Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver

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.

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Produced by Bill/Phillips Productions, Columbia Pictures

1976114 min8.1 / 10

A bleak, introspective character study of urban alienation and psychological unraveling, where a disturbed loner's descent into vigilante violence is presented as both inevitable and morally ambiguous.

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

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  • Is Taxi Driver sad? Yes, very. More sad than 96% of films.

  • Is Taxi Driver one of a kind? Yes, very. More singular than 95% of films.

  • Is Taxi Driver scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 94% of films.

  • Is Taxi Driver easy watching? No. Less comforting than 92% of films.

  • Is Taxi Driver violent? Yes. More violent than 83% of films.

  • Does Taxi Driver end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 83% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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