Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver poster

Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a taxi driver at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in particular, has deteriorated into a cesspool. He's a loner who has strong opinions about what is right and wrong with mankind. For him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine. He becomes obsessed with her. After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. One of his priorities is to be the savior for Iris, a twelve-year-old runaway and prostitute who he believes wants out of the profession and under the thumb of her pimp and lover Matthew.

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writer: Paul Schrader

Production: Columbia Pictures

Genre: crime, drama

Year: 1976

MetaScore: 94/100

ImdbRating: 8.3

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 09 Feb 1976

Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 15 nominations.

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You're only as healthy as you feel - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

You're only as healthy as you feel

You fuckers - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

I realize now how much she's just like the others - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

I realize now how much she's just like the others

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Faster than you

I first saw her at Palantine Campaign headquarters at 63rd and Broadway - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

I first saw her at Palantine Campaign headquarters at 63rd...

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All the animals come out at night whores

I gotta get in shape - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

I gotta get in shape

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I'll tell you why

I got some bad ideas in my head - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

I got some bad ideas in my head

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Now I see this clearly

South Bronx - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

I have to clean the cum off the back seat - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

I have to clean the cum off the back seat

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How much was it

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The days go on and on

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The idea had been growing in my brain for some time

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I would say he has quite a few problems

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Look at it this way

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How's your driving record

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You're in a hell

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I'm waiting for the sun to shine

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Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep

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Take it or leave it

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I'm workin' long hours now

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You mean organezized

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I once had a horse

44 Magnum will do to a woman's pussy - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

44 Magnum will do to a woman's pussy

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I don't like what I'm doing

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Now I see it clearly

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We meet at a crossroads in history

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Now back to Gene Krupa's syncopated style

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Got change of a nickel

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That's all right

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I tried several times to call her

Dear Father and Mother - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

Dear Father and Mother

How's everything in the pimp business - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

How's everything in the pimp business

I think I know what you mean - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

I think I know what you mean

All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go

You're a young girl - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

You're a young girl

Can I help you - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

The one closet to the edge of the building - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

The one closet to the edge of the building

I took Betsy to Charles Coffee Shop on Columbus Circle - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

I took Betsy to Charles Coffee Shop on Columbus Circle

I gotta get in shape now - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

I gotta get in shape now

I'm no cop - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

My man is loaded - screenshot from movie Taxi Driver

My man is loaded

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That's my day off

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And many people are like that

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Then I pick up these two fags

Movie Quotes

Movie Cast

Concession Girl - Diahnne Abbott

Angry Black Man - Frank Adu

Melio - Victor Argo

Policeman at Rally - Gino Ardito

Iris' Friend - Garth Avery

Wizard - Peter Boyle

Tom - Albert Brooks

Cabbie in Bellmore - Harry Cohn

Hooker in Cab - Copper Cunningham

Travis Bickle - Robert De Niro

Soap Opera Woman - Brenda Dickson

Dispatcher - Harry Fischler

Iris - Jodie Foster

Stick-Up Man - Nat Grant

Charles Palantine - Leonard Harris

Tall Secret Service Man - Richard Higgs

Soap Opera Man - Beau Kayser

Sport - Harvey Keitel

Secret Service Photographer (as Vic Magnotta) - Victor Magnotta

Mafioso - Bob Maroff

Charlie T. - Norman Matlock

Tom's Assistant - Bill Minkin

Iris' Time Keeper - Murray Moston

Doughboy - Harry Northup

Street Drummer - Gene Palma

Campaign Worker (as Carey Poe) - Harlan Cary Poe

Andy, Gun Salesman - Steven Prince

The John - Peter Savage

Passenger Watching Silhouette - Martin Scorsese

Betsy - Cybill Shepherd

Palantine Aide - Nicholas Shields

T.V. Interviewer (as Ralph Singleton) - Ralph S. Singleton

Personnel Officer - Joe Spinell

Angry Hooker on Street - Maria Turner

Campaign Worker - Robin Utt

Boy on Sidewalk - Tommy Ardolino

Movie House Patron - Joseph Bergmann

Stuntman - David Daniel

Police Officer - William Donovan

Clerk at Sam Goody Store - Jean Elliott

Campaign Worker - Annie Gagen

Political Rally Attendee - Trent Gough

Political Rally Attendee - Carson Grant

Campaign Aide - Mary-Pat Green

Political Rally Attendee - Robert John Keiber

CIA Agent - James Mapes

Girl at Columbus Circle - Debbi Morgan

Political Rally Attendee - David Nichols

2nd Boy on sidewalk - Antone Pagán

Friend of Iris - Billie Perkins

Political Rally Attendee - Michael Phillips

Iris' Mother (newspaper article) - Catherine Scorsese

Iris' Father (newspaper article) - Charles Scorsese

Campaign Worker - Frankie Verroca