Luís Melo

Luís Melo

Born: November 13, 1947
in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Movies for Luís Melo...

House of Izabel
Title: House of Izabel
Released: December 9, 2022
Type: Movie
In an isolated countryside house founded by an elite, surrounded by slavery memories, a crossdresser retreat is set up. Far from the Brazilian dictatorship of the 70’s, men dress themselves with a glamour and delirious reality. This forged freedom crumbles when the real world infiltrates the house. Crossing the thin line between lies and truths. A fatality is just a matter of time…
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An Eye and a Knife
Title: An Eye and a Knife
Released: October 25, 2018
Type: Movie
A group of friends working on an offshore oil rig maintain close bounds and do their best to face the difficulties presented by living and working isolated out in the middle of the sea. A job promotion triggers events that disrupt, in an irreversible way, the group friendship and the protagonist’s own life on land. He is tested by the force of destiny and experiences the drama of an ordinary man facing a gradual process of isolation.
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Title: The Other Side of Paradise
Character: Gustavo Vasconcelos
Released: October 23, 2017
Type: TV
After her marriage becomes a nightmare, the humble small town girl Clara is committed to a psychiatric hospital and prevented from seeing her son growing up. It was all a scheme by her manipulative mother-in-law, who wants to seize her lands and explore their emerald mines. Betrayed and humiliated, Clara bounces back and returns ten years later as a powerful and wealthy woman. Even thirsty for revenge and justice, she never loses her softness to win back her son's trust and maybe find a new love.
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Title: Under Pressure
Character: José Luis
Released: July 25, 2017
Type: TV
Inside a chaotic emergency room in Rio de Janeiro, a team of doctors are torn between their internal personal conflicts, the difficulties of the profession and the surprising dramas behind each patient‘s history, in a heroic attempt to save lives...See more
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Title: Rising Sun
Character: Kazuo Tanaka
Released: August 29, 2016
Type: TV
Alice is an independent woman, raised in a Japanese family; Mario is an immature guy of Italian origins. Two childhood friends from very distinct families, bond together by a complicity which spans generations. When Alice decides to live abroad, Mario begins to see in her more than just a friend. Now he will go out of his way to make this unlikely love story come to life in this romantic comedy tied by friendship.
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Title: Time After Time
Character: Massimo Pasqualino / Massimo Vicenzo
Released: July 13, 2015
Type: TV
Livia and Felipe are in a forbidden love story doomed to end tragically. A century later, they both have a new chance to make their love real again. “Time After Time” is an innovative romance set in two different eras in which characters hold the opportunity to make up for their mistakes, come to terms with the past and write themselves another story.
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The Other Side of Paradise
Title: The Other Side of Paradise
Character: Narração
Released: August 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.
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Title: Trail of Lies
Character: Atílio Pimenta Camargo/Alfredo Gentil
Released: May 20, 2013
Type: TV
Paloma is a willful woman whose newborn baby is kidnapped by her own brother, Félix, who plans to become sole heir to the family’s fortune. Bruno is an honest man who, during the same night, loses his wife and son in childbirth and miraculously finds Paloma’s child in a dumpster. Destiny will unite their lives in a plot of secrets, revelations, and disputes, with the unpredictable consequences of lives based on a dangerous and surprising network of lies.
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Title: Dinossaurs & Robots
Character: Oséas Guedes
Released: March 21, 2011
Type: TV
An innovative telenovela set against the backdrop of the discovery of ancient fossils by a top paleontologist and the invention of futuristic robots by a brilliant scientist.
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Chico Xavier
Title: Chico Xavier
Character: João Cândido
Released: April 2, 2010
Type: Movie
A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier.
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Title: Cinquentinha
Character: Joaquim Coutinho
Released: December 8, 2009
Type: TV
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Embodiment of Evil
Title: Embodiment of Evil
Character: Seu Américo
Released: August 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.
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Title: Eterna Magia
Character: Rafael
Released: May 14, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Cobras & Lagartos
Character: Orã Munhoz ("Conchita")
Released: April 24, 2006
Type: TV
Is it possible that in a world ruled by appearance, there is room for loyalty, ethics, true love, honesty and solidarity? Is it possible, today, when unrelenting consumption is a way of life, to find someone who equates more value to being rather than having? Cobras & Lagartos is an urban tragic comedy, modern and humanist, that deals with two increasingly different worlds: one which values loyalty and solidarity and the other, where the seduction of superfluity and the power of money reign.
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Cafundó
Title: Cafundó
Character: Monsignor João Soares
Released: September 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. João de Camargo represents the genesis of religious and cultural syncretism in Brazil.
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Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou
Title: Gaijin: Ama-me Como Sou
Character: Ramon Salina Bravo Salinas
Released: September 2, 2005
Type: Movie
In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her.
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Title: América
Character: Ramiro Hernandez
Released: March 14, 2005
Type: TV
Sol and Tião are born to different social backgrounds—she to a poor suburban family in Rio, and him to an even poorer family who raised cattle in West São Paulo State. They eventually meet, due to unlikely circumstances, but part again, as she has set as her ultimate priority to reach the United States or bust. While she comes to the U.S. to live as an illegal immigrant, he remains in Brazil and, despite many trials and tribulations, he becomes a successful rodeo cowboy.
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Olga
Title: Olga
Character: Léo Benário
Released: August 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.
