Taxi(Movie, 1998)

Name: Taxi
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Released: 1998
Duration: T01:26:00
Rating: 3.3

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 26min | Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 1,058 votes)

Taxi is a 1998 French action comedy film starring Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal and Marion Cotillard, written by Luc Besson and directed by Gérard Pirès. It is the first installment in the Taxi film series. It has four sequels, Taxi 2, Taxi 3, Taxi 4 and Taxi 5 and one English-language remake, Taxi (2004). It also provided the premise for the 2014 American television show, Taxi Brooklyn. The film is set in Marseille. In the film, a bumbling police inspector blackmails a taxi driver into helping him track down a German gang. He soon moves into the driver's house. The driver is motivated to complete their crime-fighting mission, in order to ge... ()

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About Taxi

In Marseilles (France), 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.

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Trailer for Taxi + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Taxi Movie Trailer 1998 - English Subtitled(Trailer, 0:58)

Taxi Movie Trailer 1998 - English Subtitled (Trailer) | Taxi - Bande annonce (Trailer, FR) | Taxi 1 - Bande Annonce [VF] (Trailer, FR) | Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production country: France

Shot in: Marseille

Plays in: Marseille

Derivative works/Adaptions: "Taxi" (movie, 2004), "Taxi Brooklyn" (TV show/series, 2014-)

Made by: StudioCanal, Canal Plus, EuropaCorp, ARP Sélection, TF1 Films Productions, TF1 International, Cofimage 9, Studio Image 4

Original language: French (FR)

Spoken languages: German (DE), French (FR), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT)

Translated into 32 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Uzbek (UZ), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 08/20/1998 (World premiere: 04/08/1998)

Cast: Samy Naceri, Marion Cotillard, Emma Wiklund, Frédéric Diefenthal, Manuela Gourary, Bernard Farcy, Dan Herzberg, Édouard Montoute, Georges Neri, Philippe du Janerand, Richard Sammel, Sébastien Thiéry, Tara Römer, Denis Braccini

Director: Gérard Pirès

Producer: Luc Besson

Screenwriter: Luc Besson

Film Editor: Véronique Lange

Director of Photography: Jean-Pierre Sauvaire

Composer: Akhenaton

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Такси"

"Táxi - Velocidade nas Ruas"

"出租车司机"

"终极杀阵"

"Taxi Express"

"Taxi 1"

"뤽 베송의 택시"

"Taksi"

"終極殺陣"

"Kirakash"

"Taksi"

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

Budget: 8,700,000 USD

Revenue: 44,500,000 USD (= 511%)

5 movies in the Taxi Collection

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Taxi(Movie, 1998)

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Trailer for Taxi + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

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