Taxi Driver (1976)

Taxi Driver is a 1976 psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The film is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War.

Film is about a Vietnam veteran who is dishonorably discharged. He settles in to New York and takes up a new career as a taxi driver. He suffers from insomnia, and gradually begins to go insane. After putting himself through a physical fitness routine, and buying illegal arms, he decides that it's time to put a stop to the petty crime in New York. The Taxi Driver is chilling. It will make your spine feel as though some threw someone ice water in there. It's also superbly written and directed, and features a lot of up and coming stars before they were truly famous.

The film stars Robert De Niro and features Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, and Cybill Shepherd. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The American Film Institute ranked Taxi Driver as the 52nd greatest American film on their AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list.