
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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 8.603 |
Birthday | 1940-09-07 |
Place of Birth | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Also Known As | Sirio Bernadotte, 다리오 아르젠토, 达里奥·阿基多, |

1992

Innocent Blood
6.1/217
Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than s...
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2020

Tales of the Uncanny
7.1/10
A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.
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Tales of the Uncanny

2017

Cult of Terror
6.3/3
A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephil...
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Cult of Terror

2004

The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
8.3/6
Feature documentary which profiles both the 1978 film and the career of director George A. Romero, including extensive interviews with all principle c...
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The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead

2009

Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
0/0
A short documentary about Suspiria by Dario Argento.
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2012

Close Up
9/1
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and...
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1985

Dario Argento's World of Horror
6.9/11
Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985.
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2022

Ennio
8.327/327
A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-...
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Ennio

1996

Bits & Pieces
4.9/14
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy'...
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Bits & Pieces

2004

Non risponde più
7/1
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Non risponde più

2024

Dario Argento: Panico
7/1
This documentary about the great master of European horror and fantastic films offers an immersive exploration into the life and legacy of the directo...
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Dario Argento: Panico

2007

Linee d'ombra
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2012

Der Fall der vier Fliegen
6.5/2
Luigi Cozzi's memories about the production of Dario Argento's "4 mosche di velluto grigio".
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Der Fall der vier Fliegen

2001

Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
6.8/4
This documentary is featured on the Limited Edition DVD for Opera, released in 2001.
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2007

Hanging Shadows
0/0
Offers a critical appreciation of Italian horror cinema, pioneered by directors such as Dario Argento and Mario Bava, a genre that influenced filmmake...
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Hanging Shadows

2023

CVLT
7.053/19
In the clip for the song "Cvlt" the rappers Salmo and Noyz Narcos go to the master's house. Things take an unexpected turn.
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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
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A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and in...
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2017

Il mistero della cattedrale
8/1
A retrospective look at the making of Michele Soavi's "The Church" including interviews with cast and crew.
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Il mistero della cattedrale

2022

Tripping The Dark Fantastic
0/0
Showcasing a live performance at Earth Theatre, London in 2021 and interviews with the artists he has collaborated with from over 35 years of scoring...
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Tripping The Dark Fantastic

2012

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
8/11
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the 1...
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Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

2001

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
6.6/14
Documentary that explores Argento's film career.
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Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

2022

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
7.3/52
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema...
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2015

Nessuno siamo perfetti
7/2
A loving portrait of reclusive comic-book writer Tiziano Sclavi, creator of Dylan Dog
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Nessuno siamo perfetti

2021

We Are Cinema
9.5/1
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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We Are Cinema

2022

DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
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2022

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
3/1
Newly edited version of Luigi Cozzi's 1997 documentary "Il mondo di Dario Argento 3: Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento" focusing on the museum-pa...
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2019

Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
5/3
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2023

Deep Argento
0/0
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2016

Blood on Méliès' Moon
4.4/6
France, 1890. Inventor Louis Le Prince vanishes under mysterious circumstances right after he created a device that, five years later, the Lumière Bro...
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Blood on Méliès' Moon

1991

Fear in the Dark
10/1
A short documentary on the history of the horror film narrated by Christopher Lee.
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Fear in the Dark

2008

A Dark Fairy Tale
0/0
A short documentary about the making of Dario Argento's "Phenomena" (1985).
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A Dark Fairy Tale

2017

Of Flies and Maggots
6/1
Feature-length documentary including interviews with co-writer/producer/director Dario Argento, and many of the cast and crew members.
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Of Flies and Maggots

1991

Dario Argento: Master of Horror
6.7/5
A documentary about the films of Italian horror director Dario Argento. Included are clips from many of his films and interviews with friends, actors...
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1997

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
6/1
Documentary about Dario Argento, "Profondo Rosso" shop in Rome, and most important works throughout his career.
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1989

