Movies like Taxi Driver 1976
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Taxi Driver (1976)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style:
psychological, bleak, neo noir, disturbing, cerebral, controversial, dark, atmospheric, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot:
character study, loner, violence, vigilante, obsession, alienation, loneliness, vigilantism, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, antisocial behavior, social decay, paranoia, depression, rejection, taxi driver, prostitution, drug dealer, murder, gunfight, mental illness, revenge, city, assassination ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, vietnam, harlem, harlem manhattan new york city, united states of america ...
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Most similar movies to Taxi Driver
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark, weird, realistic and stylized films with plots about brutality, violence, violent, storytelling, dialogue, suspense and visceral mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Taxi Driver: Joker (2019), Nightcrawler (2014), Falling Down (1993), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Fight Club (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, bleak, psychological, cynical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, villain, suspense, mental disorder, social problems, loneliness, psychological trauma, psycho, revenge, character change, insanity, psychopath ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, los angeles
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93%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Style:
neo noir, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
suspense, character study, journalism, sociopath, cynicism, obsession, journalist, morality, psychopath, ethics, home invasion, graphic violence ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, venice beach california
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91%
194K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
On the day of his daughter's birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster is trying to get to the home of his estranged ex-wife to see his daughter. His car breaks down, so he leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. ...
Style:
rough, psychological, disturbing, bleak, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
rage, anger, midlife crisis, violence, obsession, urban decay, police officer, vigilante, alienation, losing-it hero, gang, revenge ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, bleak, sexy, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
police, gambling, drugs, rape, police corruption, corruption, addiction, drug addiction, gangsters, redemption, violent, character study ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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2.2M
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, thought provoking, twist ending, surreal ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, plot twist, fight, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, against the rules, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
delaware, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surreal, stylized, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, dark humor, satire, greed, sociopath, materialism, psycho, violence, killings, yuppie ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, canada, manhattan new york city, yale university, usa ...
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80%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
hitman, suspense, psychopath, desert, human nature, serial killer, greed, peril, brutality, sheriff, death, murderer ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
Style:
tragicomedy, funny, talky, stylized, tense ...
Plot:
obsession, desire for fame, ambition, showbiz, character study, dark humor, delusion, kidnapping, artists and showbiz, insanity, satire, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, atmospheric, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
hallucination, mental illness, hospital, redemption, medical, ambulance, crime gone awry, rescue, haunted by the past, patient, dealing with death, misfit partners ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Style:
controversial, atmospheric, disturbing, brutal, surreal ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, dark humor, violence, insanity, violent, satire, mass murder, criminal heroes, murderous pair, lovers on the run, media ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, nevada, new mexico, paris france, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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655K
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, heist, mechanic, lone wolves, tough heroes, suspense, revenge, loner, organized crime, car, violent, love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
359K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his ...
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, bloody, breathtaking, harsh ...
Plot:
character study, boxing, violent, sport, rise and fall, bad temper, tragedy, redemption, jealousy, gangsters, paranoia, fight ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s, 1940s, year 1956 ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, italy, detroit, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
12K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, sexy, erotic, psychological ...
Plot:
porn industry, sex, private detective, perversion, sex worker, female nudity, father, sexuality, prostitution, murder, father daughter relationship, strip club ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, san francisco, usa, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
855K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, harsh, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, manly, boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, gunfight, drug lord, drug cartel, mob boss, cocaine, ambition, drug dealing, drug abuse, violence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
miami, miami beach, cuba, florida, bolivia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and ...
Style:
depressing, psychological, disturbing, controversial, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
incest, alienation, butcher, loneliness, insanity, revenge, nihilism, violent, obsession, existentialism, misfit, character on the edge ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychological, controversial, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, home invasion, rape, small town, violent, rape and revenge, revenge, murder, female nudity, sexual desire, brutality, sexual assault ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, cornwall, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Style:
controversial, rough, harsh, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, violence, vengeance, revenge, police, murder, home invasion, rape and revenge, gang, gunfight, one against many ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, tucson arizona, honolulu hawaii ...
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63%
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, atmospheric, psychedelic, cerebral ...
Plot:
gang, insanity, rape, violent, surrealism, psychology, drugs, distopia, violence, psychopath, brutality, murder ...
Time:
future, year 1995, 20th century, 90s, 70s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Style:
tense, realistic, atmospheric, bleak, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, friendship, character study, gang, money, urban ghetto life, life philosophy, friends, street gang, exotic dancer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style:
surreal, funny, atmospheric, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
twists and turns, dark humor, suicide, coincidence, artist, mistaken identity, paranoia, female nudity, nightclub, city life, nightlife, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style:
dark, neo noir, intense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, death, vigilantism, vigilante, suspense, car, violence, murder, brutality, violent, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Leon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, ...
Style:
neo noir, rough, touching, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
hitman, mentor, organized crime, revenge, friendship, loneliness, murder, sniper, loner, killings, life philosophy, gunfight ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, france, paris france, canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
412K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style:
tense, clever, neo noir, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, twists and turns, taxi, taxi driver, hostage, killings, assassin, merciless, victim, sociopath, murder witness, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries worry about his mental well-being and his ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, neo noir ...
Plot:
addiction, drug dealing, drug dealer, obsession, drugs, going straight, life is a bitch, hopes, drug abuse, insomnia, suicide, existentialism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
Style:
psychological, exciting, rough, dark, tense ...
Plot:
murder, child prostitution, hotel, childhood trauma, suicidal thoughts, teenage girl, suicide, violence, suspense, corruption, u.s. senator, pedophilia ...
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style:
suspenseful, surprise ending, disturbing, scary, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, insanity, police investigation, murder, suspense, killings, sin ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
178K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social ...
Style:
bleak, art house, disturbing, thought provoking, rough ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
poverty, racism, drugs, skinhead, rebel, ghetto, youth, police brutality, police, friendship, rebellion, gangsters ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
24K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Young Limburg cattle farmer, Jacky Vanmarsenille, is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious West-Flemish beef trader. But the assassination of a federal policeman, and an unexpected confrontation with a ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, emotional, thought provoking, surreal ...
Plot:
mafia, friendship, violence, farm, character study, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, revenge, notoriety, organized crime, tragic event, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, france, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, drugs, infidelity, psychopath, lust, killer, gangsters, punk rock, sex, violent, dark humor ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, new york yankees ...
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32%
146K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, realistic, touching, reflective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, coming of age, organized crime, mentor, loyalty, gang leader, father son relationship, friendship, african american, gang, brutality ...
Time:
60s, year 1960, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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