Synopsis
تاکسی
A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…
Audience Engagement
380 audience reviews — more than 98% of Other Asia films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 90th percentile among Other Asia films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Taxi. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Jafar Panahi Film Productions
Comedy + Drama in Other Asia
77 Other Asia titles in our catalog blend the Comedy and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Taxi itself).
The 2014–2016 Other Asia Window
Taxi holds position #18 of 65 Other Asia films in the 2014–2016 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s Other Asia Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Other Asia, 226 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Taxi premiered alongside 18 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 18 other Other Asia films in 2015.
The 344th Other Asia title from Other Asia we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1949).
Our Other Asia catalog contains 547 titles in total (522 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Taxi, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- taxi · 3
- fake documentary · 3
- passenger · 2
- subjective camera · 2
- censorship · 2
- metaphor · 2
- sharia law · 2
- pseudo-documentary · 1
- poverty · 24
- found footage · 22
- teheran (tehran) · 13
- mockumentary · 12
- taxi driver · 10
- iran · 33
- iran · 33
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #179 of 547 Other Asia films indexed here (67th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.4 points above the Other Asia average of 6.6/10.
Among Other Asia Comedy productions specifically: #48 of 183 (top 26%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Other Asia |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Iran |
| Original Language | Persian |
| Production Companies | Jafar Panahi Film Productions |
| Runtime | 1h 22m |
| Release Date | April 15, 2015 |
| IMDb | tt4359416 |