Taxi Driver

Name: Taxi Driver
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1976
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 8.1

On every street in every city in this country, there's a nobody who dreams of being somebody. He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive.

1976·Directed by Martin Scorsese·4.3·1h 54m

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Crime Drama United States of America

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Recommended by 8 People

“Travis Bickle's lonely and unhinged mission to clean corruption from his city in Taxi Driver is not unlike the Narrator's attempts to destabilize corporate America in Fight Club.”

David Fincher

Director

“The enduring enigma of Taxi Driver is how such a dark and ugly spiral is so electrifyingly compelling, pulling the mesmerised viewer willingly into a waking nightmare.”

Edgar Wright

Director, Producer, Writer

“Tarantino has called Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' 'unarguably one of the greatest movies ever made' and 'the greatest first-person character-study ever committed to film.'”