Movies like Performance.
If Performance.'s mix of rock 'n' roll, rock star and sexuality stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Performance.'s fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Trainspotting
1996 · Directed by Danny Boyle · 94 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: heroin, surrealism, drugs · Also drama and crime
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride.
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Payback
1999 · Directed by Brian Helgeland · 100 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: heroin, drugs, neo-noir · Also drama and crime
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think.
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Enter the Void
2010 · Directed by Gaspar Noé · 161 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: surrealism, drugs, neo-noir
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda.
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The Long Good Friday
1980 · Directed by John Mackenzie · 114 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, neo-noir · Also crime and drama
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the…
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The French Connection
1971 · Directed by William Friedkin · 104 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, heroin · From the same decade (1970s)
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
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Léon: The Professional
1994 · Directed by Luc Besson · 111 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, neo-noir · Also crime and drama
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda.
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The Doors
1991 · Directed by Oliver Stone · 140 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: rock 'n' roll, drugs
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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Kiss of the Dragon
2001 · Directed by Chris Nahon · 98 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, drugs
Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
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Taxi Driver
1976 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 114 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: neo-noir · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1970s)
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
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Menace II Society
1993 · Directed by Albert Hughes · 97 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also drama and crime
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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Pulp Fiction
1994 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 154 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, neo-noir
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper.
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The Salton Sea
2002 · Directed by D.J. Caruso · 103 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: neo-noir · Also crime and drama
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his…