raid Wardens (1943)

Jitterbugs (1943)

The Dancing Masters (1943)

Nothing but Trouble (1943)

The Big Noise (1944)

The Bullfighters (1945)

Atoll K (1951, Fr./It.) (aka Robinson Crusoeland, Utopia)

Lawnmower Man

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War (1996) (aka LM2: Beyond Cyberspace)

Le Carre, John (Adaptations)

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965, UK)

The Deadly Affair (1966, UK)

The Looking Glass War (1969, UK)

The Little Drummer Girl (1984)

The Russia House (1990)

The Tailor of Panama (2001, US/Irel.)

The Constant Gardener (2005, UK)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011, UK)

A Most Wanted Man (2014, UK/US/Germ.)

Our Kind of Traitor (2016, UK/Fr.)

Left Behind

Left Behind: The Movie (2000) (video)

Left Behind: Tribulation Force (2002) (aka Left Behind II)

Left Behind: World at War (2005) (aka Left Behind III)
 

Legally Blonde

Legally Blonde (2001)

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

Legally Blondes (2009) (video)

LEGO

The LEGO Movie (2014)

The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)

The LEGO Ninjago Movie (2017)

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
 

Leprechaun

Leprechaun (1993)

Leprechaun 2 (1994)

Leprechaun 3 (1995)

Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997)

Leprechaun In the Hood (2000)

Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha' Hood (2003)

Leprechaun: Origins (2014)

Les Boys

Les Boys (1997, Can.)

Les Boys II (1998, Can.)

Les Boys III (2001, Can.)

Les Boys IV (2005, Can.)

When We Were Boys (2013, Can.) (aka Il était Une Fois Les Boys)

Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon (1987)

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
 

Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

Stitch! The Movie (2003)

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)

Leroy & Stitch (2006)
 

Lion King

The Lion King (1994)

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998)

The Lion King 1 1/2 (2004) (aka The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata)

The Lion King (2019)

Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid (1989)

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)
 

Little Tough Guys (1938-1943)

Little Tough Guy (1938)
Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)

Newsboys Home (1939)

Code of the Streets (1939)

Call a Messenger (1939)

You're Not So Tough (1940)

Give Us Wings (1940)

Hit the Road (1941)

Mob Town (1941)
Mug Town (1942)

Tough As They Come (1942)

Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
Little Tough Guys (Serials)

Junior G-Men (1940) (serial)

Sea Raiders (1941) (serial)

Junior G-Men of the Air (1942) (serial)

'Living Dead' (George Romero)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Dawn of the Dead (1978, It./US)

Day of the Dead (1985)

Land of the Dead (2005)

Diary of the Dead (2007)

Survival of the Dead (2009)

'Living Dead' (Remakes)

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Day of the Dead (2008)

Day of The Dead: Bloodline (2018)

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger (1938) (serial)

The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939) (serial)

Hi-Yo Silver (1940) (the feature length re-edited version of 1938 serial)

The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1952) (Compilation film of first three episodes of TV series, filmed in 1949)

Enter the Lone Ranger (Episode One of The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1952))

The Lone Ranger (1956)

The Lone Ranger and The Lost City of Gold (1958)

The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
The Lone Ranger (Recent)

The Lone Ranger (2013)

Lone Wolf (Warren William)

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)

The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)

Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941)

Counter-Espionage (1942) (aka The Lone Wolf in Scotland Yard)

One Dangerous Night (1943)

Passport to Suez (1943)

Look Who's Talking

Look Who's Talking (1989)

Look Who's Talking Too (1990)

Look Who's Talking Now (1993)

The Lord of the Rings (Animated)

The Lord of the Rings (1978) (animated)

The Return of the King (1980) (aka The Return of the King: A Story of the Hobbits) (animated) (TV)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy



The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)



The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)



The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
   

Jeanette MacDonald (with Maurice Chevalier)

The Love Parade (1929)

Love Me Tonight (1932)

