Wuthering Heights on screen

Emily Brontë's two-generation novel has often been narrowed for film, changing how much space the younger heirs and the possibility of repair receive.

This map covers the related screen works currently supported by PlotGeeks, rather than every adaptation ever made.

1. Source book | 1847Wuthering Heights
2. 1939 | Feature filmWuthering HeightsAdapted from | William Wyler

   The film covers the novel's earlier chapters and largely removes the second generation that resolves the inheritance conflict.

3. 1992 | Feature filmEmily Brontë's Wuthering HeightsAdapted from | Peter Kosminsky

   This version retains both generations and more of the novel's long cycle of revenge and inheritance.

4. 2011 | Feature filmWuthering HeightsAdapted from | Andrea Arnold

   The adaptation emphasizes landscape, physical hardship, and Heathcliff's outsider status while reducing explanatory dialogue.

5. 2026 | Feature filmWuthering HeightsAdapted from | Emerald Fennell

   The film foregrounds Catherine and Heathcliff's gothic romance and compresses the genealogy carrying revenge into the next generation.

   Compare with the book