Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1958 A former detective with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman apparently possessed by the past in Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless thriller about obsession. “The accession of Vertigo to the top spot in this poll is hardly in the nature of a coup d’état. Tying for 11th place in 1972, Hitchcock’s masterpiece steadily inched up the poll over the next three decades, and by 2002 was clearly the heir apparent to
the long-ruling Citizen Kane. Still, even ardent Wellesians should feel gratified at the modest revolution – if only for the proof that film canons (and the versions of history they legitimate) are not completely fossilised.
2. Citizen KaneOrson Welles, USA 1941 Citizen Kane (1941)Given extraordinary freedom by Hollywood studio RKO for his debut film, boy wonder Welles created a modernist masterpiece that is regularly voted the best film ever made.
3. Tokyo StoryOzu Yasujiro, Japan 1953 Tokyo Story (1953)The final part of Ozu Yasujiro’s loosely connected ‘Noriko’ trilogy is a devastating story of elderly grandparents brushed aside by their self-involved family.
4. La Règle du jeuJean Renoir, France 1939 Made on the cusp of WWII, Jean Renoir’s satire of the upper-middle classes was banned as demoralising by the French government for two decades after its release
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two HumansF.W. Murnau, USA 1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)Lured to Hollywood by producer William Fox, German Expressionist filmmaker F.W. Murnau created one of the silent cinema’s last and most luminous masterpieces.
Sign up for Sight & Sound’s Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. 6. 2001: A Space OdysseyStanley Kubrick, UK/USA 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Stanley Kubrick took science fiction cinema in a grandly intelligent new direction with this epic story of man’s quest for knowledge.
7. The SearchersJohn Ford, USA 1956 The Searchers (1956)John Ford created perhaps the greatest of all westerns with this tale of a Civil War veteran doggedly hunting the Comanche who have kidnapped his niece.
8. Man with a Movie CameraDziga Vertov, Soviet Union 1929 Man with a Movie Camera (1929)An impression of city life in the Soviet Union, The Man with a Movie Camera is the best-known film of experimental documentary pioneer Dziga Vertov.
9. The Passion of Joan of ArcCarl Dreyer, France 1927 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)Silent cinema at its most sublimely expressive, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterpiece is an austere but hugely affecting dramatisation of the trial of St Joan.
10. 8½Federico Fellini, Italy 1963 8½ (1963)Federico Fellini triumphantly conjured himself out of a bad case of creative block with this autobiographical magnum opus about a film director experiencing creative block.
11. Battleship PotemkinSergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union 1925 Battleship Potemkin (1925)A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Sergei Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content.
12. L’AtalanteJean Vigo, France 1934 L'Atalante (1934)Newly-weds begin their life together on a working barge in this luminous and poetic romance, the only feature film by director Jean Vigo.
13. BreathlessJean-Luc Godard, France 1960 Breathless (1960)Jean-Luc Godard’s precocious feature debut was this hugely influential jazzy, Noir-inflected crime drama.
14. Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola, USA 1979 Apocalypse Now (1979)Transplanting the story of Joseph Conrad’s colonial-era novel Heart of Darkness to Vietnam, Francis Ford Coppola created a visually mesmerising fantasia on the spectacle of war.
15. Late SpringOzu Yasujiro, Japan 1949 Late Spring (1949)Ozu Yasujiro’s exploration of the relationship between a widower and his unmarried adult daughter is often described as the perfect distillation of his style. Ryu Chishu and Hara Setsuko star.
16. Au hasard BalthazarRobert Bresson, France/Sweden 1966 Au hasard Balthazar (1966)Robert Bresson’s distinctive pared-down style elicits extraordinary pathos from this devastating tale of an abused donkey passing from owner to owner.
17=. Seven SamuraiKurosawa Akira, Japan 1954 Seven Samurai (1954)© Toho Co., LtdRice farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Kurosawa Akira’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since.
