Chungking Express 1994
- Seonghyeon · W Korea interview
Wong Kar-wai's neon-lit Hong Kong story of two lovesick cops, a late-night snack bar and a lot of California Dreamin'.
Recommended by Cortis • Movies
Movies Recommended by CORTIS
CORTIS, who apparently watch a lot of movies between everything else.
Every film CORTIS have recommended, watched or brought up, in one place. Weverse lives, interviews, a listening party, a record store haul and the references behind the ACAI music video.
The short version
72 titles so far. James and Martin have the most picks: James mostly from his September 16 live, Martin with a full Spider-Man run, Interstellar and Blade Runner. Juhoon leans romantic, from Breakfast at Tiffany’s to the whole Before trilogy. Seonghyeon went Wong Kar-wai and La La Land. MADMAKZ, which is James and Keonho together, brought the thrillers and heist films on their September 10 live.
Tap a name to see only their picks. James and Keonho include what they picked together as MADMAKZ. Each card says who mentioned the film and where it came up.
Midnight in Paris 2011
- Keonho · Listening party, Sep 10 2025
A screenwriter on holiday in Paris discovers that at midnight the city takes him back to the 1920s and the artists he idolises.
Fast & Furious 2009
- Keonho · Listening party, Sep 10 2025
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
The fourth film, where Dom and Brian reunite to take down a drug lord and the series finds its family formula.
Persian Lessons 2020
- Martin · Listening party, Sep 10 2025
In a 1942 prison camp, a Jewish prisoner survives by claiming to be Persian and inventing a language to teach the officer who believes him.
Punch-Drunk Love 2002
- Martin · Listening party, Sep 10 2025
Paul Thomas Anderson turns Adam Sandler into a shy, volatile salesman who falls hard for Emily Watson. Strange and very sweet.
A Rainy Day in New York 2019
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
Two college sweethearts plan a romantic weekend in Manhattan and end up spending it apart, thanks to rain and a lot of detours.
The Devil Wears Prada 2006
- Seonghyeon · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
A journalism graduate becomes assistant to the most feared editor in fashion. Meryl Streep at her iciest.
Dead Poets Society 1989
- Keonho · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
An unconventional English teacher at a strict boys' school tells his students to seize the day, and they take him at his word.
Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
A laundromat owner in the middle of a tax audit gets pulled into a multiverse war. Absurd, loud and devastating about family.
Romeo + Juliet 1996
- Seonghyeon · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
Baz Luhrmann's Shakespeare with guns, Hawaiian shirts and a young Leonardo DiCaprio, with the original verse kept intact.
About Time 2013
- Martin · Listening party, Sep 10 2025
A young man learns the men in his family can travel back in time and uses it first for love, then for everything that matters.
Interstellar 2014
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
Christopher Nolan sends a crew through a wormhole to find humanity a new home while time runs very differently back on Earth.
Coraline 2009
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
A bored girl finds a small door to a better version of her home, where everyone has buttons for eyes. Stop-motion at its creepiest.
La La Land 2016
- Seonghyeon · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
A jazz pianist and an aspiring actress fall in love in Los Angeles while chasing dreams that pull them in different directions.
Twilight 2008
- Keonho · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
A teenager moves to rainy Forks, Washington, and falls for a classmate who turns out to be a vampire. The one that started it all.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2012
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker digs into what happened to his parents while facing the Lizard.
Spider-Man: Homecoming 2017
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
Tom Holland's Peter tries to survive high school while proving to Tony Stark that he is ready for the big leagues.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man and meets spider-people from other dimensions, in animation that changed how superhero films look.
Spider-Man: Far From Home 2019
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
A school trip across Europe turns into a fight with Mysterio, whose illusions are more dangerous than any monster.
Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
Peter asks Doctor Strange to make the world forget who he is and opens the door to villains from other universes.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 3 2025
Miles crosses the multiverse and runs into a society of spider-people with very firm ideas about destiny.
One Million Yen Girl 2008
- Juhoon · MAMA 2025 behind-the-scenes video
After a brush with the law, a young woman moves to a new town every time she saves a million yen. Quiet and bittersweet.
Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961
- Juhoon · MAMA 2025 behind-the-scenes video
Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a New York party girl with a sunglasses-and-pearls act and a lonelier story underneath.
Her 2013
- Juhoon · MAMA 2025 behind-the-scenes video
A lonely letter writer falls in love with his operating system, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Soft colours, sharp questions.
Titanic 1997
- Juhoon · MHz radio behind-the-scenes
James Cameron's romance between a first-class passenger and a penniless artist on the ship's maiden, and final, voyage.
Blade Runner 1982
- Martin · The Puppy Interview
Harrison Ford hunts rogue androids through a rain-soaked Los Angeles that defined what the future looks like on screen.
Trainspotting 1996
- CORTIS · Inspiration for the ACAI music video
Danny Boyle's story of a group of friends in 1990s Edinburgh: fast, funny, grim, and a soundtrack that became a generation's playlist.
Snatch 2000
- James · Weverse post, Dec 22 2025
- CORTIS · Inspiration for the ACAI music video
Guy Ritchie's London crime caper about a stolen diamond, a bare-knuckle boxing match and Brad Pitt's impossible accent.
Marty Supreme 2025
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 27 2025
Josh Safdie's film with Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a table tennis hustler who will do anything to be the best.
Bicentennial Man 1999
- Martin · Weverse live, Dec 27 2025
Robin Williams plays a household robot who spends two hundred years trying to become human.
Backrooms 2026
- Juhoon · Weverse post, Jun 5 2026
- Keonho · Weverse post, Jun 5 2026
- James · Spotted with it, Jun 9 2026
Kane Parsons turns his viral YouTube horror series into an A24 film: a strange doorway in a showroom basement leads somewhere it shouldn't.
Before Sunrise 1995
- Juhoon · Amoeba Music interview, Jun 9 2026
Two strangers meet on a train and spend one night walking and talking their way through Vienna.
Before Sunset 2004
- Juhoon · Amoeba Music interview, Jun 9 2026
Nine years later the same two meet again in Paris, with only the afternoon before his flight home.
Before Midnight 2013
- Juhoon · Amoeba Music interview, Jun 9 2026
Another nine years on, together on holiday in Greece, and the romance has to survive real life.
Jackass: The Movie 2002
- Martin · Amoeba Music interview, Jun 9 2026
Johnny Knoxville and crew take their pranks and stunts to the big screen. Martin picked up the complete movie and TV collection.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998
- James · Amoeba Music interview, Jun 9 2026
Guy Ritchie's first film: four London friends lose a rigged card game and have a week to find half a million pounds.
Vanilla Sky 2001
- Keonho · Amoeba Music interview, Jun 9 2026
Tom Cruise as a wealthy publisher whose life splinters after a car crash, until he can no longer tell dreams from reality.
Beetlejuice 1988
- Martin
Tim Burton's afterlife comedy: a dead couple call in a chaotic bio-exorcist to scare off the new owners of their house.
Ghost in the Shell 1995
- Martin
Mamoru Oshii's anime set in 2029, where a cyborg agent hunts a hacker who can break into people's minds.
NANA 2005
- Martin
Two young women named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo, one a punk singer and one a romantic, and end up roommates.
Se7en 1995
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
David Fincher's dark thriller about two detectives tracking a killer who stages his murders after the seven deadly sins.
Fight Club 1999
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
An insomniac office worker and a soap salesman start an underground fight club that grows into something far bigger.
Inception 2010
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
A thief who steals secrets from dreams is hired to plant an idea instead, several dreams deep.
Sinners 2025
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Ryan Coogler's Mississippi Delta horror with Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers, a juke joint, the blues and vampires.
The Odyssey 2026
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
Christopher Nolan's take on Homer: Odysseus fights gods and monsters on his long journey home after the Trojan War.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
After a breakup, a man has every memory of his ex erased, and changes his mind halfway through the procedure.
Superbad 2007
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
Two best friends try to get alcohol for a party before graduation splits them up. One very long night.
21 Jump Street 2012
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
Two young cops go undercover as high school students to bust a drug ring, with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.
