14. Performance
Warner Bros
The Drugs: Alcohol, marijuana, amanita muscaria If Roger Corman's The Trip appears comes across today as a real throwback to a bygone era, then Performance - while certainly of its time, made as it was in 1970, just three years later - has certainly fared considerably better. Much of this is down to Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg's wonderfully inventive, experimental visual style, which remains as impressive today as at the time of its release. Not that all critics at the time appreciated the ingenuity which went into Performance - like many drugs movies now considered to be cult classics, it was lambasted as an ugly piece of work which John Simon labeled "indescribably sleazy". This might be true of the London underworld from which Chas Devlin (James Fox) runs away from out of fear for his life, but the film itself is deceptively sophisticated, hallucinatory deconstruction of identity and the multiple roles people play in life. Mick Jagger's performance as the drug-addled rock star Devlin hooks up with is still his finest.