17=. PersonaIngmar Bergman, Sweden 1966 Persona (1966)A nurse (Bibi Andersson) and an actress who refuses to speak (Liv Ullmann) seem to fuse identities in Ingmar Bergman’s disturbing, formally experimental psychological drama.
19. MirrorAndrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union 1974 Mirror (1975)Andrei Tarkovsky drew on memories of a rural childhood before WWII for this personal, impressionistic and unconventional film poem.
20. Singin’ in the RainStanley Donen & Gene Kelly, USA 1951 Singin’ in the Rain (1952)Hollywood’s troubled transition from silent to talking pictures at the end of the 1920s provided the inspiration for perhaps the greatest of movie musicals.
21=. L’avventuraMichelangelo Antonioni, Italy 1960 L'avventura (1960)In Michelangelo Antonioni’s groundbreaking and controversial arthouse milestone, the mystery of a woman’s disappearance from a Mediterranean island is left unresolved.
21=. Le MéprisJean-Luc Godard, France/Italy 1963 Le Mépris (1963)Working with his biggest budget to date, Jean-Luc Godard created a sublime widescreen drama about marital breakdown, set during pre-production on a film shoot.
21=. The GodfatherFrancis Ford Coppola, USA 1972 The Godfather (1972)The first of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic trilogy about the Corleone crime family is the disturbing story of a son drawn inexorably into his father’s Mafia affairs.
24=. OrdetCarl Dreyer, Denmark 1955 Ordet (1955)The penultimate film by the Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer is a parable on the power of faith, set in a remote religious community.
24=. In the Mood for LoveWong Kar Wai, China 2000 In the Mood for Love (2000)Wong Kar Wai’s ravishing romance stars Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung as two wronged spouses in 1960s Hong Kong who find comfort in each other’s company.
26=. RashomonKurosawa Akira, Japan 1950 Rashomon (1950)Credited with bringing Japanese cinema to worldwide audiences, Kurosawa Akira’s breakthrough tells the story of a murder in the woods from four differing perspectives.
26=. Andrei RublevAndrei Tarkovsky, 1966 Andrei Rublev (1966)The life of a 15th-century icon painter takes centre stage in Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic meditation on the place of art in turbulent times.
28. Mulholland Dr.David Lynch, USA 2001 Mulholland Dr. (2001)In David Lynch’s labyrinthine neo-noir, Naomi Watts plays an aspiring ingénue who moves in with an amnesiac woman on her arrival in Hollywood. The famously open-ended plot reflects the film’s origin as a TV pilot.
29=. StalkerAndrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union 1979 Stalker (1979)The Stalker guides illegal visitors through the overgrown labyrinth of the Zone, an area of alien traps and treasures, containing a room where wishes may come true…
29=. ShoahClaude Lanzmann, France 1985 Shoah (1985)An epic eyewitness account of the Holocaust told by those who lived through it.
31=. The Godfather Part IIFrancis Ford Coppola, USA 1974 The Godfather Part II (1974)Both prequel and sequel to the original, The Godfather Part II follows two generations of the Corleone family as they fight for supremecy in the treacherous world of organised crime.
31=. Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese, USA 1976 Taxi Driver (1976)In this searing portrait of urban paranoia one man’s search for redemption ends in a violent showdown.
33. Bicycle ThievesVittoria De Sica, Italy 1948 Bicycle Thieves (1948)The theft of a bicycle becomes the catalyst for a father and son’s odyssey through the poverty-stricken streets of post-war Rome. One of the defining classics of Italian neorealism.
34. The GeneralBuster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, USA 1926 The General (1926)Set during the American civil war, Buster Keaton’s most ambitious film combines spectacular action sequences and hilarious comedy aboard the runaway locomotive of the title.
35=. MetropolisFritz Lang, Germany 1927 Metropolis (1927)Lang’s pioneering work of science-fiction depicts a dystopian future in which a privileged elite rule over the futuristic city of Metropolis until one day the workers rise up from underground to rebel against their masters.
