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Taxi Driver – 50th Anniversary at GFT

5th (4.30 p.m.)  8th, 11th, 13th, 15th July, 2026

Robert De Niro stars in Martin Scorsese’s classic film of a psychotic New York cabbie driven to violence by loneliness and desperation.

Isolated ex-marine Travis Bickle applies for a job as a taxi driver, hoping that the nocturnal working pattern will alleviate the effects of his insomnia and distract him from his gnawing depression. But ferrying passengers through the seedy underbelly of night-time New York City only compounds Bickle’s psychological dislocation from the world around him. His nightshifts in the cab are spent resenting those he sees, while his waking daytime hours are wasted away in adult movie theatres.

After entering into a troubled relationship with a political campaigner and embarking on a fraught mission to save a teenager from the world of prostitution, Bickle’s sense of place and purpose steadily warps. He withdraws into himself, hoards illegal firearms and begins a regimen of intense physical training in preparation for a misguided vigilante assault on the evils of society.

“Martin Scorsese’s unflinching plunge into the darkest recesses of the human soul feels painfully relevant.” – Time Out

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GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB

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