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Spoiler-free premise
A filmmaker drives a taxi through Tehran and listens as passengers reveal contrasting lives and opinions.
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Filmmaker Jafar Panahi drives a yellow taxi through Tehran, collecting passengers including a defender of executions, an injured man, two women carrying goldfish, a video seller, a lawyer, and his outspoken young niece.
Why it belongs
Jafar Panahi anchors a dashboard camera and rotating passengers as a compact, playful portrait of Tehran's law, class, gender, and cinema.
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Fixed dashboard views, traffic, phones, a goldfish bowl, a pirated-video bag, legal argument, and Panahi's niece's school assignment make restriction productive—each passenger changes the taxi's ethical and cinematic space.
Major award wins
No verified wins in this six-institution crosswalk.
Awards are reference metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
Good for
Date Night
Descriptive guidance derived from rating, genre, runtime, mood, and GCML scores.
Institutional reference ranks
Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250—AFI 100—
Reference metadata only · not part of the 40/40/20 score
Great Cinema Master List scores
Greatness8.4
Engagement8.6
Ease8.8
Persian · Not Rated Docufiction Mood: Witty & Observant