35=. PsychoAlfred Hitchcock, USA 1960 Psycho (1960)Often imitated but never bettered, Hitchcock’s low budget “shocker” paved the way for the modern horror film.
35=. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 BruxellesChantal Akerman, Belgium/France 1975 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)In precise detail Akerman observes the daily routines of a single mother in her apartment and the consequences that transpire when things begin to unravel.
35=. SátántangóBéla Tarr, Switzerland/Germany/Hungary 1994 Sátántangó (1994)An epic seven-hour evocation of life in an isolated Hungarian village told in Tarr’s slow-moving meditative style.
39=. The 400 BlowsFrançois Truffaut, France 1959 The 400 Blows (1959)Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood for this classic account of a troubled adolescent looking for an escape route from an unhappy life.
39=. La dolce vitaFederico Fellini, France/Italy 1960 La dolce vita (1960)Marcello Mastroianni is the paparazzi journalist whose life is an endless round of hedonistic parties and superficial liaisons as he searches for meaning amidst the crumbling grandeur of Rome’s once imperial city.
41. Journey to ItalyRoberto Rossellini, France/Italy 1954 Journey To Italy (1954)Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders play a middle-aged English couple whose marriage falls apart during a journey through Italy. A pioneering work of modernism that links Italian neo-realism with the French new wave. 42=. Pather PanchaliSatyajit Ray, India 1955 Pather Panchali (1955)The first part of Satyajit Ray’s acclaimed Apu Trilogy is a lyrical, closely observed story of a peasant family in 1920s rural India.
42=. Some Like It HotBilly Wilder, USA 1959 Some Like It Hot (1959)On the run from Chicago mobsters, two musicians don drag to join an all-girl jazz band fronted by Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) in Billy Wilder’s hugely popular comedy.
42=. GertrudCarl Dreyer, Denmark 1964 Gertrud (1964)The conflict of a woman between her husband, her lover and the lover of her youth, and her failure to find happiness with any of them.
42=. Pierrot le fouJean-Luc Godard, France/Italy 1965 Pierrot le fou (1965)Riffing on the classic couple-on-the run movie, enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard took the narrative innovations of the French New Wave close to breaking point.
42=. Play TimeJacques Tati, France 1967 Playtime (1967)© Les Films de Mon OncleJacques Tati directs and stars in this fun account of the bumbling M. Hulot’s day in Paris.
42=. Close-UpAbbas Kiarostami, Iran 1990 Close-Up (1990)Drama-documentary, based on the true story of an unemployed movie buff who passes himself off as the celebrated movie director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, to a woman he meets on a bus. He leads her cinephile family to believe that they will appear in his next film. Eventually he ends up in jail where his trial is filmed by Kiarostami…
48=. The Battle of AlgiersGillo Pontecorvo, Algeria/Italy 1966 The Battle of Algiers (1966)Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterpiece about the turbulent last years of French colonial rule in Algeria, seen from the perspective of both the guerrilla revolutionaries and the French authorities.
48=. Histoire(s) du cinémaJean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland 1998 Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-98)Godard’s dense, sprawling essay meditation on cinema and its relationship to the political history of the twentieth century.
50=. City LightsCharlie Chaplin, USA 1931 City Lights (1931)The Tramp wins the affections of a blind flower seller (Virginia Cherrill) in this hilarious but heartbreaking comedy – one of Charlie Chaplin’s uncontested masterpieces.
50=. Ugetsu monogatariMizoguchi Kenji, Japan 1953 Ugetsu monogatari (1953)In war-torn 16th-century Japan, two men leave their wives to seek wealth and glory in Mizoguchi Kenji’s tragic supernatural classic.
50=. La JetéeChris Marker, France 1962 La Jetée (1962)This science-fiction short directed by Chris Marker is composed almost complete of still images. Its story, about time travel following a nuclear apocalypse, inspired Terry Gilliam’s 1995 feature 12 Monkeys.
