Directed credits
22
Established
Strong directing catalog.
Director
Dario Argento
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.0
Low visibility
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Directed movies: 20Directed series: 2All crew credits: 55
TMDB ID: 4955
IMDb ID: nm0000783
Known for: Directing
Born: September 7, 1940
Age: 85
Place of birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1966 - 2025
Years active: 60
Average TMDB rating: 6.21
Wikidata: Q53011
Also known as
Sirio Bernadotte • 다리오 아르젠토 • 达里奥·阿基多
Frequent jobs
Director (21)Stage Director (1)Writer (10)Screenplay (8)Producer (5)Story (3)Thanks (3)Additional Writing (1)Original Film Writer (1)Original Music Composer (1)
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.
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Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Dario Argento.
7.0
CVLT
Director
2023 Movie
4.8
Dark Glasses
Director
2022 Movie
7.3
Macbeth
Stage Director
2015 Movie
3.5
Dracula 3D
Director
2012 Movie
5.6
Pelts
Director
2006 Movie
5.9
Jenifer
Director
2005 Movie
5.2
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Director
2005 Movie
4.4
The Card Player
Director
2004 Movie
6.1
Sleepless
Director
2001 Movie
4.6
The Phantom of the Opera
Director
1998 Movie
5.4
The Stendhal Syndrome
Director
1996 Movie
5.8
Trauma
Director
1993 Movie
4.3
The King of Ads
Director
1991 Movie
6.1
Two Evil Eyes
Director
1990 Movie
6.7
Opera
Director
1987 Movie
7.7
Deep Red
Director
1975 Movie
5.8
The Five Days
Director
1973 Movie
6.5
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Director
1971 Movie
6.7
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Director
1971 Movie
7.1
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Director
1970 Movie
Series
Directed Series
Series directed by Dario Argento.
Movies
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Dario Argento.
8.3
Ennio
as Self
2022 Movie
8.3
Once Upon a Time in the West
Story
1968 Movie
7.7
Deep Red
Director
1975 Movie
7.5
Suspiria
Original Music Composer
1977 Movie
7.5
Dawn of the Dead
Script Consultant
1978 Movie
7.1
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Director
1970 Movie
7.1
Vortex
as Lui
2021 Movie
6.9
Suspiria
Original Film Writer
2018 Movie
6.8
Tenebre
Story
1982 Movie
6.8
Phenomena
Screenplay
1985 Movie
6.7
Opera
Director
1987 Movie
6.7
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Director
1971 Movie
Series
Top Rated Series
Highest rated series linked with Dario Argento.
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Dario Argento.
8.3
Once Upon a Time in the West
Story
1968 Movie
5.9
Jenifer
Director
2005 Movie
4.7
Scarlet Diva
Producer
2000 Movie
6.9
Suspiria
Original Film Writer
2018 Movie
7.5
Dawn of the Dead
Script Consultant
1978 Movie
4.8
Dark Glasses
Director
2022 Movie
7.5
Suspiria
Original Music Composer
1977 Movie
5.7
DeGenerazione
Thanks
1994 Movie
6.7
Opera
Director
1987 Movie
5.6
Pelts
Director
2006 Movie
6.6
Demons
Producer
1985 Movie
3.0
Deep Argento
2023 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Dario Argento.
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Dario Argento.
4.8
She Will
Producer
2022 Movie
6.9
Suspiria
Original Film Writer
2018 Movie
5.8
Dogman's Rabies: Underdog
Thanks
2018 Movie
5.6
Masks
Thanks
2011 Movie
4.2
Giallo
Screenplay
2010 Movie
4.5
The Mother of Tears
Writer
2007 Movie
4.7
Scarlet Diva
Producer
2000 Movie
5.6
The Wax Mask
Producer
1997 Movie
5.7
DeGenerazione
Thanks
1994 Movie
6.2
The Sect
Writer
1991 Movie
6.0
The Church
Story
1989 Movie
6.1
Demons 2
Writer
1986 Movie
6.6
Demons
Producer
1985 Movie
6.8
Phenomena
Screenplay
1985 Movie
6.8
Tenebre
Story
1982 Movie
6.6
Inferno
Screenplay
1980 Movie
Series
Other Crew Work in Series
Additional series credits for Dario Argento.
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Dario Argento.
The Run
as Priest
2025 Movie
7.0
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025 Movie
The Dark Fantastic
as Self
2025 Movie
Titanus 1904
as Self
2024 Movie
6.7
Dario Argento: Panico
as Self
2024 Movie
3.0
Deep Argento
2023 Movie
7.0
CVLT
as Dario Argento
2023 Movie
3.0
Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
as self
2022 Movie
DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit
as Self
2022 Movie
Tripping The Dark Fantastic
as Himself
2022 Movie
7.4
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
as Self
2022 Movie
8.3
Ennio
as Self
2022 Movie
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Dario Argento.
