Wuthering Heights: Directed by Peter Kosminsky. With Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Sophie Ward. A man becomes obsessed with vengeance when his soul mate marries another man.

Heathcliff : I found a lapwing's nest at Peniston Crag when you were away. I waited every day for sight of you - coming over the moors. But you didn't come. So I put a wire mesh over the nest, and all the little ones died when they hatched. Cathy : Why? Heathcliff : Because the parent birds couldn't get near enough to feed them. Cathy : No. Why did you starve them? Heathcliff : Well, …

The 1992 version with Ralph Fiennes is better organized and time-sequenced. This version emphasizes the bitterness, anger and vengefulness of the main character, Heathcliff, as superbly depicted by Fiennes.

The role of Heathcliff opened up doors for Ralph Fiennes to play Amon Goeth in Schindler's List (1993). Steven Spielberg claimed he liked Fiennes for Goeth because of his "dark sexuality."

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Wuthering Heights: Directed by Peter Kosminsky. With Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Sophie Ward. A man becomes obsessed with vengeance when his soul mate marries another man.

Ralph Fiennes' Heathcliff seemed a bit stiff in the opening scenes but picks up steam quickly (warmed, I assume by Cathy's love) and is stunningly savage when the film rushes headlong into its darker sections, reviving the memory of those qualities that made us wake up to his Amon Goeth (Schindler's List).

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While Sir Laurence Olivier and Ralph Fiennes have both done respectable turns as Heathcliff, Timothy Dalton is just glorious. He embodies the character's passion, ambivalence and consuming torment and longing for Cathy splendidly.