53=. North by NorthwestAlfred Hitchcock, USA 1959 North by Northwest (1959)Cary Grant’s ad exec falls foul of a mysterious crime plot and a low-flying cropduster in Hitchcock’s witty, cross-country thriller co-starring Eva-Marie Saint. 53=. Rear WindowAlfred Hitchcock, USA 1954 Rear Window (1954)Hitchcock’s fascination with voyeurism reached its apotheosis in this mystery thriller, in which James Stewart suspects he has witnessed a murder in a neighbouring apartment. 53=. Raging BullMartin Scorsese, USA 1980 Raging Bull (1980)Starring Robert De Niro as the middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, Scorsese’s biopic is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest films of the 1980s. 56. MFritz Lang, Germany 1931 M (1931)For his first sound film Fritz Lang turned to the story of a child killer (Peter Lorre), who is hunted down by police and underworld alike. 57=. The LeopardLuchino Visconti, France/Italy 1963 The Leopard (1963)Sumptous adaptation by Luchino Visconti of Lampedusa’s classic novel, set in Sicily during the Risorgimento of the 19th century. Burt Lancaster plays the Prince of Salina, Alain Delon his nephew, and Claudia Cardinale the beautiful woman they both fall for. 57=. Touch of EvilOrson Welles, USA 1958 Touch of Evil (1958)Orson Welles’s return to Hollywood after ten years working in Europe is a sleazy border tale in which he takes centre stage as gargantuan detective Hank Quinlan. 59=. Sherlock Jr.Buster Keaton, USA 1924 Sherlock Jr. (1924)Keaton’s third feature is a breathtakingly virtuosic display of every silent comedy technique imaginable, from his own formidable physical skills to some then-groundbreaking camera trickery. 59=. Barry LyndonStanley Kubrick, UK/USA 1975 Barry Lyndon (1975)Stanley Kubrick’s exquisitely detailed adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel about the picaresque exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer. 59=. La Maman et la putainJean Eustache, France 1973 The Mother and the Whore (1973)Deals with the relations, largely sexual, between an anarchic young man and his two mistresses, one seemingly permanent, who keeps him, the other seemingly casual. 59=. Sansho DayuMizoguchi Kenji, Japan 1954 Sansho Dayu (1954)This sweeping historical tragedy about two children separated from their parents and sold into slavery continued a run of late masterpieces from Mizoguchi Kenji. 63=. Wild StrawberriesIngmar Bergman, Sweden 1957 Wild Strawberries (1957)On a road trip to receive an honorary degree, an elderly academic (Victor Sjöstrom) looks back over his life in Ingmar Bergman’s art-cinema classic. 63=. Modern TimesCharles Chaplin, USA 1936 Modern Times (1936)The final outing for Charlie Chaplin’s beloved Tramp character finds him enduring the pratfalls and humiliations of work in an increasingly mechanised society. 63=. Sunset Blvd.Billy Wilder, USA 1950 Sunset Blvd. (1950)The most caustic of European émigré directors, Wilder explored the movie industry and the delusions of stardom in Hollywood’s great poison pen letter to itself. 63=. The Night of the HunterCharles Laughton, USA 1955 The Night of the Hunter (1955)Actor Charles Laughton’s only film as a director is a complete one-off, a terrifying parable of the corruption of innocence featuring a career-best performance from Robert Mitchum. 63=. PickpocketRobert Bresson, France 1959 Pickpocket (1959)Robert Bresson chronicles the life of a petty thief in this philosophical film, with a screenplay inspired by Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and a cast featuring several non-professional actors. 63=. Rio BravoHoward Hawks, USA 1958 Rio Bravo (1959)A decade after Red River (1947), Howard Hawks reteamed with John Wayne for this rambling western riffing on the director’s usual themes of friendship and professionalism. 69=. Blade RunnerRidley Scott, Hong Kong/USA 1982 Blade Runner (1982)Loosely adapted from a novel by Phillip K. Dick, Ridley Scott’s dark, saturated vision of 2019 Los Angeles is a classic of popular science-fiction cinema. 