Wuthering Heights has been one of the most anticipated films of the year.
Directed and written by Emerald Fennell, the 2026 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel stars Margot Robbie as Catherine “Cathy” Earnshaw and Jacob Elordias Heathcliff.
The film hit theaters on 13 February 2026 and has already seen success at the box office, debuting at number one with approximately $34.8 million domestically and a global total of around $76.8 million during its opening weekend.
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However, Wuthering Heights has received mixed reviews already. A majority of viewers are complaining of how close to Brontë’s novel it really is.
In this haunting take on the classic, Catherine and Heathcliff fall hopelessly in love against the backdrop of the windswept Yorkshire moors.
The film is filled with intense emotions, tragic romance, and beautiful cinematography.
If you loved watching Wuthering Heights, you’ll want to see these 10 films just like it.
Jane Eyre (2011)
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, this adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel stars Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. Released in 2011, it’s about Jane (Mia Wasikowska), a governess who falls in love with her employer, Rochester (Michael Fassbender). But a secret from his past threatens their happiness.
Atonement (2007)
Directed by Joe Wright and based on Ian McEwan’s novel, this World War II drama is about how one false accusation changes multiple lives forever. Notable for its five-minute continuous tracking shot on the Dunkirk beach, the film earned multiple Academy Award nominations and won for Best Original Score.
Crimson Peak (2015)
A lavish gothic romance, Crimson Peak is directed by Guillermo del Toro. Set in Victorian England, Crimson Peak follows an aspiring writer (Mia Wasikowska) who moves to a remote Gothic mansion in Cumberland with her new husband (Tom Hiddleston) and his sister (Jessica Chastain). There, she uncovers the dark mystery behind the ghostly visions haunting her new home.
Rebecca (1940)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this Best Picture Academy Award winner adapts Daphne du Maurier’s novel into a tale of jealousy and identity. Set at the imposing Manderley estate, the story centers on a young bride haunted by the lingering presence of her husband’s first wife.
Bright Star (2009)
Written and directed by Jane Campion, Bright Star is It is based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats (played by Ben Whishaw) and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish).
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Based on the 1874 novel by Thomas Hardy, this adaptation follows Bathsheba Everdene (played by Carey Mulligan), an intelligent and fiercely independent woman who inherits her uncle’s farm in rural Victorian England and resolves to run it herself. Meanwhile, she also navigates three very different suitors.
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Directed by Jim Jarmusch, this unconventional vampire romance drifts through Tangier and Detroit, meditating on art, time, and existential exhaustion. Rather than focusing on action, it portrays immortality as melancholic endurance, presenting love as a centuries-long intellectual and emotional partnership.
Bones and All (2022)
This romantic horror road film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, explores first love between two outsiders bound by a disturbing hunger, set across 1980s America. It stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet.
The Illusionist (2006)
Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, the story follows Eisenheim (played by Edward Norton), a gifted stage magician who uses his seemingly supernatural performances to rekindle a forbidden romance with Duchess Sophie von Teschen(Jessica Biel), a noblewoman engaged to the ruthless Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell).
The English Patient (1996)
Directed by Anthony Minghella, this sweeping World War II epic centers on a critically burned, amnesiac man known as Count László de Almásy (Ralph Fiennes), who recounts his tragic affair with the married Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas). Their doomed romance unfolds through memories as Canadian nurse Hana (Juliette Binoche) cares for him in an abandoned Italian monastery, while parallel stories of war, betrayal, and loss ripple across North Africa and Italy.