Unsurprisingly, the driver likes to say "there are things you don't know". Another contemporary Iranian film, There Are Things You Dont Know, follows a taxi driver picking up various passengers in Tehran.Ten 2002 is a film by Abbas Kiarostami depicting ten journeys by a woman taxi driver in contemporary Tehran, and how she relates to her various passengers.Night on Earth by Jim Jarmusch: Five people take five taxis in five different cities in the world, and the film is about how every one of them will interact with the driver.Emergency Taxi is when a character urgently needs a cab, and moments after they yell "Taxi!" and raise their hand, one screeches to a halt.Įxamples of taxis as the whole point of the story: Related to Not My Driver, Follow That Car, Failing a Taxi, and in the UK Driver of a Black Cab. Cabs exist in futuristic ScienceFiction settings too, such as Bruce Willis' flying taxi in The Fifth Element. A New York taxi in a movie or TV series is likely to be an old-fashioned '50s-style Checker model (the last of these was retired from Real Life NYC service in 1999, though the motif held). Sinister cabbies may drive a fake taxi with a false registration number, so that they can use their cab to pick up victims without being traced.Įspecially likely to be seen in New York City or its fictional equivalents. Cab drivers range from friendly and wholesome (especially in a nostalgia-tinged Everytown, America setting), funny (in films where the driver is a source of Comic Relief-often overlapping with Funny Foreigner in American works, as a lot of taxi drivers in the US are immigrants), sleazy (in a Film Noir, where they may have a Mysterious Past or a Dark and Troubled Past), or downright sinister, like the Deranged Taxi Driver in a Horror film.
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