Taxi - Watch Order: Original Timeline
The Original Timeline covers the core story of Daniel and Émilien's partnership across four films, from their first reluctant team-up through their established friendship as crime-fighting partners. This watch order provides the complete arc of the franchise's original protagonists, set entirely in Marseille with consistent character development and recurring supporting cast.
This timeline excludes Taxi 5 because that film shifts focus to new main characters, making it more of a soft reboot than a direct continuation of Daniel and Émilien's story. The original timeline offers the purest experience of the central relationship that defined the franchise's success and popularity across Europe.
Taxi
In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.
Taxi 3
A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again, Daniel and his super-taxi pitch in.
Taxi 4
Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours. But the wily crook convinces bumbling policeman Emilien he's a lowly Belgian embassy employee who got railroaded by the brilliant master criminal.
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