Acting

António Melo

Born

1963-03-13 (63)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

IMDb profile

Known for

6.3

Across several generations, groups of young Portuguese people navigate school life and summer holidays while dealing with friendships, first loves, rivalries, family conflicts and decisions that shape their future. Each season introduces new protagonists, schools and challenges, exploring themes related to adolescence, identity, responsibility and belonging. Sport, music, dance and other forms of expression accompany their journeys of growing up, marked by dreams, choices and ever-changing relationships.

Strawberries with Sugar

2003

6.4

No synopsis available yet.

A Única Mulher

2015

9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Os Malucos do Riso

1995

7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Santa Bárbara

2015

6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Anjo Selvagem

2001

No synopsis available yet.

Deixa Que Te Leve

2009

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Mário de Carvalho.

Uma Vida Toda Empatada

2021

No synopsis available yet.

O Aplaudido Dramaturgo Curado pelas Pílulas Pink

2025

Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó poster

7.3

Follows the Bourbon de Linhaça family and their precious Necklace of São Cajó, that's been in the family for over 3500 years and hides secrets, curses and a mythical cod recipe.

Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó

2023

No synopsis available yet.

Além do Sol Posto

2022

6.2

Lúcia is raped by her husband and presses charges against him. She fights the Portuguese legal system along with the Prosecutor's Assistant, Maria João Correia, to force her husband, the son of the State's Vice Attorney, into Court. The case takes place in closed session where Lúcia tries to find justice in a predominantly male world.

Submission

2020

5.3

Contemplating the failure of his life, Rogério drinks until losing control of his actions and involves himself in a bar brawl. His alcoholic drift takes him to the city port, where he falls asleep while watching passing ships. When a young woman appears in the night, seemingly running from something, Rogério offers to help and enters a nightmare he never imagined it could become his.

The Drunk

2024

2010s · 2 titles

No artwork available

5.0

After being sentenced to community service, Sara begins working with Artur, a lonely septuagenarian in a wheelchair.

Orphan of the Past

2012

5.5

A plot that surrounds police officers, politicians and consultants who crudely demonstrate the lines apparently hidden of the political system and public institutions.

O Inimigo Sem Rosto

2010

2000s · 14 titles

5.2

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...

A Shot in the Dark

2005

5.8

A group of innocent hostages is left to their own deaths facing a clockwork bomb, while the whole country watches them on the TV.

A Bomba

2002

5.1

Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a woman a « fatale » one, gets them away from their path. And the three of them – two others will quickly join them- find themselves involved in a strange case, that of a fake painting robbery. Who said crime is not worth?

Tudo Isto é Fado

2004

5.4

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.

The Mystery of Sintra

2007

7.0

A story about two people (Clara and Tó), from different economic backgrounds, who love each other, but whose love is not accepted by everyone, especially by the father of Clara, who will do everything he can to stop their love. Things go even worse when Clara becomes pregnant.

Amor Perdido

2000

6.0

You already know the legendary singer. For the first time, you'll get to know the woman behind the myth. The story of singing legend Amália Rodrigues who ruled the famous Portuguese acoustic guitar and vocals based music genre called fado.

Amália

2008

5.3

After having an "apocalyptic vision" in a peep-show cabin, Zezé decides to enter in the Order of the Caracolários Descalços. Tóni visits his friend, that is in a monastery. The reencounter of these old friends makes them go back in time and remember their adventures...

Filme da Treta

2006

5.9

Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.

The Art of Stealing

2008

7.0

Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço, being dazzled by their strength, independence and freedom. The man will be caught by the passionate desire and the fatal attraction that she causes.

Do outro lado do mundo

2008

4.8

The "Spirit World", a red diamond with supernatural powers, stolen five centuries before, of the hands of the last Aztec emperor, is the center of this adventure in a cursed house in the wilds of the Sintra hills. The heiress of the house, Filipa, enlists the help of our heroes in search of the precious stone, but there are many obstacles to overcome. Facing ghosts of Indian warriors, statues that come alive, bats, trap doors, secret passageways and a German fearsome killer seeking revenge, our heroes will have to gather all their strength and wits to reach the mythical diamond before it is too late.

Uma Aventura na Casa Assombrada

2009

5.7

The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis family, reduced to a widow and son, tries to hold out against the young, despotic mayor. No less effective then actions are anonymous rumors and accusations, which often stir the inhabitants' moves.

In Evil Hour

2006

5.7

This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in which she'll have the opportunity to feel free.

Kiss Me

2004

6.1

Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.

The Forest

2002

No synopsis available yet.

