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Name: Taxi Driver
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: crime, drama
Released: 1976
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 8.2

Taxi Driver has an iRankMovies score of 86.2/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Taxi Driver (1976)

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.

Release:1976

Runtime:1h 54m

Country:United States

Director:Martin Scorsese

Language:English

Genre

CrimeDrama

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Keywords

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Taxi Driver rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.2/10· 1M votes

Rotten Tomatoes89%

Metacritic94%

TMDb8.125/10· 13K votes

With 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.2/10 on IMDb and 94/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Taxi Driver

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.

Cast of Taxi Driver

Robert De Niro
as Travis Bickle
Jodie Foster
as Iris
Cybill Shepherd
as Betsy
Harvey Keitel
as Sport
Peter Boyle
as Wizard
Leonard Harris
as Charles Palantine
Albert Brooks
as Tom
Diahnne Abbott
as Concession Girl
F
Frank Adu
as Angry Black Man
Victor Argo
as Melio
G
Gino Ardito
as Policeman at Rally
G
Garth Avery
as Iris' Friend

Taxi Driver facts

Budget: $1.9M
Box office: $28.6M

Our take on Taxi Driver

Scorsese's 1976 masterpiece follows insomniac cabbie Travis Bickle as alienation curdles into violence on the mean streets of 1970s New York. Hypnotic, disturbing and indelibly performed, it's the definitive portrait of urban loneliness tipping into madness. If its uneasy intensity and moral murk gripped you, seek out character studies and gritty city dramas about isolated men teetering on the edge.

Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026Methodology Data sources

Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Martin Scorsese captures urban alienation and loneliness with uncomfortable authenticity
•Travis Bickle's unraveling psychology unfolds naturally without artificial dramatic beats
•1970s setting enhances themes of urban decay and moral corruption pervasively

What the audience disliked

•Relentless bleakness and callous violence may exhaust viewers seeking redemption narrative
•Ambiguous ending leaves open interpretation, frustrating audiences seeking clear resolution