For his seminal directorial debut, Argento took Fredric Brown’s novel The Screaming Mimi and transformed it into a horror-inflected whodunit of voyeuristic delirium.

Argento chased The Bird with the Crystal Plumage’s box-office success with his most accessible giallo thriller, a hybrid mystery/buddy movie that pairs Karl Malden’s blind cruciverbalist with James Franciscus’s intrigued reporter.

The final entry in Argento’s “Animal” trilogy of giallo thrillers follows a prog-rock drummer (Michael Brandon) who is blackmailed for a murder that he may or may not have committed.

Singer/songwriter Adriano Celentano stars in this broad and bleak farce, a period piece set during Italy’s Revolutions of 1848. Inspired by true events, this spaghetti western–style comedy warns viewers not to be seduced by nationalistic demagogues and the mobs that serve them.

In Argento’s most stylistically and narratively rich giallo thriller, David Hemmings stars as a jazz pianist who struggles to remember a vital piece of evidence after witnessing the murder of a German psychic (Macha Méril).

Dario Argento’s witchy freak-out is one of cinema’s most potent hallucinogens: a sustained spectacle of outrageously stylized violence and eye-popping art direction set to Goblin’s iconic prog-occult score.

A supernatural conspiracy unites Suspiria’s German dance academy with a cursed Upper West Side apartment building in this Art Nouveau meltdown, the second entry in Argento’s “Three Mothers” trilogy.

A deranged killer reenacts the work of popular mystery novelist Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) in this exuberantly perverse giallo thriller, Argento’s macabre riposte to his armchair-psychologist critics.

In Argento’s singularly bizarre, paranormal-tinged giallo, Jennifer Connelly stars as a sleepwalking, telepathic 14-year-old who teams up with a forensic entomologist (Donald Pleasence) and his nurse—a trained chimpanzee named Inga—to investigate a string of brutal murders.

A budding soprano (Cristina Marsillach) is tormented by a murderous stalker during a production of Giuseppi Verdi’s Macbeth in this unnerving mid-career gem, inspired by Argento’s unsuccessful real-life bid to mount a stage production of Verdi’s Rigoletto.

Harvey Keitel stars as an unlovable, Weegee-esque photographer who grows obsessed with a mysterious black cat that keeps wandering into his darkroom in this unnerving pastiche, Argento’s contribution to the Two Evil Eyes horror pairing.

This chilly mystery thriller follows Aura (Asia Argento), an anorexic teenager on the run after her parents’ murder at the hands of a mysterious serial killer.

Asia Argento delivers her first great lead performance in this dark psychological thriller, starring as a police officer who’s raped and stalked by a killer (Thomas Kretschmann) after fainting in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery.

In Argento’s bloody adaptation of Leroux gothic classic, the outwardly handsome Phantom (Julian Sands) woos Christine (Asia Argento) even as he must evade the pursuit of István Bubik’s grubby Rat Catcher.

Max von Sydow plays a retired policeman tasked with solving a decades-old cold case known as “The Dwarf Murders,” in this Turin-set whodunit.

A killer challenges a Roman police inspector (Stefania Rocca) and a visiting Irish cop (Liam Cunningham) to a series of high-stakes online poker games in this characteristically tart, Dogme 95-inspired poliziesco detective thriller.

Originally intended to be the pilot episode of a cinema-themed Italian TV series, this playful thriller follows Giulio (Elio Germano), a clueless academic and reluctant voyeur who stumbles upon a murder plot involving his sexy neighbor (Elisabetta Rocchetti) and a mysterious blonde (Chiara Conti).

In this giddy and gross conclusion to Argento’s “Three Mothers” trilogy, Daria Nicolodi and Udo Kier return to help Asia Argento fight the pitiless, bloodthirsty witch Mater Lachrymarum (Moran Atias) and her cannibalistic acolytes.

The Stendhal Syndrome co-stars Thomas Kretschmann and Asia Argento reunite as Count Dracula and Lucy in Argento’s idiosyncratic update of Bram Stoker’s foundational vampire novel, shot in vivid 3D by Luciano Tovoli.

In this unusually tender giallo thriller, Diana (Ilenia Pastorelli), a Roman sex worker, and Chin (Andrea Zhang), a Chinese-Italian preteen, try to catch a wire-wielding serial strangler in the aftermath of a fateful car crash.