
Birthday:
07-30-1818
Deathday:
12-19-1848 (30 years)
Birthplace:
Thornton, England
Biography
Emily Jane Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /-teɪ/; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer Ellis and Acton Bell, with her poems regarded as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.
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Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1939 star_border 7.2
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The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event2011 star_border 5.9
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Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the streets of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, an isolated farm, develops over the years an insane passion for Cathy, his foster sister, a sick obsession destined to end tragically.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1954 star_border 6
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Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event2003 star_border 5.1
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A musical version of the classic story set in the modern day.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1962 star_border 10
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Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1967 star_border 6
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Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1948
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Tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1953
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Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
Undying Love
Novel
event1966 star_border 7
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Upon his return as a millionaire, Ali, with the repression complex he suffered years ago, spreads fear and death around him and takes brutal revenge on the woman he loves.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1970 star_border 6.2
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A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.
Wuthering Heights
Writer
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As Cathy Linton nears death, she finds herself in a loop of memories while coming to terms with the truth of the world she’s lived and loved in.
Wuthering High
Novel
event2015 star_border 5.3
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An updated 21st century version of the Emily Bronte novel set in modern day Malibu, California where the wealthy Earnshaw family adopts Heath, a troubled teenager. The Earnshaws teenage daughter, Cathy, falls madly in love with him, embittering her rich boyfriend, Eddie, and the rest of their exclusive, upscale community. Wrapped up in her exciting fling, Cathy is blind to the dangerous side of Heath until it's too late.
The Promise
Novel
event2007 star_border 3.5
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Daniel and Andrea grew up in the same home and have been closer than real brothers and sisters ever since. But her father's goodwill to take in Daniel and bring him up does not sit well with her real older brother, who retaliates one day and kicks Daniel out. But by this time, nothing can come between the deeply in love Andrea and Daniel anymore--until the rich family on whose hacienda they've been working all these years come back. Andrea catches the eye of the rich son, while the daughter fancies Daniel, too. This will set in motion a series of events that will test how deep the two's love goes.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1985 star_border 6.9
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In this adaptation of Wuthering Heights set in the south of France in the 1930s, Guillaume wars with his sister Catherine over her affections for their farmhand Roch, of whom he is jealous. A romantic choice, destined for tragic results.
Heathcliff
Novel
event1999 star_border 7.5
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The Musical adaptation of Emily Bronte's Classic novel "Wuthering Heights". When his childhood love abandons him for a man of higher social rank, Heathcliff seeks vengeance.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1998 star_border 6.8
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Gipsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by a god-fearing landowner in northern England and grows up as the soul-mate of the daughter, Cathy Earnshaw. When father dies, stern son Hindley returns and bans Heathcliffe to the stables; when they spy upon their upper class neighbors, Edgar Linton sends the dogs upon them and chases Heath but starts an affair -love comes only from him- with her. When Hindley's socialite wife Frances dies in childbirth, he is completely embittered, becomes a drunk unable to care for his son Hareton and has to sell Wuthering Hights- to Heathcliffe. After a misunderstanding Cathy marries Linton, Heath retorts by a loveless match with his sister. Even Cathy's death doesn't stop the cycle of spite, grief and harm so it poisons the next generation's lives as well while she keeps haunting Heathcliffe
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event2022 star_border 3.7
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A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.
Love Lingers On
Novel
event1957
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Tso Kea was adroit in adapting film and literary classics from the West, organically transplanting stories and characters onto Chinese soil and nurturing them to glorious fruition. Love Lingers On is based on the gothic novel Wuthering Heights and Tso shepherds Emily Brontë's tale of profound passion, thwarted love and bitter vengefulness with a perfect balance of broad narrative strokes and delicate orchestration of mise-enscene. He wisely concentrates on the lead characters' simmering mental troubles, greatly enhanced by stars Cheung Ying and Mui Yee, who overcome glaring age differences with their characters to bring life to this saga of vivid emotions.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1992 star_border 6.6
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Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
new_releases Release: February 12, 2026
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1988 star_border 6.2
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Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess.
Wuthering Heights I
Novel
event2019
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Based on the Emily Brontë classic novel, "Wuthering Heigts", tells the story of a rebellious and even savage young man arrives in La Borrasca to change the life of the owners of this great mansion, but especially Catherine's, among them is born a love that goes beyond death, to the point of unleashing the madness of Alejandro when he sees his beloved buried in his tomb and decides to remove it so that it follows to its side.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1958
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Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation. [Originally aired on CBS's DuPont Show of the Month.]
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1920
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The first screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's book about star cross'd lovers who demolish themselves and everyone around them with their self-destructive love.
Arzoo
Story
event1950 star_border 5
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Badal is mistakenly presumed to be dead. Kamini, his love, is heartbroken and is married off to Thakur. Badal returns and not knowing the truth, is filled with vengeance for Kamini.
Wuthering Heights
Novel
event1997 star_border 7
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Takarazuka Snow Troupe's 1997 stage adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
Wuthering Heights
Novel (2 ep.)
event2004 star_border 8.4
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New adaptation of Emily Brontë's famous novel, a story of love and uncontrollable passion, exploring the deepest feelings to the extremes to which love can lead us, especially when there are many obstacles to overcome. A Yorkshire melancholy story about a love stronger than death.
Wuthering Heights
Novel (2 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7
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Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
Sparkhouse
Novel (3 ep.)
event2002 star_border 7.6
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The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
Wuthering Heights
Novel (5 ep.)
event1978 star_border 5
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A five-part adapation of the infamous book, which stars Ken Hutchison and Kay Adshead as tortured lovers Heathcliff and Cathy.
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