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10 Best Movies Like Performance

If you loved Performance, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Sharky's Machine

Sharky's Machine

1981★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Performance for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence whil...

#2
Trainspotting

Trainspotting

1996★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Performance for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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...

#3
Strange Days

Strange Days

1995★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Performance for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he sta...

#4
A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

1971★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Performance for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the mu...

#5
Enter the Void

Enter the Void

2010★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Performance for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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, Lind...

#6
Rise of the Footsoldier

Rise of the Footsoldier

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Performance for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of crimi...

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