Taxi Driver

1976 · directed by Martin Scorsese

Rating

97/100

Hit

yes

Prestige lists

AFI 100, BFI Top 100, Palme d'Or, TSPDT 250, NFR

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.

Taxi Driver (1976), directed by Martin Scorsese, rates 97/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Robert De Niro
• Jodie Foster
• Cybill Shepherd
• Harvey Keitel
• Peter Boyle
• Leonard Harris
• Albert Brooks
• Diahnne Abbott
• Frank Adu
• Victor Argo

Crew

• Michael Chapman — Director of Photography
• Melvin Shapiro — Editor
• Tom Rolf — Editor
• Bernard Herrmann — Original Music Composer
• Paul Schrader — Writer

More from Martin Scorsese

1. GoodFellas (1990) — 97/100 · hit
2. Raging Bull (1980) — 96/100 · hit
3. The Departed (2006) — 89/100 · hit
4. Michael Jackson Video Greatest Hits: HIStory (1995) — 85/100 · hit
5. My Voyage to Italy (1999) — 85/100 · hit
6. The Last Waltz (1978) — 84/100 · hit

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