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.
78 movies · 6 shows
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025·7.0
The Dark Fantastic
2025·0.0
Titanus 1904
2024·0.0
Dario Argento: Panico
2024·6.9
Deep Argento
2023·3.0
CVLT
2023·7.0
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022·3.0
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022·0.0
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022·0.0
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022·7.4
Ennio
2022·8.3
We Are Cinema
2021·9.5
Vortex
2021·7.1
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021·9.2
Tales of the Uncanny
2020·7.0
The Last Movie Painter
2020·7.4
The Grand Opening
2019·0.0
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019·7.3
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019·5.0
All the Colors of Giallo
2019·6.9
Friedkin Uncut
2018·7.1
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018·0.0
Cult of Terror
2017·6.8
Il mistero della cattedrale
2017·8.0
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017·6.0
Of Flies and Maggots
2017·6.0
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016·0.0
Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016·5.1
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016·6.6
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015·7.0
Du sang sur la neige
2013·0.0
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012·7.4
Close Up
2012·9.5
Der Fall der vier Fliegen
2012·6.5
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011·5.0
Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
2011·7.0
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010·5.0
The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
2010·0.0
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009·0.0
The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
2008·4.0
A Dark Fairy Tale
2008·0.0
Linee d'ombra
2007·0.0
Director: Dario Argento
2007·0.0
Hanging Shadows
2007·0.0
Tempus fugit
2006·0.0
Out of the Shadows
2005·9.0
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005·6.8
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004·0.0
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
2004·8.2
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004·6.5
Non risponde più
2004·8.5
Western all'italiana
2004·4.0
Two Masters' Eyes
2003·7.0
Italian Kings Of B
2003·6.0
Masters of Horror
2002·7.8
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001·6.4
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
2001·6.8
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001·7.0
Tales Of The Cat
2001·8.0
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001·6.8
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999·6.0
Homo Cinematographicus
1998·8.0
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997·7.5
Bits & Pieces
1996·5.0
Innocent Blood
1992·6.2
Fear in the Dark
1991·9.0
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991·7.1
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989·8.0
Opera
1987·6.7
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985·6.9
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985·9.0
Tenebre
1982·6.8
Inferno
1980·6.6
The Cinema Machine
1979·0.0
Suspiria
1977·7.5
Deep Red
1975·7.7
The Five Days
1973·5.9
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966·6.1