A lush visual feast

Looper recommends '5 Movies To Watch If You Like 2026's Wuthering Heights'.

A somewhat divergent take on the Emily Brontë classic, Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" mixes soapy, anachronistic plot elements into the novel's brew of class issues, generational trauma and forbidden, star-crossed love. The story of rich girl Cathy Earnshaw (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi), the foundling boy her father brings home one day, has been told many times before — but never quite in this florid manner. It's not restrained, and it's anything but civilized — but it is a lush visual feast laden with passion that will liven up an afternoon. 

If you loved this take on "Wuthering Heights," then you're probably going to be intrigued by other frankly-written stories about anachronistic historical heroines, or erotic tales of frustrated love. This list of five films contain heartbreaking tales of lovers who are felled by miscommunication, stubbornness, bad luck and other forms of havoc which ruin — and sometimes resurrect — their sublime faith in togetherness. Whether true love has its say or not, these five films will definitely appeal to anyone who had a good time watching "Wuthering Heights.' 

Jane Eyre

"Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" are both beloved books that have multiple movie adaptations — 47 versions of the former exist to the latter's 30. The 2011 big-screen version of "Jane Eyre" will appeal to people who loved the 2026 edition of "Wuthering Heights" because it knows how to ratchet up the melodrama while leaving you invested in the impossible love story between Jane (Mia Wasikowska) and Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender, in one of his best movies). It's more serious and certainly more genteel than "Wuthering," but no less intense for that sense of reserve.

The film follows Jane as she becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, located deep in the moorland. She is an orphan whose cruel childhood has formed her into a woman of staunch but caring character. Yet she's unprepared for the secrets that Edward harbors, even as she begins to fall in love with him. Ultimately, she must have the courage to run from Edward's vagaries — even if it means shedding their fragile new bond. (Melissa Lemieux)

Comic Book Resources claims that, depite its sucess on streaming, Wuthering Heights 2026 'Is Far From Jacob Elordi's Best Role'.

HBO Max has become the Jacob Elordi channel, first with Euphoria and now with the success of Wuthering Heights. The controversial adaptation of Emily Brontë’s seminal novel was met with division. The period piece was such a wild departure from the book that it could hardly be called an adaptation at all.

While Wuthering Heights is admittedly climbing the streaming charts, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is the best example of Elordi’s work. Already an Oscar nominee, the actor is one to watch. Sadly, his best role to date was one that passed many viewers by in Sofia Coppola’s A24 film, Priscilla. (Carolyn Jenkins)

The People's Movies is giving away two copies of the Blu-ray.

A columnist from Irish Examiner writes about her wedding.

We had two readings from books (I suppose we had a slight literary theme for our wedding). I read from the final chapter of Jane Eyre, which begins with the famous line “Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had, he and I, the parson and the clerk, were alone present.” (Deirdre McArdle)