69=. Blue VelvetDavid Lynch, USA 1986 Blue Velvet (1986)In David Lynch’s idiosyncratic drama, a young man’s curiosity draws him into the twisted criminal sub-culture operating beneath the placid surface of his cosy hometown. 69=. Sans SoleilChris Marker, France 1982 A veteran cameraman who has travelled throughout the world relays his impressions on the different countries and life in general to a female commentator. 69=. A Man EscapedRobert Bresson, France 1956 A Man Escaped (1956)True story of the hazardous and daring wartime escape of a French officer from the condemned cell of a Nazi prison, with action set to Mozart’s Great C-Minor Mass. 73=. The Third ManCarol Reed, UK/USA 1949 The Third Man (1949)An American abroad in post-war Vienna pursues his missing friend down a rabbit hole of intrigue and moral corruption in Carol Reed’s masterpiece of European noir. 73=. L’eclisseMichelangelo Antonioni, France/Italy 1962 L’eclisse (1962)Antonioni’s film charts the hot and cold relationship of a young couple in bustling Rome. 73=. Les enfants du paradisMarcel Carné, France 1945 Les Enfants du paradis (1945)Made during the Nazi occupation of France, Marcel Carne’s romantic epic of the 19th-century theatre world is a life-affirming tribute to love, Paris and the stage. 73=. La grande illusionJean Renoir, France 1937 La Grande Illusion (1937)Jean Renoir’s pacifist classic is set in a German prisoner-of-war camp during WWI, where class kinship is felt across national boundaries. 73=. NashvilleRobert Altman, USA 1975 Nashville (1975)Made to celebrate the bicentennial of American Independence, Robert Altman’s footloose epic blends the lives of 24 characters in the capital of country music. 78=. ChinatownRoman Polanski, USA 1974 Chinatown (1974)Roman Polanski’s brilliant thriller stars Jack Nicholson as a private eye uncovering corruption in 1930s Los Angeles, a desert town where water equals power. 78=. Beau TravailClaire Denis, France 1998 Beau Travail (1999)Loosely based on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd but with the action transferred to contemporary Djibouti, and the French Foreign legion, Claire Denis’s film is balletic, oblique and photographically stunning. 78=. Once Upon a Time in the WestSergio Leone, Italy/USA 1968 Once upon a Time in the West (1968)The railroad rushes westward, bringing power and progress with it, in Sergio Leone’s grandest spaghetti western, an operatic homage to Hollywood’s mythology of the Old West. 81=. The Magnificent AmbersonsOrson Welles, USA 1942 The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)Among the most famous of broken films, Orson Welles’s masterful follow-up to Citizen Kane was taken out of his control and re-edited by the studio. 81=. Lawrence of ArabiaDavid Lean, UK 1962 An eccentric English officer inspires the Arabs to unite against the Turks during WWI in David Lean’s seven Oscar-winner, an epic in every sense. 81=. The Spirit of the BeehiveVíctor Erice, Spain 1973 The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, two small sisters live in a remote village in Castille. A mobile cinema screening of Frankenstein captures Ana’s imagination vividly, and is still in her mind when she finds a wounded soldier in the barn. 84=. Fanny and AlexanderIngmar Bergman, France/Sweden 1984 Fanny and Alexander (1982)The grand summation of Ingmar Bergman’s career, this epic family drama drew on the director’s own childhood experiences in early 20th century Sweden. 84=. CasablancaMichael Curtiz, USA 1942 Casablanca (1942)Everybody comes to Rick’s bar, including expat Rick’s (Humphrey Bogart) former lover Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), in one of Hollywood’s most-loved romantic melodramas. 84=. The Colour of PomegranatesSergei Parajanov, USSR 1968 The Colour of Pomegranates (1969)Parajanov’s lyrical evocation of the life of the 18th century Armenian poet Harutyan Sayatyan uses symbolic imagery patterned after Armenian icons and the folk theatre traditions of masque and mime, and is told through a series of titled episodes. 84=. GreedErich von Stroheim, USA 1925 Greed (1924)Silent cinema’s most famous ‘lost’ film, von Stroheim’s monumental study of three ordinary lives destroyed by avarice was ruinously edited down by the studio. 