Dario Argento
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.
30 directing credits · 85 acting credits
Directing · 30
Masters of Horror
2005
Suspiria
1977
Deep Red
1975
Door Into Darkness
1973
Phenomena
1985
Inferno
1980
Tenebre
1982
Opera
1987
Dark Glasses
2022
The Stendhal Syndrome
1996
Trauma
1993
The Cat o' Nine Tails
1971
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970
Dracula 3D
2012
Two Evil Eyes
1990
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1971
Sleepless
2001
The Phantom of the Opera
1998
Jenifer
2005
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
1987
The Mother of Tears
2007
Giallo
2010
The Card Player
2004
Pelts
2006
The King of Ads
1991
The Five Days
1973
The Sandman
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Do You Like Hitchcock?
2005
Untitled Dario Argento / Isabelle Huppert Project
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CVLT
2023
Acting · 85
Ennio
2022
Domenica In
1976
Suspiria
1977
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
Deep Red
1975
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
Door Into Darkness
1973
Call My Agent: Italy
2023
Innocent Blood
1992
Inferno
1980
Close Up
2012
Lui è peggio di me
2021
Tenebre
1982
Opera
1987
We Are Cinema
2021
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989
Vortex
2021
Western all'italiana
2004
Friedkin Uncut
2018
Italian Kings Of B
2003
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
2004
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
Dario Argento: Panico
2024
Bits & Pieces
1996
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016
Homo Cinematographicus
1998
The Dark Fantastic
2025
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Cult of Terror
2017
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997
Masters of Horror
2002
The Last Movie Painter
2020
Titanus 1904
2024
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
The Five Days
1973
All the Colors of Giallo
2019
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
Linee d'ombra
2007
Fear in the Dark
1991
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
Hanging Shadows
2007
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
2023
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
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Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
The Cinema Machine
1979
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2008
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011
Tempus fugit
2006
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
2001
Deep Argento
2023
CVLT
2023
A Dark Fairy Tale
2008
Tales Of The Cat
2001
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
Non risponde più
2004
The Grand Opening
2019
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022
Two Masters' Eyes
2003
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
2011
Du sang sur la neige
2013
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
2012
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2010
Director: Dario Argento
2007
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
Out of the Shadows
2005