'Taxi Driver' won the Palme d'Or at Cannes on this day in 1976. Martin Scorsese's searing study in urban alienation stars Robert De Niro as Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle, working the night shift as a taxi driver in New York.

Paul Schrader's script explores the revulsion Travis feels towards the sleaze around him and how his mental deterioration leads to a final bloody outburst of horrifying violence.

In 2015 'Taxi Driver' was ranked 19th on the BBC's "100 Greatest Films List" voted on by film critics from around the world.