Dario Argento
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Dario Argento

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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.

Films Featuring Dario Argento

Innocent Blood

19926.2

Cult of Terror

20176.8

Tales of the Uncanny

20207.0

The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead

20048.2

Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria

2009

Close Up

20129.5

Dario Argento's World of Horror

19856.9

Ennio

20228.3

Bits & Pieces

19965.0

Non risponde più

Non risponde più

20048.5

Dario Argento: Panico

20246.9

Linee d'ombra

2007

Der Fall der vier Fliegen

Der Fall der vier Fliegen

20126.5

Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

20016.8

Hanging Shadows

Hanging Shadows

2007

CVLT

20237.0

I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

Il mistero della cattedrale

Il mistero della cattedrale

20178.0

Tripping The Dark Fantastic

2022

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

20127.4

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

20016.8

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

20227.4

Nessuno siamo perfetti

20157.0

We Are Cinema

20219.5

DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

2022

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

20223.0

Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain

20195.0

Deep Argento

20233.0

Blood on Méliès' Moon

20165.1

Fear in the Dark

19919.0

A Dark Fairy Tale

A Dark Fairy Tale

2008

Of Flies and Maggots

20176.0

Dario Argento: Master of Horror

19917.1

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

19977.5

Stephen King's World of Horror

19898.0

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

20176.0

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

20046.5

Inferno

19806.6

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

19859.0

Friedkin Uncut

20187.1

Ban the Sadist Videos!

20056.8

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

20017.0

Masters of Horror

20027.8

Du sang sur la neige

2013

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

20166.6

Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist

20115.0

The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

The Making of 'Mother of Tears'

20084.0

All the Colors of Giallo

20196.9

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

19666.1

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

20105.0

Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta

20197.3

Tempus fugit

Tempus fugit

2006

Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

20117.0

The Last Movie Painter

20207.5

Suspiria

19777.5

Deep Red

19757.7

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

20016.4

Opera

19876.7

Tenebre

19826.8

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

20219.2

The Five Days

19735.9

Director: Dario Argento

Director: Dario Argento

2007

Two Masters' Eyes

Two Masters' Eyes

20037.0

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

2016

Tales Of The Cat

Tales Of The Cat

20018.0

Out of the Shadows

Out of the Shadows

20059.0

Western all'italiana

Western all'italiana

20044.0

Italian Kings Of B

20036.0

Vortex

20217.1

The Grand Opening

The Grand Opening

2019

Dario Argento: My Cinema

19996.0

Homo Cinematographicus

Homo Cinematographicus

19988.0

Titanus 1904

2024

When There's no More Room in Hell

2004

The Dark Fantastic

2025

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

20257.0

The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'

The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'

2010

BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia

2018

The Cinema Machine

1979