Taxi Driver (50th Anniversary, 4K Restoration)

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver returns to the big screen with this new 4K restoration. See our other 50th anniversary screenings here. 

Isolated ex-marine Travis Bickle applies for a job as a taxi driver, hoping that the nocturnal working pattern will alleviate the effects of his insomnia and distract him from his gnawing depression. But ferrying passengers through the seedy underbelly of night-time New York City only compounds Bickle's psychological dislocation from the world around him. 

After entering into a troubled relationship with a political campaigner and embarking on a fraught mission to save a teenager from the world of prostitution, Bickle's sense of place and purpose steadily warps. He withdraws into himself, hordes illegal firearms and begins a regimen of intense physical training in preparation for a misguided vigilante assault on the evils of society.

Robert De Niro gives an iconic performance as the increasingly disturbed Bickle, with a powerhouse supporting cast including Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd and a teenage Jodie Foster.