Anyone know the title of a film were Mick Jagger played a rock star with a gangster living in his basement?

Question

The gangster was on the run from the mafia, mick was on copious amounts of acid and being tended to by two french lesbians. Damn good film

Answer 1

Film was "performance"

Answer 2

Yes it was called performance here is some info:

Directed by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell
Screenplay by Donald Cammell
Cinematography by Nicolas Roeg
Music by Jack Nitzsche
Produced by Donald Cammell & Sanford Lieberson


Cast

James Fox (I) . . . Chas
Mick Jagger. . . Turner
Anita Pallenberg. . . Pherber
Michèle Breton. . . Lucy
Ann Sidney. . . Dana
John Bindon. . . Moody
Stanley Meadows. . . Rosebloom
Allan Cuthbertson. . . The lawyer
Anthony Morton . . . Dennis
Johnny Shannon. . . Harry Flowers
Anthony Valentine. . . Joey Maddocks
Kenneth Colley. . . Tony Farrell
John Sterland. . . The Chauffeur

Synopsis
According to the Internet Movie Database:

Visually compelling and disturbing look at two diverse sides of 1960s London; the criminal underworld and hippie culture, respectively symbolised by Fox’s Chas, the wayward gangster, and Jagger’s Turner, a semi-retired bisexual rock musician.

It’s Chas’ world we are first introduced to during a highly charged furiously paced scene of gangland violence. It soon becomes clear to us that he is not only an outcast to society but also dangerously individual within his own mob circle. On the run from both the law and the mob he takes refuge in a Notting Hill home which he finds is occupied by Turner, his junkie girlfriend, Pherber, and her French lover, Lucy. Tunrer becomes infatuated with Chas’ violent charisma and his “vital energy” he himself feels he has lost.

As the title suggests the film is all about performances. Chas is initiated into Turner’s underground world of drug experimentation and gender bending. Turner’s name in itself is symbolic of the way he tries to play with and turn Chas’ psyche around. It is ultimately the “performance” of Turner which brings the two worlds together, as he poses as Chas’ mobster boss, Harry Flowers, in a scene shot similarly to a modern day music video.

Answer 3

Performance (1970) - Chas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by the mysterious Mr. Turner, a one-time rock superstar, who is looking for the right spark to rekindle his faded talent.

Answer 4

Performance

Answer 5

Performance. Strange film, can't decide if I like it or not although visually it's stunning to look at and Ilove that era Stones. There was some funny things happened after it, James Fox never made another film for ten years, the guy who wrote it ended up taking his own life and left wing urban guerillas the Angry Brigade lived in the block where it was filmed.

Answer 6

Performance, (1970, 105 minutes) Warner Studios, 1992.

Directed by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell
Screenplay by Donald Cammell
Cinematography by Nicolas Roeg
Music by Jack Nitzsche
Produced by Donald Cammell & Sanford Lieberson

Cast

James Fox (I) . . . Chas
Mick Jagger. . . Turner
Anita Pallenberg. . . Pherber
Michèle Breton. . . Lucy
Ann Sidney. . . Dana
John Bindon. . . Moody
Stanley Meadows. . . Rosebloom
Allan Cuthbertson. . . The lawyer
Anthony Morton . . . Dennis
Johnny Shannon. . . Harry Flowers
Anthony Valentine. . . Joey Maddocks
Kenneth Colley. . . Tony Farrell
John Sterland. . . The Chauffeur

Synopsis
According to the Internet Movie Database:

Visually compelling and disturbing look at two diverse sides of 1960s London; the criminal underworld and hippie culture, respectively symbolised by Fox’s Chas, the wayward gangster, and Jagger’s Turner, a semi-retired bisexual rock musician.

It’s Chas’ world we are first introduced to during a highly charged furiously paced scene of gangland violence. It soon becomes clear to us that he is not only an outcast to society but also dangerously individual within his own mob circle. On the run from both the law and the mob he takes refuge in a Notting Hill home which he finds is occupied by Turner, his junkie girlfriend, Pherber, and her French lover, Lucy. Tunrer becomes infatuated with Chas’ violent charisma and his “vital energy” he himself feels he has lost.

As the title suggests the film is all about performances. Chas is initiated into Turner’s underground world of drug experimentation and gender bending. Turner’s name in itself is symbolic of the way he tries to play with and turn Chas’ psyche around. It is ultimately the “performance” of Turner which brings the two worlds together, as he poses as Chas’ mobster boss, Harry Flowers, in a scene shot similarly to a modern day music video.

Some critics had felt the film lost its way once Chas entered Turner’s world. Yet surely such disorientation is indicative of how the film successfully explores Chas’ own uneasiness in confronting his own subconscious in an alien atmosphere. The film is full of visual flourishes as one might expect from Roeg, who had been cinemaphotographer on films such as Fahrenheit 451. Fox is mesmerising playing out the evolving identities of Chas, whilst Jagger’s persona is exhibited to its full potential. Roeg was again to explore the theme of alienation using a rock star (this time David Bowie) in a more literal sense in his landmark science fiction film The Man Who Fell To Earth.

Answer 7

its called 'Performance' and it's a british film made in 1960's by Nicholas Roeg. I had to study it for Film Studies and it is the wierdest film of it's time, to my lecturer it was genius but to me it was edited so badly it was a mess!

Answer 8

It had Edward Fox in also who stole the film - I think it was Performance

Answer 9

Performance. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066214/

Answer 10

Ned Kelly I think