Taxi

1998 film directed by Gérard Pirès

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6.7

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

Released: 1998-04-0886 minDir: Gérard PirèsAction, Comedy, Crime, AdventureBudget: $8.7MBox office: $44.2MPart of: Taxi Collection

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Cast

Samy Naceri as Daniel Morales
Frédéric Diefenthal as Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec
Marion Cotillard as Lilly Bertineau
Manuela Gourary as Camille Coutant-Kerbalec
Emma Wiklund as Petra
Bernard Farcy as Commissaire Gibert

Themes

taxi
taxi driver
marseille, france
pizza boy
pizza delivery
police officer
bank robbery

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Ratings

IMDb

7/10

95,513 votes

Year: 1998
Runtime: 89 min
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime
Rated: Not Rated
Awards: 3 wins & 5 nominations total

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Key facts

Directed by: Gérard Pirès
Written by: Luc Besson
Produced by: Luc Besson Michele Petin Laurent Petin
Starring: Samy Naceri Frédéric Diefenthal Marion Cotillard Manuela Gourary Emma Sjöberg Bernard Farcy
Cinematography: Jean-Pierre Sauvaire
Edited by: Véronique Lange
Music by: Akhenaton
Production companies: ARP TF1 Films Productions Le Studio Canal+ Cofimage 9 Studio Image 4
Distributed by: ARP Sélection
Release date: 10 April 1998 ( 1998-04-10 )
Running time: 90 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Budget: $8.7 million
Box office: $44.5 million

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Duration: 86
FilmAffinity ID: 687121

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Commons category: Taxi (1998 film)
publication date: 1998-08-20
title: Taxi

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Taxi is a 1998 French buddy cop comedy film starring Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal and Marion Cotillard, written by Luc Besson and directed by Gérard Pirès. The film follows a talented driver working a taxi in Marseille, who reluctantly must help a bumbling police inspector catch a gang of professional bank robbers.

It is the first installment in the Taxi film series, which has four sequels: Taxi 2 (2000), Taxi 3 (2003), Taxi 4 (2007), and Taxi 5 (2018).