Dario Argento — Playwright (26)
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The Wax Mask (1997) WikiData IMDb TMDB
M.D.C. - Maschera di cera
director: Sergio Stivaletti actor: Robert Hossein / Romina Mondello …
other title: M.D.C. - Maschera di cera / 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. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...
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The 5-Man Army (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Un esercito di cinque uomini
director: Don Taylor actor: Peter Graves / Bud Spencer …
other title: Un esercito di 5 uomini / Exército de 5 Homens …
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.
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Love Circle (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Metti, una sera a cena
director: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant / Florinda Bolkan …
other title: Metti, una sera a cena / Disons, un soir à dîner …
A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and the writer has an affair with the another dinner guest. Soon the three men and two women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping sex sprees where everyone's morals are challenged in the wake of the sexual revolution.
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The Sexual Revolution (1968) WikiData IMDb TMDB
La rivoluzione sessuale
director: Riccardo Ghione actor: Christian Aligny / Laura Antonelli …
other title: La rivoluzione sessuale / La Révolution sexuelle …
Fourteen people of different ages - seven men and seven women - gather in a comfortable hotel by the sea to carry out an experiment inspired by the theories of an Austrian psychoanalyst. The creator - Professor Emilio Missiroli - wants to show that only a thousand breaking taboos' that stifle the sexual life can liberate man from his existential malaise. Every night, so, for a whole week, men and women of the group will couple through a draw, without giving any importance to their feelings, thus demonstrating that these can and should do without. Based on Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution.
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The Church (1989) IMDb TMDB
La chiesa
director: Michele Soavi actor: Hugh Quarshie / Tomas Arana …
other title: La chiesa / A Catedral …
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.
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Sleepless (2001) IMDb TMDB
Non ho sonno
director: Dario Argento actor: Max von Sydow / Stefano Dionisi …
other title: Non ho sonno / Le Sang des innocents …
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.
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The Card Player (2004) IMDb TMDB
Il cartaio
director: Dario Argento actor: Stefania Rocca / Liam Cunningham …
other title: Il cartaio / Jogador Misterioso …
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer.
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Demons (1985) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Dèmoni
director: Lamberto Bava actor: Urbano Barberini / Natasha Hovey …
other title: Dèmoni / Demons: Filhos das Trevas …
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
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Dark Glasses (2022) IMDb TMDB
Occhiali neri
director: Dario Argento actor: Ilenia Pastorelli / Asia Argento …
other title: Occhiali neri / Lunettes noires
Diana, a high-class prostitute trying to escape from a serial killer, suffers a car accident that leaves her blind and kills the family of Chin, a ten-year-old boy.
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
4 mosche di velluto grigio
director: 达里奥·阿基多 actor: Michael Brandon / Mimsy Farmer …
other title: 灰天鹅绒上的四只苍蝇 / 4 mosche di velluto grigio
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...
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
★ 7.0 (5 ratings) director: Dario Argento actor: Tony Musante / Suzy Kendall …
other title: L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo / Fuglen med krystalfjerpragten …
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite he and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
4 mosche di velluto grigio
director: Dario Argento actor: Michael Brandon / Mimsy Farmer …
other title: 4 mosche di velluto grigio / Fire fluer …
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.