With his deteriorating mental state and growing black and white sense of right and wrong, Bickle discovers a way to fuel his violent rage by liberating a child prostitute (Foster). Taxi Driver follows Travis Bickle (De Niro), an honorably discharged war vet who suffers from PTSD who takes a job driving a taxi at night through New York City. Awards: Cannes Film Festival ( Palme d’Or).

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Hooks, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Harvey Keitel.

Out of our choices, our favorites are Taxi Driver, Leon: The Professional, and John Wick. That search led us to 15 movies we think you’ll enjoy if you felt a rush while watching The Equalizer.Īlthough many of these films share tropes of taking the law into their own hands, they execute them in a way that makes each of them unique and worth the watch. It follows Robert McCall (Washington), a soft-spoken former special forces commando who finds himself forced out of retirement to save the life of a teenage girl named Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz) through any lethal means.ĭirector Fuqua effortlessly leads up to the action, carving out a backstory for the characters that makes us root for them no matter how gruesome and vicious McCall gets in his efforts to save someone he barely knows.įor how much we appreciated the rollercoaster, we ached for movies that had a similar vibe or storyline. Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington join forces again in The Equalizer (2014), an action-packed crime thriller film.

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