One Hour With You (1932)

The Merry Widow (1934)
Jeanette MacDonald (with Nelson Eddy)

Naughty Marietta (1935)

Rose-Marie (1936)

Maytime (1937)

The Girl of the Golden West (1938)

Sweethearts (1938)

New Moon (1940)

Bitter Sweet (1940)

I Married an Angel (1942)

Machete

Machete (2010)

Machete Kills (2013)

Mad Max

Mad Max (1979, Australia)


Mad Max 2 (1981, Aust.) (aka The Road Warrior (1982))

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Madagascar

Madagascar (2005)

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

Madea (Tyler Perry)

Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

Madea Goes to Jail (2009)

I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2009)

Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)

Madea's Witness Protection (2012)

A Madea Christmas (2013)

Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016)

Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017)

A Madea Family Funeral (2019)

Magic Mike

Magic Mike (2012)

Magic Mike XXL (2015)

Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Return of the Seven (1966) (aka Return of the Magnificent Seven)

Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)

The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)

Maisie (Ann Sothern, 1939-1947)

Maisie (1939)

Congo Maisie (1940)

Gold Rush Maisie (1940)

Maisie Was A Lady (1941)

Ringside Maisie (1941)

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)

Swing Shift Maisie (1943)

Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)

Up Goes Maisie (1946)

Undercover Maisie (1947)

Major League

Major League (1989)

Major League II (1994)

Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)

Man and a Woman (Un Homme et Un Femme)

A Man and a Woman (1966, Fr.) (aka Un Homme et une Femme)

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986, Fr.) (aka Un Homme et une Femme, 20 Ans Déjà)

Man Called Horse

A Man Called Horse (1970)

The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983)

Man From Snowy River

The Man From Snowy River (1982)

Return to Snowy River (1988, Australia) (aka The Man From Snowy River II)

Man With No Name (aka Dollars Trilogy)


Fistful of Dollars (1964, It.) (aka Per un Pugno di Dollari)


For a Few Dollars More (1965, It.) (aka Per Qualche Dollaro in Più)


The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, It./Sp.) (aka Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo)

Maniac Cop

Maniac Cop (1988)

Maniac Cop 2 (1990)

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993)

Mannequin

Mannequin (1987)

Mannequin: On the Move (1991)

The Marine

The Marine (2006)

The Marine II (2009)

The Marine 3: Homefront (2013)

The Marine 4: Moving Target (2015)

The Marine 5: Battleground (2017)

Marlowe, Philip

Murder, My Sweet (1944)

The Big Sleep (1946)

Lady in the Lake (1947)

The Brasher Doubloon (1947)

Marlowe (1969)

The Long Goodbye (1973)

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

The Big Sleep (1978, UK)

Poodle Springs (1998) (TV)

Marshall, Gary (Holiday-Themed Series)

Valentine's Day (2010)

New Year's Eve (2011)

Mother's Day (2016)

Martin & Lewis

My Friend Irma (1949)

My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)

At War With the Army (1950)

That's My Boy (1951)

Sailor Beware (1952)

Jumping Jacks (1952)

Road to Bali (1952)

The Stooge (1952)

Scared Stiff (1953)

The Caddy (1953)

Money From Home (1953)

Living It Up (1954)

3 Ring Circus (1954)

You're Never Too Young (1955)

Artists and Models (1955)

Pardners (1956)

Hollywood or Bust (1956)

Marvel's Cinematic Universe

Iron Man (2008)

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Thor (2011)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Marvel's The Avengers (2012)

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Thor: The Dark World (2013)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Ant-Man (2015)

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Doctor Strange (2016)

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Black Panther (2018)

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

Captain Marvel (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Marx Brothers

The Cocoanuts (1929)

Animal Crackers (1930)

Monkey Business (1931)

Horse Feathers (1932)

Duck Soup (1933)

A Night At The Opera (1935)

A Day At the Races (1937)

Room Service (1938)

