Taxi

Director: Carlos Saura
Genre: Romance Film, Crime Fiction, Drama
Year: 1996
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Ingrid Rubio, Carlos Fuentes, Ágata Lys, Ángel de Andrés López, Eusebio Lázaro, Francisco Maestre, Maite Blasco, Francisco Boira, Iker Ortiz de Zárate, Chus Castrillo, Javier Manrique, Pilar Ordóñez, Isabel Ampudia, Alfonso Nsue Mbese, José Reche, Francisco Catalá, Rodolfo Sancho, Khalil Gasraoni, Agustín Vela, Pilar Castro, Juanma Robles, Vitorino

Taxi is a 1996 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura, starring Ingrid Rubio and focusing on the emergence of far-right and racist groups in Spain during the 1990s.

After failing one of her midterm exams in a Madrid high school, Paz Velasco decides to drop out of the academic circuit. She takes this prompt decision much to the chagrin of her father, an overbearing taxi driver. In exchange, he forces her to join him at work so she can learn the trade and earn a living.

Her reconnection with the so-called "Family", the close-knit group of her father's co-workers, is initially uneventful. One of its members is Dani, Paz's childhood sweetheart and a young taxi apprentice about to be discharged from the military service. Upon meeting for the first time in many years, they rekindle their mutual attraction and start dating, much to the apparent satisfaction of Dani's mother Reme -- a fellow cabbie who is having a secret affair with Paz's father. Reme's husband is a former taxi driver who, according to the explanations given to Paz, was shot by two drug dealers during a robbery. One of the shots left him paralyzed and the "Family"'s visits to him in the hospital are a staple in their common

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