High Fidelity vs The Stories
The Stories has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 7.1/10 for High Fidelity). The Stories is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 53m. High Fidelity is the older of the two (2000 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
High Fidelity
The Stories| High Fidelity | The Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.1/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 53m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Music |
| Country | – | Egypt |
| Director | Stephen Frears | Abu Bakr Shawky |
| Main cast | Joelle Carter, Tim Robbins, Lili Taylor, John Cusack, Iben Hjejle | Nelly Karim, Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Amr Abed, Ahmed Kamal |
Synopsis
High Fidelity
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".
The Stories
The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.
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