Directing
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.
Filmography
The Golden Years of Dario Argento
Film · 2026
The Dark Fantastic
Film · 2025
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
Film · 2025
Dario Argento: Panico
Film · 2024
Titanus 1904
Film · 2024
CVLT
Film · 2023
Deep Argento
Film · 2023
Call My Agent: Italy
Series · 2023
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
Series · 2023
Ennio
Film · 2022
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Film · 2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Film · 2022
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
Film · 2022
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
Film · 2022
We Are Cinema
Film · 2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Film · 2021
Vortex
Film · 2021
Lui è peggio di me
Series · 2021
Tales of the Uncanny
Film · 2020
The Last Movie Painter
Film · 2020
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
Film · 2019
All the Colors of Giallo
Film · 2019
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Film · 2019
The Grand Opening
Film · 2019
Friedkin Uncut
Film · 2018
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
Film · 2018
Cult of Terror
Film · 2017
Il mistero della cattedrale
Film · 2017
Of Flies and Maggots
Film · 2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Film · 2017
Blood on Méliès' Moon
Film · 2016
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Film · 2016
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Film · 2016
Nessuno siamo perfetti
Film · 2015
Du sang sur la neige
Film · 2013
Close Up
Film · 2012
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
Film · 2012
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Film · 2012
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
Film · 2011
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
Film · 2011
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Film · 2010
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
Film · 2010
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
Film · 2009
A Dark Fairy Tale
Film · 2008
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Film · 2008
Linee d'ombra
Film · 2007
Hanging Shadows
Film · 2007
Director: Dario Argento
Film · 2007
Tempus fugit
Film · 2006
Ban the Sadist Videos!
Film · 2005
Out of the Shadows
Film · 2005
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Film · 2004
Non risponde più
Film · 2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Film · 2004
Western all'italiana
Film · 2004
When There's no More Room in Hell
Film · 2004
Leçon de Cinéma
Series · 2004
Two Masters' Eyes
Film · 2003
Italian Kings Of B
Film · 2003
Masters of Horror
Film · 2002
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
Film · 2001
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Film · 2001
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Film · 2001
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Film · 2001
Tales Of The Cat
Film · 2001
Dario Argento: My Cinema
Film · 1999
Homo Cinematographicus
Film · 1998
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Film · 1997
Bits & Pieces
Film · 1996
Innocent Blood
Film · 1992
Fear in the Dark
Film · 1991
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
Film · 1991
Stephen King's World of Horror
Film · 1989
Opera
Film · 1987
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Film · 1985
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Film · 1985
Tenebre
Film · 1982
Inferno
Film · 1980
Suspiria
Film · 1977
Domenica In
Series · 1976
Deep Red
Film · 1975
The Five Days
Film · 1973
Door Into Darkness
Series · 1973
Door Into Darkness
Series · 1973
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Film · 1966
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
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