26 Best Movies Like High Fidelity ...

26 Best Movies Like High Fidelity ...

If you liked this film , you will probably love these too! In this selection we highlight some of the best films that share a very similar premise to '', and are worth checking out.

1. Empire Records (1995)

1h 30m Music Comedy Drama

The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.

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2. Singles (1992)

1h 39m Comedy Drama Romance

Romantic comedy about six of Seattle's young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city's ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character's progress through the singles scene are intriguing and often very funny, and the soundtrack is a grunge fanatic's dream, with the likes of Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Mudhoney.

3. Say Anything... (1989)

1h 40m Comedy Drama Romance

A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.

4. Chasing Amy (1997)

1h 54m Comedy Drama Romance

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.

5. Liberal Arts (2012)

1h 37m Romance Comedy Drama

Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to speak at his retirement dinner, Jesse jumps at the chance. He is prepared for the nostalgia of the dining halls and dorm rooms, the parties and poetry seminars; what he doesn’t see coming is Zibby – a beautiful, precocious, classical-music-loving sophomore. Zibby awakens scary, exciting, long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection that Jesse thought he had buried forever.

6. Breaking Up (1997)

1h 30m Drama Romance

An aloof, struggling food photographer thinks he has found true love with a fiery grade-school teacher. At first, the relationship is all wine and roses, but as they realize they have little in common besides great sex, the romance wanes, and they struggle through a succession of break-ups and reunions as they try to work things out.

7. The Good Night (2007)

1h 33m Comedy Drama Romance Fantasy Music

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.

8. Waiting to Exhale (1995)

2h 7m Comedy Drama Romance

Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.

9. Love & Other Drugs (2010)

50m Crime Drama

Modern-day underworld characters Nidge and John Boy wrestle for control of Dublin's illicit drug trade in this forceful crime drama.

10. Love Actually (2003)

2h 15m Comedy Romance Drama

'Love Actually' follows the lives of eight very different couples dealing with their love lives, in various loosely and interrelated tales, all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

11. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

2h 6m Comedy Drama Romance

Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.

12. Pushing Tin (1999)

2h 4m Comedy Drama

Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.

13. Brown Sugar (2002)

1h 49m Comedy Romance

Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory.

14. Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

1h 35m Comedy Drama Music

A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.

15. Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)

1h 31m Comedy Drama Romance

Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?

16. She&`s Having a Baby (1988)

17. Ten Inch Hero (2007)

1h 37m Comedy Drama Romance

Four friends search for love and happiness while working at a California sandwich shop.

18. The Hottest State (2006)

1h 57m Music Drama Romance

A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

19. About Last Night... (1986)

1h 53m Comedy Drama Romance

A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.

20. 200 Cigarettes (1999)

1h 41m Comedy Drama Romance

It's New York City in 1981, and various twentysomethings are converging on a New Year's Eve party.

21. He Said, She Said (1991)

1h 55m Comedy Drama Romance

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.

22. The Sure Thing (1985)

1h 40m Comedy Drama Romance

Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's nerves but, as time passes, they find their divergent natures complement each other. Now they need to realize what they've already found before it's too late.

23. Beautiful Girls (1996)

1h 52m Comedy Drama Romance

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.

24. Fever Pitch (1997)

1h 42m Comedy Romance

A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.

25. The Groomsmen (2006)

1h 38m Comedy Romance

Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. Brother Jimbo, cousin Mike, and his pals fill the reunion with drinking, boys-will-be-boys antics and a few unexpected personal confessions. But, when the bonding devolves into accusations and regret, Paulie has to decide whether he's ready to tie the knot and take this big step into adulthood.

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