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1) Sorum
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
Looking for a new start, a young taxi driver moves into Apt. 504 of an old tenement. He soon finds that the previous tenant died mysteriously, and everyone on the floor is connected to the man.
2) Goodbye Solo
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A Senegalese cab driver in North Carolina befriends an elderly fare who has given up on life.
3) Taxi blues
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
Description
In a world filled with hustlers and black marketers, Shlykov, a hard-working, anti-semitic taxi driver, is pushed over the edge when Lyosha, a Jewish saxophonist who personifies everything he despises, stiffs him for a fare. Shlykov tracks the irresponsible musician down and the two form a bizarre love-hate relationship. At first, class and race division make friendship for these two nearly impossible, until they both learn they aren't so different...
Publisher
Universe Laser & Video
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
May, born crippled, is injured in a traffic accident caused by Joe. Joe assumes he has made May a cripple, so he volunteers to help May in her father's supermarket. May's cousin Scarlet fancies Joe while Joe's brother falls for Scarlet. Meanwhile, May's uncle is opening another supermarket nearby. Joe unites everybody and manages to support May's father. Though May, Joe, Scarlet and Joe's brother have had much misunderstanding, they finally reconcile...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Donald and Isabelle have a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome. Donald, a good-natured but hapless cab driver has a knack for numbers. He falls head over heals in love with the beautiful but complex Isabelle when she joins the autism support group he leads.
8) Tāksī
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Persian
Description
Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.
9) Waterproof
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Eli, a Washington, D.C. storeowner, is inadvertently shot by the young son of a taxi cab driver. In a panic, his mom kidnaps the wounded Eli and flees to her hometown of Waterproof, Louisiana. Arriving at the home of her estranged family, its not long before a dark childhood secret is revealed. An emotionally-charged, faith-based story that focuses on the interaction of a stranger and a family torn apart by a long-buried secret.
10) The Duke
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous taxi dispatcher for a New York City taxi company. He tries to maintain order over the varied collection of strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his "cage," they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
13) 99 River Street
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline, who blames him for her lack of social status. Involved with jewel thief Victor Rawlins, Pauline is murdered by him when she impedes his ability to fence the jewels. Blamed for his wife's murder, Ernie must track down Rawlins before he leaves the country.
14) Speedy
Series
Criterion collection volume 788
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
None
Formats
Description
It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
15) Night on earth
Series
Criterion collection volume 401
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness....
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