Movies and TvShows featuring "taxi-dispatcher" theme.

The Infidel is a comedy-drama film that follows the story of a British Muslim man who discovers that he was adopted and is actually Jewish. The film explores themes of identity, culture clash, and religious differences, as the main character navigates his newfound heritage and confronts prejudices and stereotypes.

Bigger Than Life (1956) tells the story of a schoolteacher named Ed Avery who starts taking cortisone as a treatment for a rare inflammatory disease. However, he becomes addicted to the drug, leading to severe mood swings, hallucinations, and a complete transformation of his personality. As his behavior becomes increasingly erratic and abusive, his wife and son struggle to cope with the consequences. The film explores themes of mental illness, drug addiction, and the destructive effects of societal pressures.

When taxi drivers in London go on strike, a cab company owner must recruit new drivers to keep the business afloat. As the new drivers learn the ropes, they face various comedic challenges and encounters, including a pregnant wife, a bank robber, and a rival cab company. Hilarity ensues as they navigate the chaotic world of taxi driving in London.

99 River Street follows a former boxer turned taxi driver, who finds himself embroiled in a dangerous criminal underworld after his wife is murdered and he is falsely accused of the crime. As he evades the police and tries to clear his name, he discovers a network of jewel thieves and a plot involving stolen diamonds. With his livelihood and freedom on the line, he must navigate the seedy underbelly of New York City to find the truth and seek justice.

High school is over, and everybody in the small town just up the Hudson from New York City where Jim lives has made plans and moved on. Everybody except Jim. While his buddies head off to one Ivy League college or another, Jim rejects their upwardly-mobile choices and takes a job driving for the local cab company instead, which allows him plenty of free time to hang out, drink with the locals at John's Bar and Grill, and think back on the love affair with a married woman that, for the exquisite moment it lasted, brought passion and meaning to his life. Drawing partially on events from his own life, first time writer/director Peter Callahan tells a poignant and sometimes hilarious story about what happens when life moves on and you're not quite ready to move with it.

Ihor works from home in a taxi answering service. He seems to be imprisoned in his room in a depressing apartment block opposite the pompous Orthodox cathedral. To escape the hopelessness, Ihor tries to interpret his precarious daily life as creatively as possible. Growing sunflowers on his balcony and creating rotoscoping animation on an out-of-date black&white printer become important rituals of resistance.