Dario Argento

Dario Argento

Date of Birth: 07 Sep 1940

Country: Italy

Biography: Hailing from Rome, Argento is one of Italy's most influential horror directors. His unique style helped to create a new subgenre: 'Giallo', which are films marked by creative, bloody murders and interesting camerawork.

Total Credits at Criticker: 26 (Actor), 24 (Director), 34 (Writer)

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    The Card Player
    Cult legend Dario Argento's latest is a maniacal and cynical tale of a serial killer pinning the life of his captives on the outcome of a video poker game. (Two Boots Pioneer Theatre)
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    The Stendhal Syndrome
    Dario Argento's thriller stars the director's daughter Asia as Anna Manni, 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 Florences' famous Uffizi museum, her troubles are just beginning... (imdb)
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    Once Upon a Time in the West
    Sergio Leone's monumental epic is as big as its Monument Valley locations, as grand as its fine, distinguished cast, as tough and bawdy as every kid imagines the Old West.
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    Deep Red
    A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
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    Opera
    A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
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    Demons
    A group of people are trapped in a large West Berlin movie theater infected by ravenous demons whom proceed to kill and posses the humans one-by-one thereby multiplying their numbers. (imdb)
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    Demons 2
    A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down. (imdb)
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    Suspiria
    A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the staff of the school are actually a coven of witches bent on chaos and destruction. (imdb)
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    The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
    A writer is stalked by a serial killer after witnessing a murder attempt on one woman's life. (imdb)
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    Two Evil Eyes
    Two horror tales based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by two famous horror directors, George A. Romero and Dario Argento. (imdb)
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    Inferno
    Semi-sequal to 'Suspiria' has a American college student in Rome, and his sister in New York investigating a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches. (imdb)
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    Tenebre
    An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book. (imdb)
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    The Church
    An old Gothic cathedral, built over a mass grave, develops strange powers which trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 16th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowls of the Earth. (imdb)
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    Phenomena
    A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. (imdb)
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    Sleepless
    An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus. (imdb)
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    The Cat o\
    Franco Arno is a blind man that lives with his young niece and makes a living writing crossword puzzles. One night, while walking on the street, he overhears a weird conversation between two man sitting in a car parked in front of a medical institute where genetic experiments are performed. The same night someone breaks in the institute and kills a guard. Arno decides to investigate with the help of reporter Carlo Giordani. (imdb)
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    The Wax Mask
    Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes... (imdb)
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    Cemetery Without Crosses
    Hossien stars as a leather-clad killer, drawn into a tragic kidnap/murder plot by his former flame Michelle Mercier. An almost totally visual film with perhaps not more than two dozen lines of dialogue. (imdb)
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    Four Flies on Grey Velvet
    Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders... (imdb)
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    Mother of Tears
    An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city... (imdb)
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    Do You Like Hitchcock?
    A voyeuristic film student senses foul play when a murder strikes at the apartment complex across the street. (moviefone.com)
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    Legion of the Damned
    Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of twenty-eight slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next, along with fornicating American explosives technician Major Burke, to defuse underwater mines so that a commando squado can prepare for a June 10 invasion to destroy a tank gun. (imdb)
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    La puerta en la oscuridad
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    The Five Days of Milan
    The story takes place during the Italian Revolution of 1848.
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    The 5-Man Army
    Spaghetti western about a group of bandits, led by Peter Graves, who plan on robbing a train transporting gold for the Mexican army. (imdb)
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    The Devil\
    A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A school teacher almost runs over an old man with a box and takes him in. It's no accident that the old man has come into her life, and it quickly becomes apparent that he has plans for her, plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult. (imdb)
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    Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die
    A man, released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him. (imdb)
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    Probability Zero
    Silva leads a misfit commando squad on what somewhat predictably becomes a suicide mission behind German lines to infiltrate & destroy an impregnable Nazi fortress using a recycled torpedo. Gritty commando raids, some brutal small-unit battle scenes, convincing scuba combat footage and a grim overtone of doom for those involved make this one somewhat less of a cartoon Spaghetti Western with tanks and more of a "conventional" war movie. (imdb comments)
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    Dracula 3D
    Dario Argento's take on Bram Stoker's classic novel. The tale begins with Jonathan Harker, journeying by train and carriage from England to Count Dracula's crumbling, remote castle situated in the Carpathian Mountains on the border of Transylvania. The purpose of his mission is to catalogue the big library of Dracula. (mubi.com)
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    Metti, una sera a cena
    In this film, a liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. The writer has an affair with the another dinner guest, and soon the men and women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping sex sprees. (allmovie.com)
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    Comandamenti per un gangster
    A former gangster wants to avenge the murder of his sister and shed light on the disappearance of her husband, which occurred during the transport of a large cargo of gold. (imdb)
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    Così sia
    A bandit assembles a group of skilled thieves to rob his former partner-in-crime, who is now posing as a priest, and has stashed his money in a heavily-guarded bank safe. (imdb)
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    La rivoluzione sessuale
    14 people of different ages - 7 men and 7 women - gather in a comfortable hotel by the sea to perform an experiment inspired by the theories of Wilhelm Reich. (imdb)
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    Dark Glasses
    Diana, a young woman who lost her sight, finds a guide in a Chinese boy named Chin. Together they will track down a dangerous killer through the darkness of Italy.
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