Danton Mello

Acting

Danton Mello

Born 1975-05-29 · Passos, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Danton Figueiredo Melo, known as Danton Mello (Passos, May 29, 1975) is a Brazilian actor and voice actor. In 1985, he began his artistic career when he was just ten years old, in the soap opera A Gata Comeu, in addition to some extra work and commercials. Among others, he voiced actor Leonardo DiCaprio in four feature films, including Titanic and The Beach in Brazil. He is the brother of fellow actor Selton Mello.

Acting credits

Bionic poster
5.9

When the progress of robotics makes Paralympic athletes the new sports stars, Maria dreams of competing against her sister. For that, she will have to enter a world of crime and violence.

Bionic

2024

Araguaya - A Conspiração do Silêncio poster
6.5

Film about an important episode in Brazilian History: the Araguaya guerrilla. In the 1970s, when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, some left-wing militants and peasants took arms against the Army, in the Amazon. Right in the middle of the conflict, there stood a French priest who had come to the region in the 1960s, and got involved in the events leading to the rebellion.

Araguaya - A Conspiração do Silêncio

2004

O Velho Fusca poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

O Velho Fusca

2026

Deixa Acontecer poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Deixa Acontecer

2026

The Clown poster
7.2

The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.

The Clown

2011

Mãe Fora da Caixa poster
6.0

Manu, a successful woman who thinks her life is under control, is shaken when she learns she's pregnant. She and her husband must face the doubts and challenges of parenthood in a light, humorous portrait of first-time family life.

Mãe Fora da Caixa

2025

Perfect Strangers poster
7.0

At a dinner party with seven friends, everyone decides to open up about their private lives on each other's cell phones. But what was supposed to be fun turns into chaos.

Perfect Strangers

2025

Chef Jack: The Adventurous Cook poster
6.4

Chef Jack and his assistant Leonard will travel through the Culinary Islands to participate in the biggest gastronomic competition in the world and, thus, try to defeat their opponents.

Chef Jack: The Adventurous Cook

2023

Apaixonada poster
6.5

Based on the book by Cris Souza Fontes, Apaixonada tells the story of a woman who realizes how monotonous her life is. She finds herself desperate and facing an identity crisis. From then on, she is forced to begin an exciting journey of self-discovery that takes her close to all the passions that life has to offer.

Apaixonada

2024

Deadbeat Dad poster
5.9

Diogo's 20th high school class reunion is coming up, and although he's married, sees it as an opportunity to hook up with his high school crush who will also be at the reunion. He and his wife have a young son, and everything is lined up so he can go to the reunion alone, hook up with the woman, and go home without his wife suspecting anything. Unfortunately for him, his wife's mother breaks her arm the night of the reunion and can't watch their son. Diogo scrambles to find a babysitter, ultimately settling on a nursery in a strange building. He goes to the party, meets up with the crush, but then has to leave. He and his three friends then go back to the nursery and pick up his son, who is wearing his favorite dog mask. While Diogo and his friends are on their way back to the reunion (he still hasn't hooked up with his former crush) he removes the dog mask and realizes the boy isn't his.

Deadbeat Dad

2015

Primaveras poster
NR

Short about Casimiro de Abreu, one of the most important Brazilian poets. It was made to be shown in schools, but today it can be watched at the museum which was one day Casimiro’s house.

Primaveras

2005

The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife poster
7.2

José Pedro de Freitas, better known as Zé Arigó, was a simple man who lived with his wife Arlete in Congonhas, Minas Gerais. During the 1950s, a time when Spiritism was not as well known and respected in the country, Arigó became a symbol of hope through his surgeries and spiritual cures. Based on a true story, Arigó, with the help of the spirit of Dr. Fritz, performed numerous spiritual surgeries on people from Brazil and the world.

The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife

2022

Intruso poster
6.0

An unwanted guest dictates rules to an average family, who must follow them without questioning and behave in a proper and controlled way.

Intruso

2016

Hebe poster
7.1

Hebe Camargo is one of the most emblematic entertainments in Brazil. At her 60s, she went on to control her own career and, despite the criticism, the dreadful husband and the powerful and sexist bosses, she revealed herself to the public as an extraordinary woman, capable of overcoming any personal or professional crisis.

Hebe

2019

Nobody Belongs to Nobody poster
7.5

Gabriela, Roberto's wife, is called to work in the office of Renato, a successful lawyer married to Gioconda. After that, the quartet begins to suffer from lies, exhausting relationships and tragedies.

Nobody Belongs to Nobody

2023

Um Tio Quase Perfeito 2 poster
6.4

Everything is going well in the relationship between Tony and his nephews until his sister's new suitor appears and becomes the trio's new favorite, making Tony jealous.

Um Tio Quase Perfeito 2

2021

Vai Que Dá Certo poster
6.1

5 friends have a plan to rob a transporter that can change their lives.

Vai Que Dá Certo

2013

Before I Forget poster
7.0

At 80, Polidoro decides to demolish the stability of his comfortable life as a retired judge and become owner of a strip club.

Before I Forget

2017

The Price of Peace poster
8.5

At the end of the 19th century, an influential man diplomatically defended the city of Curitiba against the action of revolutionaries in the south of Brazil to depose the country's president.

The Price of Peace

2003

O Concurso poster
5.2

Four candidates for a federal judge position embark on a madcap, no-holds-barred race to outdo one another, each committing his own brand of mayhem.

O Concurso

2013

Tudo Isto é Fado poster
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

Um Tio Quase Perfeito 3 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Um Tio Quase Perfeito 3

2026

What Is It Worth? poster
6.6

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.

What Is It Worth?

2005

A Esperança É a Última que Morre poster
5.5

Hortência is a dedicated, dreamy TV reporter, who hopes to stop doing boring reports and become an anchor of the local news. When she learns that the newspaper's anchor is about to be fired, she is excited about the big opportunity, but Vanessa also wants the job. Needing to find a way to secure her new post, Hortência invents a serial killer and starts "investigating" the case.

A Esperança É a Última que Morre

2015