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 film making 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 thril ... show all 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 film making 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, acording 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 a roman evening newspaper, Paese Sera. Inspired by the movies, Argento later found work as a screenwriter and wrote several screenplays for a number of films, but the most important were his Western colaborations, which included "Une corde, un Colt (1969)", and the Sergio Leone masterpiece "C'era una volta il West (1968)". After its release Argento wrote and directed his first movie, "Uccello dalle piume di cristallo, L' (1970)" a loose adoption on Frederick Brown's novel "The Screaming Mimi", which was made for his father's film company. Argento wanted to direct the movie himself because he did not want any other director messing up with the production and his screenplay.
After "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage" became an international hit, Argento followed up with two more thrillers, "Gatto a nove code, Il (1971)" and "4 mosche di velluto grigio (1971)", both of them were backed by his father Salvatore. Argento then directed the TV drama "Testimone oculare (1973) (TV)" and the historical TV drama "Cinque giornate, Le (1973)". Argento then went back to directing the so-called "giallo" thrillers starting with "Profondo rosso (1975)", a violent mystery-thriller with inspired a number of international directors with the thriller-horror genre. His next work was "Suspiria (1977)" which was inspired by the Gothic fairy tales of Grimm and Andersen which were collaborated by his girlfriend, screenwriter/actress Daria Nicolodi, who acted in "Profondo Rosso" ("Deep Red") and most of Argento's films from then on to the late 1980s. Argento advanced the unfinished trilogy with "Inferno (1980)", before returning to the "giallo" thrillers with "Tenebre (1982)", and then with "Phenomena (1985)".
The lukewarm reviews caused Argento to slip away from directing to producing and co-writing two Lamberto Bava horror flicks "Demoni (1985)" and "Demoni 2 (1986)". Argento returned to directing with the "giallo" thriller "Opera (1987)", which according to him was "a very unpleasant experience". A number of technical problems happened which delayed production, the lead actress Vanessa Redgrave dropped out before filming was to begin, Argento's father Salvatore died during filming, and his long-term girlfriend Daria broke off their relationship. After the commercial box-office failure of "Opera", Dario Argento temporarily settled in the USA where he colaborated with director George A. Romero with the two-part horror-thriller "Due occhi diabolici (1990)". Argento had previously colaborated with Romero on the horror action thriller "Dawn of the Dead (1978)". While still living in America, Argento acted in small movie roles and directed another violent mystery thriller "Trauma (1993)" which starred his youngest daughter Asia Argento from his long-term relationship with Daria Nicolodi. Argento returned to Italy in 1996 where he made a comeback to the horror genre with "Sindrome di Stendhal, La (1996)" and then by another version of "Fantasma dell'opera, Il (1998)" (Phantom of the Opera) both of which starred Asia. Most resently, Argento directed the thriller "Non ho sonno (2001)". His movies may be regarded by some as cheap and overly violent. But second or third vewings reguard him as a talented writer/director with a penchant for original ideas and creative directing. hide |
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| In Torino, Celine, an American model, is abducted by a taxi driver while en route home to meet her sister Linda, visiting at her apartment. The next morning, Linda reports that Celine is missing - the sergeant in charge directs her to F.B.I. agent Inspector Enzo Avolfi. He's from the Special New York City Department investigating a serial-killer that kidnaps foreigners to destroy their beauty. When a Japanese woman is found at nearby a fountain, Enzo and Linda find that the girl is calling the abductor's skin is "Yellow" in color and Linda concludes that the guy might have jaundice. They go to the Policlinic di Torino to find the killer. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Crime, Horror, Italy, Thriller, USA
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| Police officer Frank Spivey saves a disfigured young woman named Jenifer from being slaughtered by a crazy old man. He takes her into his home because she has nowhere else to go, but starts to become obsessed with her. Soon, it becomes clear that there are problems with Jenifer that turn Frank's life upside-down. He realizes that there is only one thing that will keep Jenifer from hurting anyone else and let him return to a normal life. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Drama, USA
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| Sam, an American writer in Rome, witnesses a murder attempt on the wife of the owner of an art gallery by a sinister man in a raincoat and black leather gloves - but Sam is powerless to do anything as he gets trapped between a double set of glass doors in going to her aid. The woman survives, and the police say that she is the first surviving victim of a notorious serial killer. But when they fail to make any progress with the case, Sam decides to investigate on his own, turning up several clues that point in the direction of just one possible suspect - assuming that he really knows who he's looking for... Search keywords
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Categories: 1970, Crime, Horror, Italy, Mystery, Thriller, West Germany
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Categories: 2004, Crime, Thriller, USA
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Categories: 2004, Crime, Thriller, USA
