North by North West – 1958
Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Maison & Martin Landau; Regie Alfred Hitchcock (136 min).
In Hitchcocks classic Cary Grant is boarding a Checker A 8 in Chicago. Very good movie.

Love with the Proper Stranger - 1963
Starring Steve McQueen & Natalie Wood; Regie: Robert Mulligan (102 min).
Several Checker A 8 and A 10-scenes.

The Last Detail - 1973
Starring Jack Nicholson & Randy Quaid
Directed by Hal Ashby (103 min).
Jack Nicholson in an outstanding tragicomedy about the internal fight of two MP soldiers for the freedom of a young soldier they have to carry to jail. Great scene of an old Boston cab!

Taxi Driver - 1976
Starring Robert de Niro, Harvey Keitel & Jodie Foster
Directed by Martin Scorsese (113 min).
Bob de Niro as the wildest Checker cabbie in movie history! One of the best American movies of the 70s.

Blue Collar - 1978
Starring Richard Pryor & Harvey Keitel; directed by Paul Schrader (114 min).
The mother of all movies, where Checkers are featured. Filmed on location in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Checker cars were produced until 1982. Nice shots of taxi cabs being produced and a really good movie. 

Superman - 1978
Starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando & Glenn Ford; directed by: Richard Donner (151 min.)
The first Superman movie is an epic masterpiece. The comic book comes to live, thanks to a convincing performance by Christopher Reeve as the super hero. New York is the Metropolis of the comic book, therefore there are a couple of nice Checker driving scenes.

Fame - 1980
Starring Irene Cara; directed by Alan Parker (134 min).
Famous musical, filmed in New York City, Checker driving scenes.

Gloria – 1980
Starring Gena Rowlands & John Adames; directed by: John Cassavetes (123 min).
Several Checker driving scenes in New York, one with a Checker of the Yellow Cab Company in Pittsburg.

Superman II - 1980
Starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman & Ned Beatty; directed by: Richard Lester (127 min.)
New York once again features as Metropolis, which results in a couple of Checker scenes. The sequel to Superman is not as good as the first one, but still quite enjoyable.

Escape from New York - 1981
Starring Kurt Russell, Lee van Cleef, Donald Pleasance & Ernest Borgnine; directed by: John Carpenter (99 min)
Ernest Borgnine as a Checker cabbie in a destroyed Manhattan, which was turned into a high security prison.  Famous Checker scene over the mined Brooklyn Bridge. Unfortunately the big yellow car explodes.

Tootsie - 1982
Starring Dustin Hoffman & Geena Davis
Director: Sydney Pollack (119 min).
Dustin Hoffman in the female lead. He plays an unsuccessful actor in New York, who comes to enormous fame by impersonating a woman. Fantastic comedy with several Checker scenes.

D.C. Cab - 1983
Starring Mr T; directed by Joel Schumacher (100 min).
Mr T as a Checker cabby
Nice Checker driving scenes. The movie itself is ok - if you like Mr T. But would you let him into your cab. I wouldn't.

Superman III - 1983
Starring: Christopher Reeve & Richard Pryor; directed by: Richard Lester (125 min.)
Disappointing third part of the Superman saga. At least New York is still Metropolis and has a couple of nice Checker scenes.

Night Patrol - 1984
Starring Linda Blair & Billy Barty
Directed by Jackie Kong (82 min).
Almost unbelievable, but true: a really bad threadbare rip-off of Police Academy. But nice checker taxi driving scenes.

Ghostbusters – 1984
Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver & Rick Moranis; directed by: Ivan Reitmann (107 min).
A Checker taxi is smashed as it tries to avoid the giantic Marshmellow Man.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 1986
Starring Matthew Broderick & Charlie Sheen; directed by John Hughes (98 min).
A cult classic, where a high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school. He "borrows" the Ferrari of one of his school mate's father. It actually looks quite different afterwards. There are also a couple of nice Checker driving scenes in the movie.

Heartburn – 1986
Starring Meryl Streep & Jack Nicholson;
Regie: Mike Nichols (108 Min.).
Several Checker scenes in New York.

Little Shop of Horrors - 1986
Starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene & Steve Martin; directed by: Frank Oz.
Hilarious film adaption of a well-known musical and former B-movie remake. Very nice Checker scenes in the New York studio scenes.

Five Corners - 1987
Starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, John Turturro; directed by Tony Bill (93 min).
The Bronx in the 60s. In the last 10 minutes of the movie the bad guy steals a Checker cab, puts the unconsious Jody Foster on the back seat and runs over an undercover cop in a telephone booth. Nice movie, which supposedly plays in 1964 - the Checker cab in it has the post-1973 bumpers though!

Moonstruck - 1987
Starring: Cher & Nicolas Cage; directed by: Norman Jewison (102 min.)

Superman IV - 1987
Starring Christopher Reeve & Gene Hackman; directed by: Sidney J. Furie (90 min.)

Punchline – 1988
Starring Sally Field & Tom Hanks; directed by: David Seltzer (128 min.).
Checker driving scenes in Manhattan.

Scrooged - 1988
Starring Bill Murray; directed by Richard Donner (101 min).
Bill Murray during christmas, as a really horrible guy, in a scene with a yellow capped ghost cabbie. Very funny movie.

