
Movies that feel likeTaxi Driver (1976)
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).
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If Taxi Driver hit the spot, these will too

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: obsession
The difference: Easier on the grit than Taxi Driver

Voiceover walking you calmly through a thoroughly rotten world
The difference: Opulent and sprawling, about money and marriage rather than isolation

An ordinary man consumed by a fixation nobody around him shares
The difference: The obsession points at wonder, not violence

Obsessed men defined entirely by the work that isolates them
The difference: Cool professional precision — no descent into delusion

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

A psychopath's logic made disturbingly easy to follow
The difference: Elegant thriller machinery — madness kept at arm's length

Contemplative and obsessive in the same breath
The difference: 37 years apart, and the 2010s show

Common ground: drug dealer
The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Taxi Driver does

Gritty crime, and it commits to that
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Scorsese's New York streets, guilt and men circling the drain
The difference: Looser and more communal — a scene, not a single mind

The same preoccupation in both: obsession
The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Taxi Driver does
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