Cime Tempestose (1956) — Italian

Luchino Visconti's never-filmed dream project — he spent years attempting an Italian adaptation before abandoning it — was eventually realized by director Mario Camerini. The 1956 Italian version, set in Yorkshire but filmed in Italy, has a sun-drenched quality that feels wrong and yet oddly appropriate for a story about Mediterranean-intensity emotions set against Northern bleakness. A curiosity for serious Brontë scholars.