Taxi Driver (1976, U.S.A.)

This groundbreaking drama of urban alienation from director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader that is now classic cinema.

Vietnam vet, Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works as a loner night-shift cabbie in New York.  Roving the streets, he kills time by keeping a diary, popping pills and hanging out in porn theatres.  His frustrations at the filth around him, and his encounters with a teenage prostitute (Jodie Foster) compel him to clean up the streets in which he operates.  NO-HOLDS-BARRED VIOLENCE ensues.