Stephen King's World of Horror
8/3
This horror documentary is not the same as the 1986 TV special Stephen King's World of Horror nor the 1988 VHS release of the same name, which runs 45...
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2017

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
6/4
The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic m...
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2004

Mario Bava: Operazione paura
6/1
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava
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1980

Inferno
6.653/613
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
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Inferno

1985

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
0/0
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

2018

Friedkin Uncut
7.023/43
An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as The Frenc...
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Friedkin Uncut

2005

Ban the Sadist Videos!
6.9/23
An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain.
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2001

Suspiria 25th Anniversary
6.4/5
Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre can desire, including the inspiration of the plot, th...
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2002

Masters of Horror
7.7/13
Documentary showcasing the work of prominent film directors in the horror genre. Featuring interviews with the directors, behind the scenes footage an...
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2013

Du sang sur la neige
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2016

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
6.6/7
Feature-length in-depth documentary by High Rising Productions chronicling the Giallo film genre from its beginnings as early 20th century crime ficti...
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2011

Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
5/1
This documentary is featured on Arrow Video's 2011 DVD & Blu-ray releases for The Beyond (1981).
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2008

The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
4/1
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.
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2019

All the Colors of Giallo
6.7/20
'Giallo' is Italian for 'yellow', the color of the lurid pulp novels that inspired one of the most intense, extreme and influential genres in movie hi...
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1966

Pardon, Are You for or Against?
6/18
A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a fr...
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2010

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
6.5/2
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2019

Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
8.5/2
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2006

Tempus fugit
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2011

Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
7/1
Five of the main players behind Dario Argento's classic horror shocker Phenomena (1985) sit down to take viewers through this exclusive, epic-sized, 5...
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2020

The Last Movie Painter
7.6/8
A fantastic journey through the world of Renato Casaro, one of the most important illustrators that the world’s film poster industry has ever known.
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1977

Suspiria
7.5/2949
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly...
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Suspiria

1975

Deep Red
7.8/1476
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his neighbor, a psychic. With the help of a tenacious young reporter he tries to disc...
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Deep Red

2001

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
5.8/5
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimoni...
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Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

1987

Opera
6.8/480
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
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1982

Tenebre
6.9/619
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
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Tenebre

2021

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
9.2/5
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actress...
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

1973

The Five Days
6/37
In 1848 Milan, a thief and a baker witness the chaotic final days of the Italian Revolution.
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The Five Days

2007

Director: Dario Argento
0/0
Dario Argento discusses the genesis of The Stendhal Syndrome, the structure of its narrative, the unique atmosphere and tone of the film.
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2003

Two Masters' Eyes
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This documentary features interviews with directors Dario Argento and George Romero, Special Make-Up Effects supervisor Tom Savini, executive producer...
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Two Masters' Eyes

2016

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
0/0
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2005

Out of the Shadows
0/0
Argento looks back at the making of his stunning debut, THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE
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Out of the Shadows

2001

Tales Of The Cat
0/0
Argento, Morricone, and co-writer Dardano Saccheti offer a thumbnail version The Cat o' Nine Tailsof the circumstances which led to the film's creatio...
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Tales Of The Cat

2004

Western all'italiana
4/1
"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcast...
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Western all'italiana

2003

Italian Kings Of B
6/1
Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
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Italian Kings Of B

2022

Vortex
7.185/224
Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succ...
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Vortex

2019

The Grand Opening
0/0
Interviews with the filmmakers behind the 1996 film Wax Mask.
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The Grand Opening

1999

Dario Argento: My Cinema
6/1
Documentary on the films of Dario Argento from his debut "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" up until "The Phantom of the Opera".
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Dario Argento: My Cinema

1998

Homo Cinematographicus
0/0
Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the cinema and its derivative, television. Filmed at the...
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Homo Cinematographicus

2024

Titanus 1904
0/0
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Titanus 1904

2004

When There's no More Room in Hell
0/0
Documentary about the making of the European version of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead".
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