Luís Melo
Birthday: Born in 1947-11-13 in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Deathday: Alive
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Eterna Magia
Character: Rafael
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Sob Pressão
Character: José Luis
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...
Um Só Coração
Character: Cândido Portinari
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...
O Outro Lado do Paraíso
Character: Gustavo Vasconcelos
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...
Sol Nascente
Character: Kazuo Tanaka
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....
Cobras & Lagartos
Character: Orã Munhoz ("Conchita")
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....
Morde & Assopra
Character: Oséas Guedes
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....
Além do Tempo
Character: Massimo Pasqualino / Massimo Vicenzo
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....
O Cravo e a Rosa
Character: Nicanor Batista
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....
Cinquentinha
Character: Joaquim Coutinho
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Cara & Coroa
Character: Rubens Del Rey Villar (Rubinho)
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Amor à Vida
Character: Atílio Pimenta Camargo/Alfredo Gentil
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....
O Amor Está no Ar
Character: Alberto Amaral Leite
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Hilda Furacão
Character: Padre Ciro
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' o...
O Auto da Compadecida
Character: Devil
The (mis)adventures of João Grilo and Chicó in Brazil's Northeastern region. The four-chapter miniseries original version of O Auto da Compadecida....
A Casa das Sete Mulheres
Character: Bento Manuel Ribeiro
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....
América
Character: Ramiro Hernandez
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....
Vale Tudo
Character: Bartolomeu
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A Padroeira
Character: Santiago / Padre Molina
A Padroeira was a Brazilian soap opera produced and displayed at the time of 18 hours by Rede Globo, between June 18, 2001 and February 23, 2002, and presented in 215 chapters. It was written by Walcyr Carrasco collaboration with Duca Rachid and directed by Walter Avancini, and had Deborah Secco, Luigi Baricelli, Elizabeth Savalla and Maurício Mattar in leading roles....
Amor Eterno Amor
Character: Dimas Sobral
Amor Eterno Amor is a Brazilian telenovela produced by Rede Globo and exhibited in the schedule of 18 hours. Written by Elizabeth Jhin and directed by Roberta Richards, Fábio Strazzer, Luciana Oliveira Paulo Ghelli, Pedro Vasconcelos and Rogério Gomes, it was released on March 5, 2012, ending on September, 7 of the same year, replacing A Vida da Gente....
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Embodiment of Evil
Character: Seu Américo
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....
A Dog's Will
Character: Diabo
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town 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....
Chico Xavier
Character: João Cândido
A biography of spiritual medium and author Francisco Candido Xavier....
Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil
Character: Vasco de Athayde
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....
Separações
Character: Opening night guest (uncredited)
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......
Olga
Character: Léo Benário
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....
Cafundó
Character: Monsignor João Soares
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....
House of Izabel
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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…...
Alma
Character: Jordano
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Doces Poderes
Character: Araponga
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....
Jenipapo
Character: "Christ"
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 inter...
The Other Side of Paradise
Character: Narração
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....
Foreign Land
Character: Ígor
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring....
An Eye and a Knife
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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....
Making of O Auto da Compadecida
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