Sangue Frio

2006

1990s · 3 titles

6.6

Tó, a black boy from Zona J, a tough neighborhood in Lisbon, falls in love with a white girl, Carla. Tó dreams of living in Angola and taking Carla with him. However, the reality the two teens are in complicates their plans...

Zona J

1998

6.0

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

In the Shadow of the Vultures

1998

7.2

Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this year, the presence of Nina, a prostitute and a hunt that end in a shootout, will call their instincts and traumatic pasts for one last mission...

Inferno

1999

Series credits

6.3

Strawberries with Sugar

2003

6.4

No synopsis available yet.

A Única Mulher

2015

9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Os Malucos do Riso

1995

7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Santa Bárbara

2015

6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Anjo Selvagem

2001

No synopsis available yet.

Deixa Que Te Leve

2009

5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Saber Amar

2003

5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Belmonte

2013

8.7

Television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.

Tell Me How It Happened

2007

7.0

Diogo Almada is a successful account manager at a telecommunications company who is struggling with serious stress and anxiety issues due to the constant state of pressure he lives in. His situation becomes worse when he suffers a stroke which puts him in hospital. There, doctors tell him that if he doesn't slow down things could become much worse for him in the future. He also meets the owner of a vegetables and herbs greenery in Beirais, a small village in the midlands, who is looking to sell it. Diogo then decides to buy him out and risk it as a farmer himself. He wants his girlfriend Teresa to come along with him, but she refuses to leave Lisbon due to her career and also because she doesn't want to give up her city comforts. But Diogo decides to move to Beirais anyway, where he is faced with an entirely different reality from what he’s used to.

Welcome to Beirais

2013

7.0

"Inspector Max" is a Portuguese television series created by Virgílio Castelo e Produções Fictícias and broadcast on TVI. Its story is a dog called "Max", who is caught by Inspector Jorge Mendes' two sons (Fernando Luís). Jorge Mendes is a lonely man whose wife died when his children were still small. He works at the DIC of Setúbal, Department of Criminal Investigation, in the 1st season. The successful DIC team from Setúbal was invited to go to DECC (Special Department for Combating Crime) and started the 2nd season. His boss, Graça Madureira (Fátima Belo), after some cases resolved in the DECC, was invited to join Interpol. In the 2nd season, the place is occupied by actress Sílvia Rizzo. Max, Jorge and Sérgio, Jorge's best friend, constitute the victorious trio. A series based on mystery and case solving.

Inspetor Max

2004

7.0

Inspetor Max

2004

8.7

Love, passion, mystery, betrayal makes the days of the Pôr do Sol estate. The Bourbon de Linhaça family owns the Pôr do Sol estate, but not everything is rosy...

Pôr do Sol

2021

3.7

A story with multiple plotlines, portraying the 24 hours of life in the beautiful city of Lisbon. It begins with three significant events: a wedding that is about to be cancelled, a crime, and the disappearance of a child. This plot centers on the lives of three sisters.

No One Like You

2005

9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nico d'Obra

1993

7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Médico de Família

1998

No synopsis available yet.

Regresso a Sizalinda

2010

8.5

No synopsis available yet.

A Minha Família é Uma Animação

2001

8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Diário de Maria

1998

9.0

Tília is a fortune teller, that writes down all her patient's secrets in a notebook. One day after a earthquake she looses it, and then, everyone's secrets can be found.

Street of Flowers

2022

No synopsis available yet.

Giras & Falidas

2014

9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maré Alta

2004

6.7

Filha da Lei, a criminal series on a Chief Inspector, Isabel Garcia, and the investigation of the most important police case in Portugal in the last 20 years. Garcia is faced with the greatest challenge of her career when she is assigned to lead the Investigation of the violent serial murders that devastate the city. Samuel Lopes, Trainee Inspector with a degree in Criminal Psychology, joins the Garcia Brigade where he will have to earn his place and the respect of the most experienced inspectors. The interaction with the Trainee Inspector helps Garcia to better understand his daughter Sara, a 16-year-old teenager who was married to the implacable journalist Jaime.

Filha da Lei

2017

No synopsis available yet.

O Atentado

2020

8.0

When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.

Ballet Rose

1998

7.3

A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's.

Os Filhos do Rock

2013

Conspiracy Theories

Teorias da Conspiração

2019

No synopsis available yet.

Vento Norte

2021

7.5

Reality is much stranger than fiction. There is a scandal that could be revealed and the Portuguese Government is nervous. The Minister of Culture and her team have a crazy idea that, for that reason, can work: to produce, together with Brazil, the biggest and most spectacular telenovela of all time: "Corte Tropical".