Ghostbusters II - 1989
Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver & Rick Moranis; Regie: Ivan Reitmann (102 min).
Sequel of the the hit movie, again with Checker scenes in New York.

When Harry Met Sally - 1989
Starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan & Carrie Fisher; Regie: Rob Reiner (96 min).
Short Checker appearance in Manhattan.

Mr. Destiny - 1990
Starring James Belushi, Michael Caine, Linda Hamilton & Rene Russo; directed by James Orr (110 min).
Michael Caine as a Checker cabbie from heaven.

Ghost Dad - 1990
Starring Bill Cosby; directed by Sydney Poitier (83 min).
Bill Cosby dies at the beginning of the movie in a spectacular Checker taxi stunt, the rest of the movie is almost unbearable.

Quick Change – 1990
Starring Bill Murray, Geena Davis & Randy Quaid; Regie: Howard Franklin & Bill Murray (89 min).
Bank robbers have problems
with a Checker Cabbie.

V. I. Warshawski - 1991
Starring Kathleen Turner
Directed by Jeff Kanew 89 min).
Kathleen changing here clothes in the back seat of a Checker - wow!

Leaving Normal - 1992
Starring Meg Tilly & Christine Lahti; Regie: Edward Zwick (110 min.).
Two women who have got enough. Not as brilliant as  Thelma & Louise. But Checker enthusiasts will go crazy, when they see the getaway vehicle: a blue Marathon with Airstream trailer!

Boris and Natasha - 1992
Starring John Travolta & John Candy
Directed by Charles Martin Smith (88 min).
Not a translation to film of the cartoons, but a great movie instead. Boris and Natasha are still spies for the mean little country of Pottsylvania. Checker taxi driving scenes.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - 1992
Starring Macaulay Culkin & Joe Pesci; Regie: Chris Columbus (120 min).
Kevin is alone again. This time in  New York, several Checker taxi driving scenes.

American Heart - 1992
Starring Jeff Bridges & Edward Furlong
Directed by Martin Bell (113 min).
The movie featrues a great performance from Jeff Bridges, as a convicted felon whose son wants to have a relationship with him. Intelligent story. A 1981 A-11 painted in Far West cab colours is featured.

Carlito's Way - 1993
Starring Al Pacino & Sean Penn
Directed by Brian de Palma (144 min).
Almost unbelievable - Al on the back seat of our taxi! Very good movie.

Last Action Hero - 1993
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger & F. Murray Abraham
Directed by John Mc Tiernan (122 min).
An action-comedy with Arnie, directed by "Die Hard" maker John Mc Tiernan. An underrated movie, that is actually a lot of fun to watch, especially because it is quoting so many other famous action movies. Arnolds best quote, after a bad got smashed in a big yellow car:"Checker taxi, no airbags".

Nick and Jane - 1997
Starring: Dana Wheeler-Nicholson and James McCalley.
Director: Richard Mauro (96 min).
Real nice romantic comedy with fantastic Checker driving scenes in New York.

Private Parts - 1997
Starring Howard Stern and Robin Qivers as themselves
Directed by Betty Thomas (109 min).
The outrageous auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the wonderfully politically incorrect radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star. In the movie, his side kick obin leaves the NYC studio and hails a cab. She gets in the only checker available. Later she returns - also in a Checker cab.

Suicide Kings – 1997
Starring Christopher Walken & Denis Leary; Regie: Peter O’Fallon (106 Min.).
Super thriller with one particular Checker taxi, always appearing in the background.

54  – 1998
Starring Mike Myers & Salma Hayek; Regie: Mark Christopher (89 Min).
Checker scenes in New York.

Last days of disco - 1998
Starring Chloe Sevigny & Late Beckinsale; directed by Whit Stillman (113 min).
New York in the 80s - Checker driving scenes.

200 Cigarettes - 1999
Starring Christina Ricci; directed by Risa Bramon Garcia (101 min).
New York in 1980/81 - Checker driving scenes,
the movie itself is terribly boring.

Stuart Little - 1999
Starring Geena Davis and the voice of Michael J. Fox; directed by Rob Minkoff (84 min). 
A wonderful movie, not only for kids with a stunning animated mouse and two beautifully restored Checker cabs, which are constantly passing by in the background.

Man on the Moon – 1999
Starring Jim Carrey, Danny De Vito & Courtney Love; directed by Milos Forman (118 min).
A real Checker taxi juwel. Jim Carrey is Andy Kaufman, who, before his early death, played in the TV show "TAXI", aired from 1978 to 1983. The set of the show was rebuild for the movie, including the yellow Checker cab.

The 6th day - 2000
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; directed by: Roger Spottiswoode (123 min.)
Even the future must have an original Checker taxicab in it.
See the original movie cab here:
 

Almost Famous - 2000
Starring Kate Hudson, Billy Crudop & Patrick Fugit; directed by: Cameron Crowe (122 min.)
A Checker feast with more than a dozen taxis lined up in the New York sequence of the movie.

Unbreakable - 2000
Starring Bruce Willis & Samuel L. Jackson; directed by: M. Night Shyamalan (106 min.)
Samuel L. Jackson in a heavily upholstered Marathon.

Catch me if you can - 2003
Starring Leonardo di Caprio, Tom Hanks; directed by:

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