Taxi (1998 film)

Taxi
Theatrical release poster
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
Music by	Akhenaton
Production companies	ARP TF1 Films Productions Le Studio Canal+ Cofimage 9 Studio Image 4
Distributed by	ARP Sélection
Release date	8 April 1998 (1998-04-08)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$8.7 million[1]
Box office	$44.5 million[1]

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 get rid of his new housemate.