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Iran10 Essential Iranian FilmsStop 9 of 10
Taxi
تاکسی
Banned from making films, director Jafar Panahi poses as a Tehran cab driver, and the candid passengers who climb into his taxi — from a bootlegger to his own precocious niece — become a sly, humane portrait of life under censorship. An inventive docu-fiction.
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Genre
- Comedy · Drama
- Mood
- funny · thoughtful · dark
- Entry
- some context
- Best for
- shorter watch · a lighter route