Directing
Dario Argento
Born 1940-09-07
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).
Acting
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
The Dark Fantastic
2025 · Self
Titanus 1904
2024 · Self
Dario Argento: Panico
2024 · Self
Deep Argento
2023
CVLT
2023 · Dario Argento
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022 · self
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022 · Self
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022 · Himself
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022 · Self
Ennio
2022 · Self
We Are Cinema
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Vortex
2021 · Lui
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021 · Self
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · Self (archive footage)
The Last Movie Painter
2020 · Self
The Grand Opening
2019 · Self
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019 · Self
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019
All the Colors of Giallo
2019 · Self - Director
Friedkin Uncut
2018 · Self
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018
Cult of Terror
2017 · Self - Filmmaker
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017 · self
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017 · Self - Filmmaker
Of Flies and Maggots
2017
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016
Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016 · Self
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016 · Self
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015 · Self
Du sang sur la neige
2013 · Self
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012 · Self
Director
Screenplay
Story
Writer
Dracula 3D
2012
The Mother of Tears
2007
Do You Like Hitchcock?
2005
The Stendhal Syndrome
1996
Trauma
1993
The Sect
1991
Demons 2
1986
Deep Red
1975
Man Called Amen
1972
Season of the Senses
1969
Possibility Zero
1969
Cemetery without Crosses
1969
Commandments for a Gangster
1968
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
1968
The Girl with Crystal Eyes
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The Black Velvet Mask
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