Directing
Dario Argento
Born Sep 7, 1940 · 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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Directed
CVLT
2023
Horror
Dark Glasses
2022
Drama · Thriller · Horror
Dracula 3D
2012
Horror
Giallo
2010
Crime · Horror · Mystery
The Mother of Tears
2007
Horror
Pelts
2006
Horror · TV Movie
Jenifer
2005
Horror · TV Movie
Masters of Horror
2005
Drama · Mystery · Crime
Do You Like Hitchcock?
2005
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
The Card Player
2004
Crime · Horror · Mystery
Sleepless
2001
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
The Phantom of the Opera
1998
Horror · Romance · Mystery
The Stendhal Syndrome
1996
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Trauma
1993
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
The King of Ads
1991
Documentary
Two Evil Eyes
1990
Horror
Opera
1987
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
1987
Mystery · Crime
Phenomena
1985
Horror · Thriller
Tenebre
1982
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Inferno
1980
Horror · Thriller
Suspiria
1977
Horror · Mystery
Deep Red
1975
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Door Into Darkness
1973
Mystery · Drama
The Five Days
1973
Comedy · Drama · History
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1971
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
The Cat o' Nine Tails
1971
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970
Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Written
Carne della mia carne
Thriller · Horror
Suspiria
2018
Horror · Mystery · Drama
The Wax Mask
1997
Horror · Thriller
The Sect
1991
Horror
The Church
1989
Horror
Acting
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Documentary
The Golden Years of Dario Argento
2026
Documentary
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Documentary
The Dark Fantastic
2025
Documentary · Music
Titanus 1904
2024
Documentary
