Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese’s classic returns to cinemas for its 50th anniversary in a stunning 4K restoration. A Vietnam veteran back in New York, Travis Bickle works the graveyard shift as a taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia. Night after night, the city’s moral decay and grimy streets disturb him as deeply as the horrors of the battlefield. Adrift and disillusioned, he becomes fixated on saving Iris, a teenage runaway drawn into prostitution, setting off on a violent path of no return. Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster deliver landmark performances, embodying a chilling descent into self-destruction. Winner of the Palme d’Or and nominated for four Academy Awards, Scorsese’s raw portrait of urban alienation remains an essential diagnosis of a society defined by loneliness. Half a century later, the meter is still running.