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| In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas (Tony Musant) witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia (Suzy Kendall) and help the police in the investigation, while the serial killer stalks Julia and him. Search keywords
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Categories: 1970, Horror, Italy, Mystery, Thriller, West Germany
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| Anna Manni is a policewoman trying to capture a vicious serial rapist and killer. The problem is that she suffers from "Stendhal's syndrome", a psychosomatic disease that gives her dizziness and hallucinations when she is exposed to the sight of paintings and artistic masterpieces. When the maniac lures her into a trap inside Florence's famous Uffizi museum, her troubles are just beginning... Search keywords
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Categories: 1996, Crime, Horror, Italy, Thriller
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| A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so closely. Search keywords
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Categories: 1975, Horror, Italy, Mystery, Thriller
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| Three years after the incident of the dance academy in "Suspiria", a new group of people are being watched in a New York City apartment complex by a mysterious and evil force hell bent on revenge! When Rose Elliot finds out too much about the place (via the book, "The Three Mothers") she gets be-headed (YEE-OUCH!)! The only person to stop the killings and uncover the secrets is her brother Mark. As he solves the puzzle, the murders get intense, and the evil starts to reveal itself. Hope Mark Elliot gets out of that "Renter's Trap" alive.... Search keywords
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Categories: 1980
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| Jennifer Corvino, the daughter of a famous actor, has had trouble with sleepwalking for some time. Her doctor said that it can develop a split personality. She discovers her alternate personality when she stays at a boarding school that was once the home a Richard Wagner. But someone has been killing the students, and it relates only indirectly to the criminal sanitorium nearby. So it's up to "the two greatest detectives the world has ever known, or should I say, unknown" Search keywords
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Categories: 1985, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Italy, Mystery, Thriller
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| A young dancer of the United States to Europe to join a famous ballet school. When she arrived, the camera to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing the school. She returned to her apartment, she is gruesomely killed in a terrible animal. At the same time, the youngest in the United States is trying to solve the ballet school, but strange to hear voices, is disturbed by the bizarre incident. She eventually found that the school is only a pretext for a more sinister organization.
一位年轻的美国舞蹈家前往欧洲参加一个著名的芭蕾舞学校。当她到达时，摄像机转向另一个年轻女子，谁似乎是逃离学校。她回到她的公寓，她是gruesomely杀害一个可怕的动物。与此同时，年轻的美国正在试图解决在芭蕾舞学校，但听到奇怪的声音，是不安的离奇事件。她最终发现，学校只是一个幌子一个更险恶的组织。 Search keywords
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Categories: 1977, Fantasy, Horror, Italy, Mystery, Thriller
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| The final down payment of "Three mothers de Dario Argento" the trilogy. The film centres on a young student of American art, Sarah, who "opens involuntarily an ancient ballot box which drops the diabolic power of the most vigorous sorceress of the world. As a blight of suicides torment the city and the sorceresses of converging everywhere in the world on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must have recourse to all her own psychical powers to stop the "'mother de Déchirures" before her trouble wins the world. ".
L'acompte final des "Trois Mères de Dario Argento" la trilogie. Le film centre sur un jeune étudiant d'art américain, Sarah, qui "ouvre involontairement une urne ancienne qui lâche le pouvoir diabolique de la sorcière la plus vigoureuse du monde. Comme un fléau de suicides tourmentent la ville et les sorcières de convergent partout dans le monde sur Rome pour payer l'hommage, Sarah doit avoir recours à tous ses propres pouvoirs psychiques pour arrêter la 'Mère de Déchirures' avant que son mal conquiert le monde. ". Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Italy, Thriller, USA
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| Giulio, fact to work of student of film on his thesis, crosses most in his/her time to the local video shop, when he is not occupied by looking at German expressionists or at classical thrillers. One night to the shop it becomes put in the picture with Sasha, who turns out to live on the other side of the street of its flat. Next day, the mother of Sasha is found dead. Giulio is persuaded that murder was inspired by the films of Alfred Hitchcock and doubles the advice of his new girlfriend, decides to begin its own inquiry.
Giulio, le fait de travailler d'étudiant de film sur sa thèse, passe la plupart de son temps au magasin vidéo local, quand il n'est pas occupé en regardant des expressionnistes allemands ou des thrillers classiques. Une nuit au magasin il devient mis au courant avec Sasha, qui se révèle vivre de l'autre côté de la rue de son appartement. Le jour suivant, la mère de Sasha est trouvée morte. Giulio est convaincu que le meurtre a été inspiré par les films d'Alfred Hitchcock et contre le conseil de sa nouvelle petite amie, décide de commencer sa propre enquête. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Italy, Spain, Thriller
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