46 Dario Argento Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Jill McBain becomes the owner of a prime railroad land after her new husband and his children are assassinated by gunman Frank who works for the crippled railroad baron Morton. To protect Jill from Frank, a fugitive Cheyenne and a cryptic Harmonica unite. However, Harmonica also has a personal score to settle with Frank.

Deep Red is a horror mystery thriller film which tells the story of Marcus Daly, a musician, who discovers the body of a psychic medium who was brutally murdered. He soon gets drawn into the investigation and works together with a reporter to solve the case, but eventually, his friend gets murdered by the same killer. Now they realize that if they don’t uncover the murderer’s identity soon, they might become the next victims.  

American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion secures admission into prestigious German school Tanz Dance Academy. The night she reaches, she sees a girl fleeing from the academy and the girl is found murdered the next day. Suzy often feels ill, and experiences odd occurrences, strange sounds, maggot infestations. Academy’s members die under suspicious circumstances. Her resolute investigations reveal that the academy is mere front for sinister witchcraft.

Peter Neal, a prolific writer visits Rome with his new novel on a promotional tour. Things turn ugly when someone familiar with his work begins a series of homicides and Neal is pulled in these murder mysteries. The police is baffled, and Neal, along with Anne and Gianni, investigates on his own, and gets closer to the identity of the psychopath.

Sam is an American writer vacationing in Rome with his girlfriend Julia. While visiting an art gallery, he witnesses a woman being attacked by a mysterious assailant. He becomes a key witness as the assailant is believed to be an infamous serial killer. He begins searching for clues that can help him identify the killer, but soon it seems that he might be the next victim.

Inferno is a horror film which tells us the story of Rose, who learns that the apartment where she once lived, used to be the residence of three witches. She requests her brother to come and meet her, but by the time he arrives, she is already dead.

An unknown individual breaks into the Terzi Medical Institute without stealing anything. Calabresi, one of the doctors in the institute, thinks that he knows the identity of the perpetrator. However, before he could reveal his name, he is killed. Meanwhile, a newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to catch the killer.

Roberto Tobias is a drummer who is being followed by a suspicious stalker. He decides to chase and confront whoever is stalking him, but it leads to a struggle where he accidentally stabs and apparently kills the man. Soon, he begins to receive letters from a man who seems to know about his crime. He begins to blackmail Roberto. Meanwhile, his friends start dying one by one.

Susie Bannion is a young American dancer who arrives in Berlin to audition for an internationally famous dance company. However, things get complicated when she is given the role of lead dancer, and the woman she replaces starts accusing the company’s female directors of practicing witchcraft.

Opera is a mystery horror thriller film which tells the story of a young opera singer who finds herself stalked by a psychotic fan. He decides to go on a killing spree, eliminating all the people who are associated with her.

Phenomena is a horror mystery film which revolves around a young girl who has an unusual but interesting ability which allows her to communicate with insects. She is soon transferred to a Swiss boarding school. When a string of murders occur, she thinks her abilities might prove very useful.  

Demons is a horror film which revolves around a group of people who come to a mysterious movie theater after receiving an invitation. However, they soon find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.

During the chaos of the final days of the Italian Revolution, a thief and a baker travel through the streets of Milan. 

This comedy film tells the story of a 50-year-old entrepreneur named Tullio,  who is separated from his wife. However, due to religious reasons, he refuses to get divorced.

A retired cop with insomnia teams up with a young detective to find a serial killer who has begun his killing spree again, after a period of seventeen years.

Marie is a vampire with a conscience who only sucks the blood of criminals. And there is no shortage of victims on the streets of Pittsburgh, where a gang war is taking place. When she is unable to properly dispose of one of her victims, who is a gangster named Sal, he becomes a vampire himself. Therefore, she joins forces with an undercover cop, in order to bring Sal down.    

A cathedral is built over a mass grave site, filled with dead bodies that were considered possessed. Hundreds of years later, when a young librarian removes a rock in the catacombs, it unleashes the evil within, leading to many strange and sinister events.

A young policewoman is trying to track down an elusive rapist and serial killer. However, things are not easy for her, since she is suffering from a psychosomatic ailment that gives her dizziness and hallucinations when she gets exposed to paintings and artistic masterpieces.

Based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Two Evil Eyes is an anthology horror film telling two different stories. The first story is about a dying old man named Ernest Valdemar, whose scheming wife is planning to take his money, along with her lover Dr. Robert Hoffman. Hoffman tries to hypnotize Valdemar, but things don’t go as expected, as Valdermar dies during the process, and gets stuck between the world of the dead and the living. The second story is about a violinist who adopts a stray black cat, but problem is that her boyfriend dislikes it.   

A group of residents and visitors are trapped inside a high-rise apartment building. To make things worse, the building is infested with demons who are only looking to hunt them down.   

Trauma is a horror thriller film which tells the story of a young woman Aura who escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man named David who shows willingness in helping her find the man who had murdered her parents.

After losing many of his men to German troops, an Irish army colonel leads a platoon of convicted criminals so that they can prepare the Normandy beaches for the D Day Landings.

Mother of Tears is a supernatural horror film which tells the story of an American girl named Sarah, who is studying art in Rome. When she opens an ancient box, she finds a tunic, a dagger, and three statues representing three witches. But by opening the box, she unknowingly triggers the return of the demonic agents of Mater Lachrymarum. After her boss is killed, it is now up to her alone to stop the witch’s reign of terror.

After a tourist is kidnapped, a British Interpol agent named John Brennan is sent to Rome to investigate. He soon learns that the culprit is a notorious serial killer who kidnaps and kills young women and shows it to the police on web cam after challenging them to free the victim. In order to put an end to this insanity, an Italian policewoman teams up with Brennan.

Giallo is a horror thriller film which tells the story of a flight attendant named Linda, who informs the police after her sister Celine gets kidnapped. Eventually, detective Enzo is assigned to the case. Soon, a dying woman is found outside a church, who was repeating ‘Yellow’. Unsure about what this could mean, Enzo and Linda continue to search for the culprit, while also looking for more clues.

The Phantom of the Opera is a horror drama film which tells the story of a man who has been living in the sewers beneath the Paris Opera House for a long time. He kills anyone who tries to venture into his underground chambers. Things take a turn when he falls for a woman named Christine.