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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 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), Crumb (1995) and Casino (1995). All three share Taxi Driver's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Strangers on a Train (1951).

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin Scorsesegrittycontemplativeobsessive
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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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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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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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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 · actionNetflixPrime Video

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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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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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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Blue Velvet
1986 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 87%★ 7.7mystery · thriller · crime

Common ground: drug dealer

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Taxi Driver does

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

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Trap
2024 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 57%★ 5.8thriller · crimePrime VideoMax

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.

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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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The Number 23
2007 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 7%★ 6.4thriller · mystery · crime

The same preoccupation in both: obsession

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Taxi Driver does

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

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