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Movies that feel likeTaxi Driver (1976)

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

If you loved Taxi Driver, the closest films we have are Casino (1995), GoodFellas (1990) and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006). All three share Taxi Driver's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Tony Takitani (2004).

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin Scorsesegrittycontemplativeobsessive
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Casino
1995 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 79%★ 8.2crime · dramaPrime Video

Voiceover walking you calmly through a thoroughly rotten world

The difference: Opulent and sprawling, about money and marriage rather than isolation

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

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GoodFellas
1990 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%★ 8.7drama · crime

Scorsese's New York as a place that swallows the men living in it

The difference: Fast, funny and social — a life inside a crowd, not alone in a cab

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006 · dir. Tom Tykwer
🍅 59%★ 7.5crime · fantasy · drama

Obsession filmed from inside a mind that never had a way out

The difference: Sensual and fable-like, in a period world rather than a real city

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

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Tony Takitani
2004 · dir. Jun Ichikawa
🍅 88%★ 7.2drama

Loneliness studied so closely it becomes hypnotic

The difference: Serene and miniature — no violence, no city rot

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.

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Crumb
1995 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 95%★ 8documentary

Both keep coming back to the same thing: obsession

The difference: Easier on the grit than Taxi Driver

This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 91%★ 7.6science fiction · dramaPeacock

An ordinary man consumed by a fixation nobody around him shares

The difference: The obsession points at wonder, not violence

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

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Heat
1995 · dir. Michael Mann
🍅 84%★ 8.3crime · drama · action

Obsessed men defined entirely by the work that isolates them

The difference: Cool professional precision — no descent into delusion

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

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Mean Streets
1973 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 92%★ 7.1drama · crime

Scorsese's New York streets, guilt and men circling the drain

The difference: Looser and more communal — a scene, not a single mind

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

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Strangers on a Train
1951 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%★ 7.9crime · thriller · drama

A psychopath's logic made disturbingly easy to follow

The difference: Elegant thriller machinery — madness kept at arm's length

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
2013 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 77%★ 6.9drama

Contemplative and obsessive in the same breath

The difference: 37 years apart, and the 2010s show

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

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Midnight Express
1978 · dir. Alan Parker
🍅 90%★ 7.5drama · crime

Seventies grit about a man ground down by a system he can't escape

The difference: A prison ordeal — endurance story, not character study

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

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A Short Film About Killing
1988 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 91%★ 7.9crime · drama

Both are built on the same subject: taxi driver

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

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