Old man hires a cab driver to drive him to a mountain to commit suicide

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

Simon, a depressed hitman, tries to hang himself in a forest. Bernard, a young man with no history who passes by by chance, saves him. The old man, sick, cannot drive without risking an accident. Claiming to be a rodent controler, he hires Bernard to take him to Cap d'Agde. Simon, lonely and cynical, is forced to travel in the company of this talkative and confusingly optimistic driver.

Against his better judgement a hearse driver gives a young, charismatic man a lift to the coast in this compelling odd couple/road movie.

A taxi driver reflects on his past as he falls off a cliff.

A lonely 80 year old man decides to call a male escort to his home in a last-stitch effort to live the life he was too scared to live.

Telling a life of a mediocrity who earns bread for his family by driving a cab. The comical aspect is the bohemian life of the protagonist who besides being aged and poor succeeds in affecting and dominating other people and having relationship with other women.

Fact-based story about a Pasadena cab driver who picks up what he believes is a routine fare, an elderly woman on her way to a funeral. However, the wealthy woman is soon is insisting that the cabbie drive her on a cross-country trip that ends up entailing 3100 miles and ending in Vancouver. Initially contentious, the two eventually find a reluctant friendship growing.