22 Jump Street 2014
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
Same partners, same assignment, now at college, and the film knows exactly how much it is repeating itself.
The Medium 2021
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
Thai found-footage horror about a family of shamans who realise the spirit taking over one of them is not their goddess.
Memento 2000
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
A man who cannot form new memories hunts his wife's killer with notes, Polaroids and tattoos. Told backwards.
Ju-on: The Curse 2000
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
The original Japanese video version of the curse that clings to a Tokyo house and everyone who walks into it.
Obsession 2025
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Curry Barker's horror about a hopeless romantic who breaks the mysterious One Wish Willow to win his crush, and pays for it.
Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger 2026
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
A documentary on the rise of Oasis, from Manchester to stadiums, built around rare footage and the band's 2025 reunion tour.
Tenet 2020
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
Nolan's espionage puzzle where objects and people move backwards through time. Best watched twice.
Ocean's Eleven 2001
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
George Clooney assembles a crew of specialists to rob three Las Vegas casinos in a single night.
Troy 2004
- MADMAKZ (James & Keonho) · Weverse live, Sep 10 2026
Brad Pitt as Achilles in Wolfgang Petersen's big-budget retelling of the Trojan War.
Masters of the Universe 2026
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Travis Knight's live-action He-Man: Prince Adam returns to Eternia after fifteen years to find it ruled by Skeletor.
Peaky Blinders 2013 TV series
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Six seasons of Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby, building a gangster empire in post-war Birmingham. James said it is next on his list.
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man 2026
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
The film that follows the series: Tommy Shelby comes out of self-exile to pull his son out of a Nazi plot during the Second World War.
The Notebook 2004
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
An old man reads a love story to a woman in a care home: a 1940s summer romance between Noah and Allie.
Watchmen 2009
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel about retired, deeply flawed superheroes in an alternate 1985.
Fallen Angels 1995
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Wong Kar-wai's night-time companion to Chungking Express: a hitman, his partner and an ex-convict drifting through Hong Kong.
2 Fast 2 Furious 2003
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Brian O'Conner goes undercover in the Miami street racing scene to take down a money launderer.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 2006
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
An American teenager is sent to Tokyo and pulled into the drift racing scene. The cult favourite of the series.
Cars 2006
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Pixar's hotshot race car Lightning McQueen gets stranded in a forgotten Route 66 town and learns to slow down.
Kung Fu Hustle 2004
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Stephen Chow's cartoonish kung fu comedy about a wannabe gangster and a slum full of hidden masters.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw 2019
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham as two agents who cannot stand each other, forced to team up to stop a cyber-enhanced villain.
Tokyo Mater 2008
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
A Cars Toons short where Mater ends up in Tokyo, challenged to a drift race by a gang leader and his ninjas.
Speed Racer 2008
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
The Wachowskis' candy-coloured live-action version of the racing anime, all neon tracks and impossible jumps.
The Matrix 1999
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
A hacker learns the world is a simulation and joins the resistance. Bullet time, long black coats, a genre reset.
Spy 2015
- James · Weverse live, Sep 16 2026
Melissa McCarthy as a desk-bound CIA analyst who goes undercover in the field for the first time.
Nothing here yet.
What James said on his live
On his Weverse live on September 16, 2026, James went through a long list of films and series, from the Fast & Furious run and Tokyo Drift to Fallen Angels and Kung Fu Hustle, and talked about what he had actually got round to watching.
“I want to watch the Peaky Blinders series too. I’ve watched Watchmen, and what was it… The Notebook. I watched The Notebook too. And I rewatched Sinners, and I watched Obsession as well. Of course I didn’t watch all of them in theaters, but they’re all such interesting movies.”
James, Weverse live, Sep 16 2026 (fan translation)Looking for more? Try the books CORTIS read, their song recommendations or the songs recommended by James on the same live. Only here for James? All of his picks, including the MADMAKZ ones and his favourite anime, are in movies recommended by James from CORTIS.
Where this list comes from: the fan-made Letterboxd list cortis movie recs by haumovie, plus James’s Weverse live on September 16, 2026. Film posters and details from TMDB. This site uses TMDB data but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
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