Classics (Austen/Brontë/Dickens) which film or TV adaptations are best?

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DD is 13 (yr 9) and covered A Christmas Carol at school last term, when she wanted to watch an adaptation on screen I recommended the very best which,of course, is The Muppets. She's now asking about Wuthering Heights but I've no idea which version to suggest? There's a few on Netflix and Prime.
She's a hopeless romantic and I think she would enjoy the Brontë stories too so I'd welcome opinions on the best adaptations of Sense and Sensibility etc too as there are so many! She's a lapsed reader and Wuthering Heights has sparked her interest again (I suspect it's all the passion and young love) so I'm hoping watching some of these will help her turn to the books (optimistic).

The Muppets Christmas Carol is great, but I’d also highly recommend the Alastair Sim version which is more traditional.

Other good Dickens adaptions include David Lean’s Great Expectations and Oliver Twist.

I love the Orson Welles version of Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

For Jane Austen - BBC Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth) and Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility.

I haven’t seen any of the Wuthering Heights adaptions.

Also, BBC adaptions of all of the classics are in the main reliable and well made.

Bleak House. The 2008(?) adaptation with Gillian Anderson is good, in spite of irritating camera work at times.

Doubt I’ll be the last to recommend the BBC 1990s version of Pride and Prejudice! Plenty of detail, great casting. I also like the Sense and Sensibility from that time (although Eleanor Thompson was too old for her role I’ll overlook it because Greg Wise is divine in it).
Also a bit retro but if she likes period drama, the Hitcock version of Rebecca is one of my favourite adaptations, very true to the book.

Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility is excellent.

Laurence Olivier Pride and Prejudice should be avoided at all costs.

The only good version of Wuthering Heights is Kate Bush, but the runner up is the 1970 Timothy Dalton version in which Hindley gives Heathcliff the murdering he so richly deserves half way through the book.

Doubt I’ll be the last to recommend the BBC 1990s version of Pride and Prejudice

Because it is perfect :)

It's perfection.

@GaiaWise

The Muppets Christmas Carol is great, but I’d also highly recommend the Alastair Sim version which is more traditional.

Other good Dickens adaptions include David Lean’s Great Expectations and Oliver Twist.

I love the Orson Welles version of Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

For Jane Austen - BBC Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth) and Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility.

I haven’t seen any of the Wuthering Heights adaptions.

Also, BBC adaptions of all of the classics are in the main reliable and well made.

These are exactly the right answers. Love the Joan Fontaine/Orson Welles version of Hane Eyre so much; it really captured the gothic drama of the thing, while modern versions have almost Austenised it.

I’m a Wuthering Heights hater, so have never sought out adaptations but the consensus seems to be that it’s virtually unfilmable.

A lifelong fan of Jane Austen here, and I've loved the Andrew Davies versions of Pride & Prejudice (Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle), and TV series of Sense & Sensibility (2008 version); also 2007 film of Persuasion.

The BBC adaptations of Cranford are lovely.
My daughter and I alternate between Cranford and the unbeatable Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle Pride and Prejudice as our xmas treat viewing.

North and South with Richard Armitage [*sigh, yearn], also BBC from the early 2000s is very good, too.

I like the Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility, and the film version of Persuasion with Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones is lovely too.
The most recent Emma with Anya Taylor-Joy is a good one.

Ooh Emma, is a good shout as she loves Clueless Also Rebecca when done properly should have that growing creepiness that I think she will enjoy.

These are great suggestions, please keep them coming

The best version of Persuasion is the tv adaptation with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds, imo. Excellent cast and very true to the book. Think it was C4. It was on YouTube a while ago.

And yes to the David Lean Great Expectations.

There is no really good film version of Wuthering Heights, they all try and tone it down and cut out the second half of the book. But I have a soft spot for the Laurence Olivier/Merle Oberon version from the 1930s because it’s so old fashioned and romantic.

There’s a newer version with Tom Hardy from ten years ago that might be available somewhere, ITV Hub maybe? Tom Hardy as Heathcliff is not nearly as good as it should be though.

1995 Persusasion with Amanda Root

...Persuasion!!

Anna Taylor-Joy Emma has just come to Netflix

And if you want more Dickens, there was a film of A Tale of Two Cities with Dirk Bogarde as Sidney Carton.

Persuasion with Amanda Root is great, so is 1995 Pride and prejudice.

Middlemarch, which was done by a lot of the same team as Pride and Prejudice is on iplayer, and explains my long, unswerving passion for Rufus Sewell.

Also Tenant of Wildfell Hall with Toby Stephens and North and South with Richard Armitage.

Once she’s read the Jane Austens then Lost in Austen with Jemima Rooper in it is brilliant

Oh and Wives and Daughters with Justine Waddell and Tom Hollander

Just seen that the Tom Hardy Wuthering Heights is on Prime now!

@DameAlyson

The best version of Persuasion is the tv adaptation with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds, imo. Excellent cast and very true to the book. Think it was C4. It was on YouTube a while ago.

And yes to the David Lean Great Expectations.

Yes, to this adaptation of Persuasion. It's my favorite Jane Austen adaptation of all of them. Ciaran Hinds is the definitive Captain Wentworth,

Big yes to Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds' version of Persuasion. It is sooo good. She pierces his soul godammit.

And the BBC P&P. Have seen that countless times.

@PlinkPlankPlunk

Once she’s read the Jane Austens then Lost in Austen with Jemima Rooper in it is brilliant

Lost in Austen is a hoot!

I'd also recommend this if you're looking at Jane Eyre.

Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785783017/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_80YDBGCY28BRJHXSQWEH?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Rochester is a shit, he really is, but I thought he was terribly romantic as a teenager.