UNITED STATES · 1976

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese
New Hollywood urban decay mental illness isolation vigilantism moral corruption
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Synopsis

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.

Year1976
CountryUnited States
DirectorMartin Scorsese
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