Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli
Rosaria Parondi (Katina Paxinou), an impoverished Italian mother, moves to Milan with her close-knit family of five sons to find opportunity in the big city.
A heated rivalry begins when two of Rosaria's boys - Rocco (Alain Delon) and Simone (Renato Salvatori) - fall for Nadia (Annie Girardot), a beautiful sex worker with whom each has an affair.
As soft-spoken Rocco and brutal Simone both pursue Nadia in their own way, tension between them threatens to tear the family apart. Visconti has made a film with a sheer passion that makes most current filmmaking look feeble.
It is a richly textured and profoundly affecting drama, resoundingly alive with characters, and a leader in post-WWII Italian cinema.