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Rachel Wald Media Taxi Driver Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver starring Robert Dinero, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, and Cybill Shepard is quite possibly one of the darkest but best movies of all time. The movie follows the path of Deniro's character Travis Bickle on his life as a lonely insomniac who is basically isolated from society as whole. He applies for a job as taxi driver due to his insomnia and this career choice leads him …

…and all the wrong people are dead. This dark turn of events leaves the audience with a depressing feeling which was provided by Polanski's sorrows due t o his Wife's passing. Therefore Chinatown contains great performances by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, performances that we are sure not to forget. This film is also a masterpiece because the great Roman Polanski films it. Chinatown is arguably one of the greater crime films of this century.