At The Circus (1939)

Go West (1940)

The Big Store (1941)

A Night in Casablanca (1946)

Love Happy (1949)

Mask

The Mask (1994)

Son of the Mask (2005)

The Matrix

The Matrix (1999)

 
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)


The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Matt Helm

The Silencers (1966)

Murderers' Row (1966)

The Ambushers (1967)

The Wrecking Crew (1968)

Max

Max (2015)

Max 2: White House Hero (2017)

Maze Runner

The Maze Runner (2014)

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

Meatballs

Meatballs (1979)

Meatballs Part II (1984)

Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)

Meatballs 4: To the Rescue (1992)

Mechanic

The Mechanic (1972)

The Mechanic (2011)

Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

Meet the Parents (aka Fockers)

Meet the Parents (2000)

Meet the Fockers (2004)

Little Fockers (2010)

Men in Black

Men in Black (1997)

Men in Black II (2002)

Men in Black 3 (2012)

Men in Black International (2019)


Mexico Trilogy (Mariachi or Desperado)

El Mariachi (1992)

Desperado (1995)

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)


Meyer, Russ (Feature Films)

The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959)

Eve and the Handyman (1961)

Wild Girls of the Naked West (1962)

Europe in the Raw (1963)

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1964)

Lorna (1964)

Mudhoney (1965) (aka Mudhoney...Leaves a Taste of Evil!)

MotorPsycho (1965)

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Mondo Topless (1966)

Common-Law Cabin (1967)

Good Morning and Goodbye! (1967)

Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (1968)

VIXEN! (1968)

Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

The Seven Minutes (1971)

Black Snake (1973)

SuperVIXENS (1975)

Up! (1976)

Beneath the Valley of the UltraVIXENS (1979)

Pandora Peaks (2001)

Middle Earth

The Hobbit (1966) (animated)
(short)

The Hobbit (1977) (animated) (TV)

The Lord of the Rings (1978) (animated)

The Return of the King (1980) (aka The Return of the King: A Story of the Hobbits) (animated) (TV)



The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)



The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)



The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)



The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)



The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)



The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Mighty Ducks

The Mighty Ducks (1992)

D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)

D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)

D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)


Mihmiverse (Films of Auteur Christopher R. Mihm) (Trailer Previews)

The Monster of Phantom Lake (2006)

It Came from Another World! (2007)

Cave Women on Mars (2008)

Terror from Beneath the Earth (2009)

Destination: Outer Space (2010)

Attack of the Moon Zombies (2011)

House of Ghosts (2012)

The Giant Spider (2013)

The Late Night Double Feature (2014)

Danny Johnson Saves the World (2015)

Weresquito Nazi Hunter (2016)

Demon with the Atomic Brain (2017)

Guns of the Apocalypse (2018)

Queen of Snakes (2019)

'Millennium' Trilogy (Swedish)

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Swe.) (aka Män Som Hatar Kvinnor)

The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009, Swe.) (aka Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009, Swe.) (aka Luftslottet Som Sprängdes)

Other (US)

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Mind's Eye

The Mind's Eye (1990)

Beyond the Mind's Eye (1992)

The Gate to the Mind's Eye (1994)

Odyssey Into The Mind's Eye (1996)


Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror (1990)

Raven Dance (1994) (aka Mirror Mirror 2)



Mirror, Mirror III: The Voyeur (1995)

Mirror, Mirror 4: Reflection(s) (2000)


Miss Congeniality

Miss Congeniality (2000)

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005)



Miss Marple (Agatha Christie)

Murder She Said (1961, UK)

(Agatha Christie's) Murder at the Gallop (1963, UK)

Murder Most Foul (1964, UK)

Murder Ahoy (1964, UK)

(Agatha Christie's) The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

A Caribbean Mystery (1983) (TV)

Murder With Mirrors (1985) (TV)

Missing in Action

Missing in Action (1984)

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)


Mission Impossible

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Mission: Impossible III (2006)


Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

Molly Hartley

The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)

The Exorcism of Molly Hartley (2015)

Mondo (Shockumentaries) - Examples

Mondo Cane (1962, It.)