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Title: Um Só Coração
Character: Cândido Portinari
Released: January 6, 2004
Type: TV
The story takes place between the 1920s and 1950s in Greater São Paulo. Going through historical moments, such as the Week of Modern Art, the Revolution of 1924, the economic crisis of 1929 and the Vargas Era, there is the story of Yolanda Penteado, a young woman from a traditional family of São Paulo's high society, who arouses admirations to go through. She had never been easily involved with any other admirer until she meets Martim, a young medical student who catches her eye. However, he was an advocate of the anarchist movement, causing disapproval of Yolanda's mother, Guiomar, but the two will fight to get together, even with the disapproval of the family.
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Title: A Casa das Sete Mulheres
Character: Bento Manuel Ribeiro
Released: January 7, 2003
Type: TV
When the men go to war, the women also battle. This tale takes place in the XIX century, during a terrible civil war. Italy’s revolutionary leader Garibaldi must choose between two loves: a sweet aristocratic lady or a brave woman who leaves her husband to accompany him into battle. This super-production recounts the saga of women who do not go to war but must bear pain, solitude and new passions while their husbands and fathers fight the battles.
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Separações
Title: Separações
Character: Opening night guest (uncredited)
Released: January 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Cabral is a 60 year old playwright who's married to Glorinha, an actress who's 20 years younger than him. They've been together for half of her live, and now they're getting bored...
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Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil
Title: Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil
Character: Vasco de Athayde
Released: November 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Diogo Álvares, a Portuguese map illustrator, reaches the Brazilian coast, after his caravel sinks. He is saved by the Indian chief Itaparica and his two daughters, Paraguaçu and Moema. They call him Caramuru and together they engage in a happy love triangle. But the chance to return to Portugal arises, and it is clear this amoral arrangement cannot last.
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A Dog's Will
Title: A Dog's Will
Character: Diabo
Released: September 15, 2000
Type: Movie
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.
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Title: O Cravo e a Rosa
Character: Nicanor Batista
Released: June 26, 2000
Type: TV
O Cravo e a Rosa is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo. It ran from June 26, 2000 to March 10, 2001. It is based on the Shakespearean comedy The Taming of the Shrew. It is currently being broadcast in Portugal, on SIC.
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Title: A Invenção do Brasil
Character: Dom Vasco de Athayde
Released: April 19, 2000
Type: TV
The legend of Caramuru, a Portuguese man that finds a paradise in Brazil, after stranded by a shipwreck, but has his heart tested when the chance to return to his country comes.
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Making of O Auto da Compadecida
Title: Making of O Auto da Compadecida
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Por Trás do Pano
Title: Por Trás do Pano
Character: Sérgio
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
A famous actor believes he has totally mastered his craft. A young and talented actress is open to new challenges. They meet, and confront each other; on, and off the stage. From his personal and artistic lethargy, he sees the possibilities of a new beginning, new opportunities, after starting to see her. The story unravels, as the title states, "behind the curtain."
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Title: O Auto da Compadecida
Character: Devil
Released: January 5, 1999
Type: TV
The (mis)adventures of João Grilo and Chicó in Brazil's Northeastern region. The four-chapter miniseries original version of O Auto da Compadecida.
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Title: Hilda Furacão
Character: Padre Ciro
Released: May 27, 1998
Type: TV
After stirring society by leaving her groom at the alter and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "Hilda the Hurricane", in the 50's Brazil. She could do fine if it wasn't for Malthus, a young novice said to be a saint, for whom she falls in love. However, the boy is kept under the strict, severe doctrine of Father Nelson, a conservative priest intolerant even to every minor sin. Things start getting harder when Roberto, Malthus' old friend and a communist reporter (the actual author of the story), tries to interview Hilda and disclosure the real reasons behind her radical change of mind. In the meantime, the middle-classes are terrified by the "leftist threat" in Brazilian politics.
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Doces Poderes
Title: Doces Poderes
Character: Araponga
Released: November 17, 1997
Type: Movie
A journalist is placed upon the management of a large broadcasting company to the capital of Brazil at the time of local elections. She must now face ideological and ethical questions, brought back by a left-wing former boyfriend and her own colleagues. At the same time, a free-lancer spy is sent by an obscure figure in politics to manipulate the elections and its media coverage.
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Title: O Amor Está no Ar
Character: Alberto Amaral Leite
Released: March 31, 1997
Type: TV
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Foreign Land
Title: Foreign Land
Character: Ígor
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: Movie
After the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to her native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger.
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Jenipapo
Title: Jenipapo
Character: "Christ"
Released: September 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Michael is a U.S. journalist who works for a Brazilian newspaper. One day he is put in charge of interviewing Father Louis Stephen, a famed catholic missionary who helps the needy in the jungles of Brazil. Yet he has one problem: the Father has rarely ever given an interview. However, Michael decides that he will be the first to have interviewed the Father personally, and goes on a journey to the center of Brazil, in search of the priest. Michael will soon know how hard it can be to get an interview, and that the Father's apparent media-shyness has deeper implications than he thought.
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Title: Cara & Coroa
Character: Rubens Del Rey Villar (Rubinho)
Released: July 24, 1995
Type: TV