84=. A Brighter Summer DayEdward Yang, Taiwan 1991 A Brighter Summer Day (1991)Through a focus on one central male protagonist, an idealistic student who refuses to compromise his moral standards, Edward Yang’s historical memoir looks at growing up in Taiwan during the 1960s and the problems of military dictatorship, unemployment and immigration from mainland China. 84=. The Wild BunchSam Peckinpah, USA 1969 The Wild Bunch (1969)A gang of outlaws goes out in a blaze of violence and glory in Sam Peckinpah’s elegiac film about the dying days of the wild west. 90=. Partie de campagneJean Renoir, France 1936 Partie de campagne (1936)This featherlight, 40-minute romance directed by Jean Renoir and based on a Guy de Maupassant story follows a love affair over the course of a summer afternoon in the countryside outside Paris. 90=. Aguirre, Wrath of GodWerner Herzog, Federal Republic of Germany 1972 Klaus Kinski stars as a megalomaniacal soldier leading a group of conquistadores down river in search of El Dorado on Werner Herzog’s oblique study of madness. 90=. A Matter of Life and DeathMichael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK 1946 A Matter of Life and Death (1946)In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s audacious Technicolor fantasy, WWII airman David Niven finds himself summoned to heaven after surviving a plane crash that should have killed him. 93=. The Seventh SealIngmar Bergman, Sweden 1957 The Seventh Seal (1957)During the plague-ravaged middle ages, a knight buys time for himself by playing chess with Death in Bergman’s much-imitated arthouse classic. 93=. Un chien andalouLuis Buñuel, France 1928 Un chien andalou (1929)Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali collaborated in this surrealist silent short, notorious for its eye-slashing opening scene, its perplexing Freudian imagery and dream-logic narrative flow. 93=. IntoleranceD.W. Griffith, USA 1916 Intolerance (1916)Responding to criticisms of racism for his record-breaking The Birth of a Nation, filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith made this epic drama depicting intolerance through the ages. 93=. A One and a TwoEdward Yang, Japan/Taiwan 1999 Edward Yang’s second film in our top 100 films offers a lucid, novelistic tapestry of contemporary Taiwanese anomie through the layers of multiple generations of a Taipei family. 93=. The Life and Death of Colonel BlimpMichael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK 1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)Deborah Kerr and Roger Livesey star in this wondrous British Technicolor classic – one of cinema’s greatest studies of ‘Englishness’. 93=. Touki BoukiDjibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal 1973 Touki-Bouki (1973)A young boy and a girl decide to emigrate from Senegal to France in search of a better life. They travel around the country on a motorbike trying various schemes to raise the money for the trip. 93=. Fear Eats the SoulRainer Werner Fassbinder, Federal Republic of Germany 1974 Fear Eats the Soul (1974)Fassbinder’s international breakthrough is an unconventional love story with devastating emotional power. 93=. Imitation of LifeDouglas Sirk, USA 1959 Imitation of Life (1959)Lana Turner shines in Douglas Sirk’s moving rags-to-riches tale. 93=. Madame de…Max Ophüls, France/Italy 1953 Madame de… (1953)Tragic consequences ensue when a society woman pawns the earrings her husband gave her, in Max Ophüls’s graceful and opulent period drama. Credits and acknowledgementOur Greatest Films of All Time poll was the work of many hands over many months, and could not have been compiled without the following… S&S staffIsabel Stevens, James Bell, Nick Bradshaw, Kieron Corless, Nick James and all at Sight & Sound. Wrangler-in-chiefMar Diestro-Dópido. Intern assistantsOwen Van Spall, Bethany Rutter, Alisha Patel. Web developmentIain Duncan, Paul McManus and all at BFI Digital; James, Colin and Ben at Endless; Stephen McConnachie and the BFI’s Collections Information department. 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