3 Movies Directed by Asia Argento

Scarlet Diva

Scarlet Diva

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-05-26

Languages:

English, Italian, French

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.2 (1790 Reviews)

Director:

Asia Argento

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Anna Battista is a young, popular, 24-year-old Italian-born International film actress who engages herself on a hectic and self-destructive spree which takes her across Europe and to America to shed her "boy-toy" image to become an "artist" in order to write and direct herself in a semi-biography movie of herself titled "Scarlet Diva." After working in Rome, and winning a presigious film award in Milan, Anna travels to Paris to save her best friend from an abusive relationship, then avoids sleazy film producers in Los Angeles, meets and falls in love with a rock star who abandons her, finds out later that she's pregnant, and begins using drugs to numb her pain at this predictament she's gotten herself into.

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-01-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK, France, Japan

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (5127 Reviews)

Director:

Asia Argento

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Laura Albert (short stories)

Asia Argento (screenplay)

Alessandro Magania

Fullplot:

The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife style and is introduced to booze and drugs and mentally, physically and sexually abused by Sarah, her lovers and her religiously fanatic family.

Misunderstood

Misunderstood

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-06-05

Languages:

Italian, French, English

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (459 Reviews)

Director:

Asia Argento

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Barbara Alberti (screenplay)

Asia Argento

Fullplot:

Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.

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