Alexandre Melo

Alexandre Melo

Movies for Alexandre Melo...

Pacifiction
Title: Pacifiction
Character: Le Portugais
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints.
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O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
Title: O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
Character: Vítor
Released: September 10, 2016
Type: Movie
In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred rituals. Indifferent to the people’s protest, who believe in the magical powers of the stones and that the region’s drought is due to the rocks’ destruction, José Vitorino hires an architect to plan his new house. On christmas eve, in the middle of the winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a dolmen, once an altar for bloody sacrifices in more remote times, releases a harmful spell. A race against time to reverse the faulty charm begins.
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Freud und Friends
Title: Freud und Friends
Released: February 5, 2015
Type: Movie
A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.
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Taprobana
Title: Taprobana
Character: Petrarch
Released: June 11, 2014
Type: Movie
In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem "Os Lusiadas." He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.
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Fratelli
Title: Fratelli
Released: January 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a playful, vibrant ode to bacchanalia, classicism and homoeroticism.
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The Hips of J.W.
Title: The Hips of J.W.
Character: Jornalista da tê-que-não-vê
Released: October 29, 1997
Type: Movie
Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.
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Porto Santo
Title: Porto Santo
Character: Aircraft commander
Released: August 8, 1997
Type: Movie
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter. A girl photo journalist profits to stay the extra-needed days for repair, to visit the island - and eventually she'll become part of complex relationships among some of the secluded people of the island. Also, a yacht lost in the high seas in 1947 reappears from the misty horizon 50 years later - to unite Fanny and João, a contemporary navigator.
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Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho
Title: Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho
Character: Producer
Released: July 14, 1994
Type: Movie
On an isolated Portuguese island, a nameless man makes a mental journey which brings him into contact with the strange and menacing world without peace and harmony.
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Family Matters
Title: Family Matters
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him.