Taxi Driver

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Year:	1976
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Martin Scorsese
Genre:	Crime thriller
Starring:	Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster
Rating:	5/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/
Tagline:	On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.
Favourite line:	"All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

Martin Scorcese's savage attack on materialism and the Western way of life.

Robert De Niro plays the iconic Travis Binkle - a man whose face has adorned manies the student's bedroom wall throughout the years - a taxi driver who is utterly repulsed by all that he sees in mid 70's New York.
The conceit of seeing through his eyes, through the windows of the late night cab service, is ingenious, and gives the movie a real feeling of seediness.
As he drives he witnesses all things base - addicts, drunks vomiting in the street,. pimps, prostitutes and general misogyny and when, by coincidence, he falls for Cybil Shepherds election campaigner, matters must come to a head.

An anti-hero movie in every sense of the world, this is uncompromising and bleak in its vision, but tells you everything you need to know about the mood of New Yorkers at the time.
Simply stunning.