Dario Argento
Birthday: 1940-09-07
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Biography: 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.
Movies
Innocent Blood
Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her vict...
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Cult of Terror
A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and roc...
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The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
Feature documentary which profiles both the 1978 film and the career of director George A. Romero, i...
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Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
A short documentary about Suspiria by Dario Argento....
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Close Up
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferenc...
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Dario Argento's World of Horror
Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento a...
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Ennio
A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the ...
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Bits & Pieces
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarr...
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Dario Argento: Panico
This documentary about the great master of European horror and fantastic films offers an immersive e...
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Linee d'ombra
Macchie solari (Autopsy), L'etrusco uccide ancora (The Etruscan kills again), commandos are titles t...
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Der Fall der vier Fliegen
Luigi Cozzi's memories about the production of Dario Argento's "4 mosche di velluto grigio"....
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Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
This documentary is featured on the Limited Edition DVD for Opera, released in 2001....
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Hanging Shadows
Offers a critical appreciation of Italian horror cinema, pioneered by directors such as Dario Argent...
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CVLT
In the clip for the song "Cvlt" the rappers Salmo and Noyz Narcos go to the master's house. Things t...
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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest ...
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Il mistero della cattedrale
A retrospective look at the making of Michele Soavi's "The Church" including interviews with cast an...
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Tripping The Dark Fantastic
Showcasing a live performance at Earth Theatre, London in 2021 and interviews with the artists he ha...
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Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the ...
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Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay t...
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Nessuno siamo perfetti
A loving portrait of reclusive comic-book writer Tiziano Sclavi, creator of Dylan Dog...
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Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
Newly edited version of Luigi Cozzi's 1997 documentary "Il mondo di Dario Argento 3: Il museo degli ...
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Deep Argento
Dario Argento is one of the most acclaimed Italian directors in the world, revered as if he were a r...
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Blood on Méliès' Moon
France, 1890. Inventor Louis Le Prince vanishes under mysterious circumstances right after he create...
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Fear in the Dark
A short documentary on the history of the horror film narrated by Christopher Lee....
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A Dark Fairy Tale
A short documentary about the making of Dario Argento's "Phenomena" (1985)....
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Of Flies and Maggots
Feature-length documentary including interviews with co-writer/producer/director Dario Argento, and ...
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Dario Argento: Master of Horror
A documentary about the films of Italian horror director Dario Argento. Included are clips from many...
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The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
Documentary about Dario Argento, "Profondo Rosso" shop in Rome, and most important works throughout ...
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Stephen King's World of Horror
This horror documentary is not the same as the 1986 TV special Stephen King's World of Horror nor th...
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Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...
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Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the it...
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Inferno
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house....
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry....
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Friedkin Uncut
An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary an...
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Ban the Sadist Videos!
An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain....
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Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre can...
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Masters of Horror
Documentary showcasing the work of prominent film directors in the horror genre. Featuring interview...
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Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Feature-length in-depth documentary by High Rising Productions chronicling the Giallo film genre fro...
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Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
This documentary is featured on Arrow Video's 2011 DVD & Blu-ray releases for The Beyond (1981)....
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The Making of 'Mother of Tears'
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film....
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All the Colors of Giallo
'Giallo' is Italian for 'yellow', the color of the lurid pulp novels that inspired one of the most i...
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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons,...
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Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena
Five of the main players behind Dario Argento's classic horror shocker Phenomena (1985) sit down to ...
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The Last Movie Painter
A fantastic journey through the world of Renato Casaro, one of the most important illustrators that ...
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Suspiria
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a fr...
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Deep Red
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help...
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Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and ...
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Opera
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to ...
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Tenebre
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American myste...
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly...
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The Five Days
In 1848 Milan, a thief and a baker witness the chaotic final days of the Italian Revolution....
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Director: Dario Argento
Dario Argento discusses the genesis of The Stendhal Syndrome, the structure of its narrative, the un...
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Two Masters' Eyes
This documentary features interviews with directors Dario Argento and George Romero, Special Make-Up...
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Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Sergio Castellitto's narration traces the history of 3D cinema, which began with cinema itself, thro...
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Out of the Shadows
Argento looks back at the making of his stunning debut, THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE...
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Tales Of The Cat
Argento, Morricone, and co-writer Dardano Saccheti offer a thumbnail version The Cat o' Nine Tailsof...
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Western all'italiana
"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio U...
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Vortex
Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find the...
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Dario Argento: My Cinema
Documentary on the films of Dario Argento from his debut "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" up unti...
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Homo Cinematographicus
Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the ci...
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When There's no More Room in Hell
Documentary about the making of the European version of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead"....
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The Run
A famous fitness influencer's morning run turns into a fight for survival when she's hunted by kille...
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The Dark Fantastic
The Dark Fantastic is a psychedelic journey into the mind of renowned composer Simon Boswell, blendi...
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The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'
Short documentary about the making of Luigi Cozzi's 1989 film "The Black Cat"....
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