Director: Emerald Fennell
Cast: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Shazad Latif
Wuthering Heights is a 2026 British-American drama romance film directed by Emerald Fennell, adapting Emily Brontë's iconic nineteenth-century novel. Starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, this visually bold retelling brings the windswept Yorkshire moors and their doomed, consuming love story to a new generation of audiences worldwide.
What is Wuthering Heights about?
On the remote Yorkshire moors of eighteenth-century England, an orphan boy named Heathcliff is taken in by the Earnshaw family at their isolated estate, Wuthering Heights. He and Catherine Earnshaw grow up as inseparable companions, their bond deepening into something fierce and all-consuming. But the rigid class divide of the era separates them before their love can be fully realized — Catherine is pulled toward the respectability and comfort that Heathcliff can never offer, while he is cast out and humiliated. Years pass; Heathcliff returns transformed, wealthy, and burning with a need for retribution. The question is no longer whether love can survive hardship, but whether obsession and wounded pride can destroy everything it once touched.
Cast & crew
Director Emerald Fennell, known for her sharp and provocative filmmaking voice, brings her distinctive sensibility to this adaptation. Margot Robbie plays Catherine Earnshaw, with Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff. The ensemble includes Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Shazad Latif, Martin Clunes, Ewan Mitchell, and Amy Morgan — a cast assembled to give full weight to the novel's emotional extremity.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, Wuthering Heights carries a particular resonance. The themes of social exclusion, unrequited longing, and the destructive power of a love that cannot be openly claimed speak across cultures and generations. Iranian literature and classical Persian poetry have always placed obsessive, transcendent love at their core — from Farhad's devotion to Shirin to Majnun's ruin over Layla. Brontë's Heathcliff and Catherine fit naturally within this tradition of tragic lovers separated by circumstance and pride. The film is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing, making it fully accessible for all members of the family, regardless of English fluency.
Where & how to watch
Wuthering Heights is available on K-Time with both Persian dub and Persian subtitles. Watch on your browser, TV, or phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Start your subscription and cancel anytime.