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'''Taxi''' is a French action comedy movie from 1998 written and produced by [[Luc Besson]] and the first of a series of five (as of 2018). The main protagonists are Daniel Morales (Samy Naceri), a [[Badass Driver]] from Marseilles who quits his job as the city's fastest pizza delivery boy to become the city's fastest taxi driver, and Emilien Coutant-Kerbalec (Frédéric Diefenthal), an eager but ditzy cop who has been trying and failing to get a driver's license for a long time—he only manages to get Daniel's license after the latter drove him through Marseilles at 217km/h, not knowing that the man on the backseat of his [[Cool Car|tuned Peugeot 406]] is a cop. They end up as a team chasing a German gang of bank robbers because Daniel knows more about fast cars than Emilien and can drive him around, and because he needs his license back. Other notable characters in the movie are Daniel's friend Lilly Bertineau ([[Marion Cotillard]]) who tries quite hard to establish a love relationship with him (and who turns out to be the daughter of an army General in the second movie), [[Action Girl]] and German exchange cop Petra (Emma Sjöberg) for whom Emilien out of all people has the hots, and bumbling, chaotic Commissaire Gibert (Bernard Farcy) whose missions always end up in chaos.