Dario Argento
Known for: Directing
Born: September 7, 1940
Place of birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other family members, including an aunt who told him frighting bedtime stories. Argento based most of his thriller movies on childhood trauma, yet his own--according to him--was a normal one. Along with tales spun by his aunt, Argento was impressed by stories from The Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe. Argento started his career writing for various film journal magazines while still in his teens attending a Catholic high school. After graduation, instead of going to college, Argento took a job as a columnist for the Rome daily newspaper "Paese Sera". Inspired by the movies, he later found work as a screenwriter and wrote several screenplays for a number of films, but the most important were his western collaborations, which included Cimitero senza croci (1969) and the Sergio Leone masterpiece C'era una volta il West (1968). He is known in italy as Master of Horror.
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Filmography
127 movies · 10 TV shows, newest first
7.0
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
NR
The Dark Fantastic
2025
NR
Titanus 1904
2024
6.8
Dario Argento: Panico
2024
3.0
Deep Argento
2023
7.0
CVLT
2023
NR
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
2023
7.4
Call My Agent: Italy
2023
3.0
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022
NR
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022
NR
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022
7.4
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
4.8
She Will
2022
4.7
Dark Glasses
2022
8.3
Ennio
2022
9.5
We Are Cinema
2021
7.1
Vortex
2021
9.2
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021NR
Lui è peggio di me
2021
7.0
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
7.5
The Last Movie Painter
2020NR
The Grand Opening
2019
7.3
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019
5.0
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
6.9
All the Colors of Giallo
2019
7.1
Friedkin Uncut
2018
6.9
Suspiria
2018
7.5
Konbini Vidéo Club
2018
NR
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
5.8
Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
2018
6.8
Cult of Terror
20178.0
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017
6.0
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
6.0
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
NR
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
5.1
Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016
6.6
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016
7.0
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015
7.3
Macbeth
2015
NR
Du sang sur la neige
2013
3.5
Dracula 3D
2012
7.4
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
9.5
Close Up
20126.5
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
2012
5.7
Masks
2011
5.0
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
20117.0
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
2011
5.0
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010NR
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2010
4.2
Giallo
2010
NR
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
20094.0
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2008NR
A Dark Fairy Tale
2008
4.5
The Mother of Tears
2007
NR
Linee d'ombra
2007NR
Director: Dario Argento
2007NR
Hanging Shadows
2007
5.6
Pelts
2006NR
Tempus fugit
2006
6.0
Jenifer
2005
7.1
Masters of Horror
20059.0
Out of the Shadows
2005
6.8
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005
5.2
Do You Like Hitchcock?
2005
NR
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004
8.2
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
2004
6.5
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
7.0
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
4.4
The Card Player
20048.5
Non risponde più
20044.0
Western all'italiana
20047.0
Two Masters' Eyes
2003
6.0
Italian Kings Of B
2003
7.8
Masters of Horror
2002
6.4
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
6.8
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
2001
7.0
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
20018.0
Tales Of The Cat
2001
6.8
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
6.1
Sleepless
2001
4.7
Scarlet Diva
2000
6.0
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999
4.7
The Phantom of the Opera
19988.0
Homo Cinematographicus
1998
5.7
The Wax Mask
1997
7.5
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997
5.0
Bits & Pieces
1996
5.4
The Stendhal Syndrome
1996
5.9
DeGenerazione
1994
5.8
Trauma
1993
6.2
Innocent Blood
1992
4.3
The King of Ads
1991
9.0
Fear in the Dark
1991
6.2
The Sect
1991
7.1
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991
6.1
Two Evil Eyes
1990
6.1
The Church
1989
8.0
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989
6.7
Opera
1987
8.3
Night Shift
1987
NR
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
1987
6.1
Demons 2
1986
6.6
Demons
1985
6.8
Phenomena
1985
6.9
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985
9.0
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
6.8
Tenebre
1982
6.6
Inferno
1980
7.5
Dawn of the Dead
1978
7.5
Suspiria
1977
NR
Domenica In
1976
7.7
Deep Red
1975
6.8
Door Into Darkness
1973
5.9
The Five Days
1973
3.5
Man Called Amen
1972
6.5
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1971
6.7
The Cat o' Nine Tails
1971
7.1
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970
7.5
Season of the Senses
1969
6.6
The 5-Man Army
1969
5.9
Battle of the Commandos
1969
6.4
Possibility Zero
1969
6.2
Love Circle
1969
6.3
Cemetery without Crosses
1969
8.3
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
4.9
The Sexual Revolution
1968
5.7
Commandos
1968
9.0
Commandments for a Gangster
1968
6.0
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
1968
3.5
Every Man Is My Enemy
1967
6.1
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966
NR
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
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The Sandman
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Untitled Dario Argento / Isabelle Huppert Project
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NR
Carne della mia carne
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The Girl with Crystal Eyes
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The Black Velvet Mask
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