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* The first adventure of ''BenoitBrisefer'', "Les Taxis Rouges", was about a crime syndicate fronting as a cab company.

* ''DCCab''

* ''{{Collateral}}''
* Benny The Cab in ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', a toon taxi that shares his views on the Brooklyn Dodgers in the middle of a CarChase.

* ''TopTen'' has a blind taxi driver whose superpower is that he takes you where you ''should'' be, not where you want to go.

* ''{{Collateral}}''

* The second half of ''{{CSI NY}}'' season 4 had Mac and the team chasing the Taxi Cab killer, who [[NightmareFuel modified his cab to pump exhaust into the rear of the cab and suffocate his victims.]]

* Total Taxi in ''OverTheEdge'' is essentially a live-action version of ''CrazyTaxi'', and includes special garages set up all over the city to let you switch cabs to lose a tail and the ability to hire additional cabs to run interference and get you somewhere faster.

* At least two ''TwistedMetal'' games feature Yellow Jacket, a classic Checker cab [[WeaponizedCar armed to the teeth]].

* In ''TheElectricCompany'', there was the [[DrivesLikeCrazy "Swerve, Sweeney!"]] sketch.

* Bill Murray's character in ''Stripes'' is a cab driver as the film opens, after he's abused by one-too-many of his fares, he decides to join the army. [[JerkAss AFTER leaving his cab blocking traffic on a bridge and tossing the keys into the river below]].

* In ''{{Airplane}}'', Ted Striker is a taxi driver who leaves a fare at the airport with the meter running at the beginning of the film. After the end credits, [[BrickJoke we cut back to the waiting cab]] with the passenger grumbling "I'll give him twenty more minutes...but that's it!".
* ''CasinoRoyale1967'' Joanna Pettet has to leave London for Berlin, so naturally they flag a taxi. When it's specified to be ''West'' Berlin, the driver's okay with it.

* ''{{Seinfeld}}'' and other other New York comedies make heavy use of taxi cabs.
* TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir [[ExpositoryThemeTune whistled for a cab, and when it came near, the license plate said "FRESH" and it had dice in the mirror...]]

* The first episode of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''. [[spoiler: It's revealed that the murderer is a cabbie who uses his cab as a cover to pick up his victims.]]
* Detective Logan from ''LawAndOrder'' used to be a cab driver in his younger days. More than once uses his knowledge to break a suspect's alibi since he knows what the realistic drive times between locations really are and all the tricks drivers use to "fudge" records and cover up mistakes.

* ''SamAndFuzzy'' spent its first years with Sam employed as a taxi driver. [[TheAce Carlyle]] makes infrequent appearances even after Sam has quit, as a mysterious taxi driver to dispense characters {{koan}}s about their current situation.

* The cabs on the 25th Floor of ''TowerOfGod'' are peculiar, to say the least. They consist of carriages on the base of a sled that being pulled by a seal that flies through the sky, since the residential areas tend to be [[FloatingContinent on the clouds.]]

* ''DC Cab''

* ''The'' Cab in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', which drives you to all your missions (unless you're Nosferatu). For some odd reason, it's [[YouAllLookTheSame always the same taxi and the same driver that takes you everywhere]]. [[spoiler:This becomes a genuine plot point later on when it turns out it's genuinely the same driver and cab, who has been looking out for you for the entire game. You get to have a conversation with him that determines your ending. It's implied that the driver is actually Caine, the father of all vampires.]]

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* ''Film/{{Taxi}}'', a 1998 French action-comedy film written by Creator/LucBesson about a cabdriver who teams up with a police inspector to solve a series of robberies. It spawned three sequels.

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* ''Film/TheFifthElement'': Dallas works as a taxi driver.
* The Ghost of Christmas Past drives one of these in ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'', using it so he can pick up Frank Cross from a cab stand.

* ''Film/{{Taxi}}'', a 1998 French action-comedy film written by LucBesson about a cabdriver who teams up with a police inspector to solve a series of robberies. It spawned three sequels.

* ''Night on Earth'' by Jim Jarmusch: Five people take five taxis in five different cities in the world, and the film is about how every one of them will interact with the driver.

In RealLife, a common means of transportation in urban environments is to take a taxi. As a result the Taxi makes a cameo in many stories, is a plot point in several of them, and in some may be the whole point of the story. Especially likely to be seen in NewYorkCity or its [[BigApplesauce fictional equivalents]]. A Taxi in New York is likely to be old-fashioned '50s-style Checker models [[note]]The last of which was retired from NYC taxi service in 1999[[/note]].

* Teleporting lower-level players for pay is a common practice in MMOs, but ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' stands out for its players having formed pro-bono "Paragon Taxi" supergroups on several servers, specifically for the purpose of making life easier for lower-level players without access to travel powers.

In RealLife, a common means of transportation in urban environments is to take a taxi. As a result the Taxi makes a cameo in many stories, is a plot point in several of them, and in some may be the whole point of the story. Especially likely to be seen in NewYorkCity or its [[BigApplesauce fictional equivalents]]. A Taxi in New York is likely to be old-fashioned '50s-style Checker models [[hottip:*:The last of which was retired from NYC taxi service in 1999]].

* TheThreeStooges occasionally use one of these. In one short, they take one from wherever in the US they are ... to Egypt. The cabbie (somehow) drives them there.

* ''Series/CashCab''

* ''Collateral''