Taxi Driver

Focus on 1976
Jodie Foster Retrospective

In the 50th Anniversary year of its release and as part of the Jodie Foster retrospective at KFF 2026, Taxi Driver continues to inspire, cause controversy and be on Greatest Films of All Time lists.

Starring Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, the eponymous taxi driver and an insomniac Vietnam War veteran. 12 year-old Jodie Foster is cast as Iris, a prostitute, who encounters Travis along with many other characters on his mission to clean up the streets of 1970s New York, where he plies his trade.

Winner of the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 1976.

"Taxi Driver is so volatile it nearly explodes from the screen. Under Martin Scorsese's brilliant direction, it works a dramatic tension that is inescapable, carefully, systematically straitjacketing its audience in the problems of its central character." Kevin Kelly, Boston Globe