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. Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver returns to The Frida Cinema to celebrate its 50th anniversary! Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a lonely, insomniac Vietnam veteran who takes a job driving a cab through the seedy streets of 1970s New York City. As he becomes increasingly disgusted with the world around him, Travis spirals into an obsessive crusade to cleanse the city of its perceived corruption. But as Travis’s grip on reality begins to unravel, his fantasy of becoming a hero threatens to explode into horrifying violence. Featuring one of De Niro’s most iconic performances, Paul Schrader’s razor-sharp screenplay, and Bernard Herrmann’s unforgettable, jazz-inflected score, Taxi Driver remains one of the defining achievements of American cinema. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, Scorsese’s feverish portrait of urban alienation helped shape the modern psychological thriller and gave us one of cinema’s most unsettling antiheroes.

Director

Martin Scorsese

Year

1976

Runtime

114 minutes