List of the best Dario Argento movies: Deep Red(1975), Suspiria(1977), The Bird With the Crystal Plumage(1970), The Cat o' Nine Tails(1971), Sleepless(2001), Two Evil Eyes(1990), The Stendhal Syndrome(1996), The Card Player(2004), Terror at the Opera(1987), Creepers(1985), Four Flies on Grey Velvet(1971), Do You Like Hitchcock?(2005) ... ...
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Italy
1975
126 Minutes
Director
David Hemmings Daria Nicolodi Gabriele Lavia Clara Calamai Macha Méril Glauco Mauri Eros Pagni Giuliana Calandra
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A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Italy
1977
92 Minutes
Director
Jessica Harper Stefania Casini Joan Bennett Eva Axén Flavio Bucci Udo Kier Alida Valli Susanna Javicoli
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An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Mystery & Thriller
Italy|West Germany
1970
98 Minutes
Director
Tony Musante Suzy Kendall Eva Renzi Enrico Maria Salerno Mario Adorf Umberto Rano Giuseppe Castellano Renato Romano
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An American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Mystery & Thriller
Italy|France|West Germany
1971
112 Minutes
Director
Karl Malden James Franciscus Catherine Spaak Cinzia De Carolis Carlo Alighiero Pier Paolo Capponi Horst Frank Rada Rassimov
A newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company's experimental, top-secret research projects and in so doing, both become targets of the killer.
Mystery & Thriller
Italy
2001
117 Minutes
Director
Max von Sydow Stefano Dionisi Chiara Caselli Rossella Falk Paolo Maria Scalondro Roberto Zibetti Gabriele Lavia Massimo Sarchielli Barbara Mautino Elena Marchesini Conchita Puglisi
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An older, retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer who's resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year period.
Horror
Italy|USA
1990
120 Minutes
Director
Harvey Keitel George Romero Adrienne Barbeau Ramy Zada Bingo O'Malley Jeff Howell E.G. Marshall Sally Kirkland Madeleine Potter
Two horror tales based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, directed by famed horror directors George A. Romero and Dario Argento. A greedy wife kills her husband, but not completely; a sleazy reporter adopts a strange black cat.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Italy
1996
119 Minutes
Director
Asia Argento Thomas Kretschmann Marco Leonardi Luigi Diberti Paolo Bonacelli Julien Lambroschini John Quentin Lorenzo Crespi
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Mystery & Thriller
Italy
2004
102 Minutes
Director
Stefania Rocca Liam Cunningham Silvio Muccino Adalberto Maria Merli Fiore Argento Vera Gemma
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A Rome policewoman teams up with a British Interpol agent to find a crafty serial killer who plays a taunting game of cat-and-mouse with the police by abducting and killing young women and showing it over an Internet web cam.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1987
90 Minutes
Director
Cristina Marsillach Urbano Barberini Daria Nicolodi Ian Charleson Antonella Vitale William McNamara
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A hooded figure forces a young diva (Cristina Marsillach) to watch as he murders performers in a production of Verdi's opera "Macbeth."
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1985
110 Minutes
Director
Jennifer Connelly Donald Pleasence Dalila Di Lazzaro Fausta Avelli Patrick Bauchau Federica Mastroianni Francesca Ottaviani Daria Nicolodi
An American (Jennifer Connelly) at a Swiss finishing school calls on insects to help a paralyzed scientist (Donald Pleasence) fight a monster.
Mystery & Thriller
1971
104 Minutes
Director
Michael Brandon Mimsy Farmer Jean-Pierre Marielle Francine Racette Bud Spencer Aldo Bufi Landi Calisto Calisti Marisa Fabbri
Mystery & Thriller
2005
93 Minutes
Director
Elio Germano Chiara Conti Elisabetta Rocchetti Cristina Brondo Iván Morales Edoardo Stoppa Elena Maria Bellini Horacio José Grigaitis Giuseppe Loconsole Milvia Marigliano
A film student (Elio Germano) investigates the murder of his sexy neighbor's (Elisabetta Rocchetti) mother.