Dario Argento

Director · Born 7 September 1940 in Rome, Lazio, Italy · 25 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

12 of Dario Argento’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 8 on Cineasterna, 3 on Netflix, 1 on Pluto TV and 1 on Prime Video. Highest rated available: Vortex (2021) ★ 7.4.

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.

Acting

• Vortex (2021)

Directing

• Suspiria (1977)
• Opera (1987)
• Phenomena (1985)
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
• Tenebre (1982)
• Dark Glasses (2022)

Writing

• Suspiria (1977)
• Opera (1987)
• Demons 2 (1986)
• Phenomena (1985)
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
• Demons (1985)
• Tenebre (1982)
• Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (1968)
• Cemetery without Crosses (1969)
• Dark Glasses (2022)

Producing

• Opera (1987)
• Demons 2 (1986)
• Phenomena (1985)
• Demons (1985)
• She Will (2022)

Music

• Suspiria (1977)

As self

• Ennio (2022)
• Dario Argento: Panico (2024)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Deep Red (1975)
• Inferno (1980)
• The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
• The Mother of Tears (2007)
• Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
• Two Evil Eyes (1990)
• Masters of Horror (2005)
• The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
• Sleepless (2001)