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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.
Domenica In
1976 · TV
Ennio
2022 · Movie
Suspiria
1977 · Movie
Leçon de Cinéma
2004 · TV
Call My Agent: Italy
2023 · TV
Opera
1987 · Movie
Door Into Darkness
1973 · TV
Innocent Blood
1992 · Movie
Inferno
1980 · Movie
Deep Red
1975 · Movie
Tenebre
1982 · Movie
Close Up
2012 · Movie
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022 · Movie
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
1991 · Movie
Friedkin Uncut
2018 · Movie
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · Movie
Vortex
2021 · Movie
Blood on Méliès' Moon
2016 · Movie
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966 · Movie
We Are Cinema
2021 · Movie
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017 · Movie
The Five Days
1973 · Movie
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004 · Movie
Cult of Terror
2017 · Movie
Italian Kings Of B
2003 · Movie
Dario Argento: My Cinema
1999 · Movie
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001 · Movie
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
· Movie
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989 · Movie
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010 · Movie
Bits & Pieces
1996 · Movie
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
2012 · Movie
Fulci Flashbacks: Reflections on Italy's Premiere Paura Protagonist
2011 · Movie
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005 · Movie
Dario Argento: Panico
2024 · Movie
The Dark Fantastic
2025 · Movie
Titanus 1904
2024 · Movie
Masters of Horror
2002 · Movie
Fear in the Dark
1991 · Movie
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001 · Movie
The Cinema Machine
1979 · Movie
Of Flies and Maggots
2017 · Movie
All the Colors of Giallo
2019 · Movie
Du sang sur la neige
2013 · Movie
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025 · Movie
Dario Argento in conversation at the DFF
2023 · TV
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
2022 · Movie
Nessuno siamo perfetti
2015 · Movie
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985 · Movie
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1985 · Movie
BowieNext - Nascita di una galassia
2018 · Movie
The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors
1997 · Movie
Deep Argento
2023 · Movie
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021 · Movie
Linee d'ombra
2007 · Movie
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019 · Movie
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016 · Movie
The Dead Will Walk: The Making of Dawn of the Dead
2004 · Movie
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
2022 · Movie
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
2016 · Movie
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001 · Movie
The Last Movie Painter
2020 · Movie
CVLT
2023 · Movie
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
2022 · Movie
Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of Suspiria
2009 · Movie
Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'
2001 · Movie
When There's no More Room in Hell
2004 · Movie
Dario Argento : soupirs dans un corridor lointain
2019 · Movie