Mondo Cane 2 (1963, It.) (aka Mondo Pazzo)

Women of the World (1963) (aka La Donna nel Mondo)

Kwaheri: Vanishing Africa (1964)
Il Mondo di Notte Numero 3 (1963/65) (aka Ecco)

Africa Addio (1966) (aka Africa: Blood and Guts)

Sweden: Heaven and Hell (aka Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso) (1968)

Shocking Asia (1974)

Savage Man Savage Beast (1975) (aka Ultime Grida Dalla Savana)

This Violent World (1976) (aka Savana Violenta)

Faces of Death (1978)

Faces of Death II (1981)

Faces of Death III (1985)

Mondo Cane Oggi (1985) (aka A Dog's World Today)

Mondo Cane 2000: L'Incredibile (1988) (aka A Dog's World 2000: The Incredible)

Monsieur Hulot

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953, Fr.) (aka Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot)

Mon Oncle (1958, Fr.) (aka My Uncle)

Playtime (1967, Fr.)

Trafic (1971, Fr.)

Monsters

Monsters (2010, UK)

Monsters: Dark Continent (2014, UK) (aka Monsters 2)

MonsterVerse (The Godzilla and King Kong Film Series
by Legendary Pictures and Toho from 2014 - Present) - see also Godzilla and King Kong
Godzilla Film Series

Godzilla (2014)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
King Kong Film Series

Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Crossovers
Godzilla vs. Kong (2020)

Monty Python



(Monty Python Presents) And Now for Something Completely Different (1971, UK)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, UK)



Life of Brian (1979, UK)

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

The Meaning of Life (1983)

Morecambe and Wise



The Intelligence Men (1965, UK) (aka M.I.5 Plus 2 Equals 0)

That Riviera Touch (1966, UK)

The Magnificent Two (1967, UK)

Night Train to Murder (1983, UK) (TV)

Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat (1995)


Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

Mr. Magoo (aka Mister Magoo)

1001 Arabian Nights (1959)

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) (TV)

Uncle Sam Magoo (1970) (TV)

Mr. Magoo (1997)

Kung-Fu Magoo (2010, Mex./US) (animated)

Mr. Moto

Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)

Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)

Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)

Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)

Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)

Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

The Return of Mr. Moto (1965, UK)

Mummy (Universal)

The Mummy (1932)

The Mummy's Hand (1940)

The Mummy's Tomb (1942)

The Mummy's Ghost (1944)

The Mummy's Curse (1944)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

Mummy (Hammer Studios)

The Mummy (1959, UK)

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964, UK)

The Mummy's Shroud (1967, UK)

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971, UK)

Mummy (Remake and Sequels) (see also Scorpion King)

The Mummy (1999)

The Mummy Returns (2001)

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

The Mummy (2017)

Munsters

Munster, Go Home! (1966)

The Mini-Munsters (1973) (animated) (TV)

The Munsters' Revenge (1981) (TV)

Here Come the Munsters (1995) (TV)

The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas (1996)

The Muppets

The Muppet Movie (1979)

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

Muppet Treasure Island (1996)

Muppets from Space (1999)

The Muppets (2011)

Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

Murder, She Wrote



Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997) (TV)



Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000) (TV)



Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001) (TV)



Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003) (TV)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

My Bloody Valentine (3D) (2009)

My Girl

My Girl (1991)

My Girl 2 (1994)

My Sassy Girl

My Sassy Girl (2001, S.Kor.)

My Sassy Girl (2008)


Greatest Film Series Franchises - Sections
Major Film Franchises - Box-Office: Introduction | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Film Franchises - Title Screens: Intro | A | B | C | D | E-F | G-H | I-J-K | L-M | N-O | P-Q | R | S | T | U-V | W-X-Y-Z



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