

Night on Earth
Five taxis. Five cities. One night.
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
TMDB
7.5/10
1,100 votes
IMDb
7.6/10
71,852 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
77%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
68/100
Metascore
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3.5M
- Box office
- $2,015,810
- Language
- French
- helsinki, finland
- new york city
- taxi
- metropolis
- paris, france
- rome, italy
- heart attack
- megacity
- taxi driver
- german democratic republic
- pastor
- passenger
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Awards & recognition
- Total wins
- 1
- Total nominations
- 1
- 1 win
- 1 nomination total
Awards data for Night on Earth provided by OMDb.
Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York Film Festival4 Oct 1991
- Theatrical (limited)RNew York City, New York2 May 1992
- PhysicalRVHS2 Dec 1992
- PhysicalRCriterion Blu-ray & DVD9 Apr 2019
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1531 Jul 1992
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM13 Aug 1992
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1626 Mar 1992
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical15+29 Apr 1993
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical13 Mar 1992
FinlandFI
- TheatricalS24 Jan 1992
- TVS28 Dec 1994
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP18 Dec 1991
- PhysicalTPDVD3 May 2001
- Theatrical (limited)TPre-release3 Jul 2019
- Digital / OTTTP10 May 2020
- Digital / OTTTPPrime Video10 Jan 2022
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1612 Dec 1991
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical (limited)IIBDead Time: Early Jarmusch22 Jun 2026
HungaryHU
- Theatrical27 Dec 1992
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT16 Oct 1992
Frequently asked questions
Night on Earth was released on 12 December 1991.
- F4/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
12/13/2023
**In short, cities at night are beautiful, and taxi drivers generally drive poorly.** This film focuses on five short stories that happened at almost the same time and on the same night to five taxi drivers in five cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. Directed and written by Jim Jarmusch, it is not a pretentious film, quite the opposite, and does what films should do: entertain us with five goo…
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