Dario Argento
Directing
1940-09-07 · 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.
Filmography
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025 · Movie
The Dark Fantastic
2025 · Movie
Titanus 1904
2024 · Movie
Dario Argento: Panico
2024 · Movie
Deep Argento
2023 · Movie
CVLT
2023 · Movie
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
2023 · Series
Call My Agent: Italy
2023 · Series
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022 · Movie
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022 · Movie
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022 · Movie
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022 · Movie
She Will
2022 · Movie
Dark Glasses
2022 · Movie
Ennio
2022 · Movie
We Are Cinema
2021 · Movie
Vortex
2021 · Movie
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021 · Movie
Lui è peggio di me
2021 · Series
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · Movie
The Last Movie Painter
2020 · Movie
The Grand Opening
2019 · Movie
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019 · Movie
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019 · Movie
All the Colors of Giallo
2019 · Movie
Friedkin Uncut
2018 · Movie
Suspiria
2018 · Movie
Konbini Vidéo Club
2018 · Series
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018 · Movie
Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
2018 · Movie
Cult of Terror
2017 · Movie
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017 · Movie
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017 · Movie
Of Flies and Maggots
2017 · Movie
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016 · Movie
Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016 · Movie
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016 · Movie
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015 · Movie
Macbeth
2015 · Movie
Du sang sur la neige
2013 · Movie
Dracula 3D
2012 · Movie
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012 · Movie
Close Up
2012 · Movie
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
2012 · Movie
Masks
2011 · Movie
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011 · Movie
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
2011 · Movie
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010 · Movie
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2010 · Movie
Giallo
2010 · Movie
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009 · Movie
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2008 · Movie
A Dark Fairy Tale
2008 · Movie
The Mother of Tears
2007 · Movie
Linee d'ombra
2007 · Movie
Director: Dario Argento
2007 · Movie
Hanging Shadows
2007 · Movie
Pelts
2006 · Movie
Tempus fugit
2006 · Movie
Jenifer
2005 · Movie
Masters of Horror
2005 · Series
Out of the Shadows
2005 · Movie
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005 · Movie
Do You Like Hitchcock?
2005 · Movie
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004 · Movie
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
2004 · Movie
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004 · Movie
Leçon de Cinéma
2004 · Series
The Card Player
2004 · Movie
Non risponde più
2004 · Movie
Western all'italiana
2004 · Movie
Two Masters' Eyes
2003 · Movie
Italian Kings Of B
2003 · Movie
Masters of Horror
2002 · Movie
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001 · Movie
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
2001 · Movie
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001 · Movie
Tales Of The Cat
2001 · Movie
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001 · Movie
Sleepless
2001 · Movie
Scarlet Diva
2000 · Movie
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999 · Movie
The Phantom of the Opera
1998 · Movie
Homo Cinematographicus
1998 · Movie
The Wax Mask
1997 · Movie
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997 · Movie
Bits & Pieces
1996 · Movie
The Stendhal Syndrome
1996 · Movie
DeGenerazione
1994 · Movie
Trauma
1993 · Movie
Innocent Blood
1992 · Movie
The King of Ads
1991 · Movie
Fear in the Dark
1991 · Movie
The Sect
1991 · Movie
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991 · Movie
Two Evil Eyes
1990 · Movie
The Church
1989 · Movie
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989 · Movie
Opera
1987 · Movie
Night Shift
1987 · Series
Dario Argento’s Nightmares
1987 · Series
Demons 2
1986 · Movie
Demons
1985 · Movie
Phenomena
1985 · Movie
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985 · Movie
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985 · Movie
Tenebre
1982 · Movie
Inferno
1980 · Movie
Dawn of the Dead
1978 · Movie
Suspiria
1977 · Movie
Domenica In
1976 · Series
Deep Red
1975 · Movie
Door Into Darkness
1973 · Series
The Five Days
1973 · Movie
Man Called Amen
1972 · Movie
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1971 · Movie
The Cat o' Nine Tails
1971 · Movie
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970 · Movie
Season of the Senses
1969 · Movie
The 5-Man Army
1969 · Movie
Battle of the Commandos
1969 · Movie
Possibility Zero
1969 · Movie
Love Circle
1969 · Movie
Cemetery without Crosses
1969 · Movie
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Movie
The Sexual Revolution
1968 · Movie
Commandos
1968 · Movie
Commandments for a Gangster
1968 · Movie
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
1968 · Movie
Every Man Is My Enemy
1967 · Movie
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966 · Movie
Untitled Dario Argento / Isabelle Huppert Project
Movie
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Movie
The Sandman
Movie
Carne della mia carne
Movie
The Black Velvet Mask
Movie
The Girl with Crystal Eyes
Movie