Nuno Melo
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Nuno Melo.
Born: February 8, 1960
Place of Birth: Castelo Branco, Portugal
Known For
Her Own Destiny
A story about people who succeed in life thanks to nothing but their own efforts. Maria do Carmo is the main character of the telenovela; a mother of five who struggle to be successful in life, but whose most important will be recovering the love of her daughter who was kidnapped when she was just months old.
Delírio em Las Vedras
Seven competing reporters are assigned to cover the Carnavael de Torres Vedras in Lisbon. Each of the seven tries to attract as much audience as possible to their broadcast. The situation escalates at a masked ball.
Camilo & Filho Lda.
The Baron
A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Having arrived, he is invited to stay with the baron, who makes predictions about women, horses and politics while the mysterious Idalina serves food and drink. The inspector becomes inextricably entangled in the baron’s world.
The Divine Comedy
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
The Daughter
Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor. If he does not come home that same evening to celebrate her birthday he will never see her again. Ricardo is distracted by business or other commitments and he is too late for the last flight home. When he returns next day the apartment is empty and Leonor is gone. At first Ricardo thinks that it is only a game, but there are no phone calls or messages and after a while he gets worried and starts looking for her. He discovers that she has quit school without telling him and that she has lost all contact with her old friends. She has become a complete stranger.
The Amazed Spectator
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?
Tarde Demais
A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive.
Hay Road
This is the story of a man who after living over ten years isolated away from his country, returns to avenge His brother's death. Inspired by the writings of David Henry Thoreau, he is translating 'Civil Disobedience' into Portuguese. The action is set between 1908 and 1910, between the assassination of the Portuguese King and Prince and the creation of the Portuguese Republic, an era where anarchists who fight against the monarchy often cross the path of burglars. On a country where corruption is set, the state representatives try to rob, arrest and kill innocents. The main character faces the tyranny of the state and tries to save the rest of his family. But this is a country where nothing changes.
Day of Despair
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
Filmography
as Manuel
as Ermelindo - TV Cultura
as Marco
as Ricardo
as Ricardo
as Chico
as (voice)
as Branco
as Arnaldo Zeus
as Gilberto Costa
as Capitão
as Hugo
as Elias Pereira
as The Baron
as Libório Sardinha
as Xavier
as Jacinto Nicolau
as Guitarrista
as Alfredo Mascarenhas
as Joaquim
as Ice Cream Man
as Salvador
as Luís Ramalho
as José Eduardo
as O outro
as Constantino Pires
as Man
as Guilherme
as Ricardo
as Raúl Figueiredo
as Raul Figueiredo
as Antónyo Xoramyngas
as Padre
as Toni
as Anibal
as Joaquim
as Gigolo in Bar
as Cantor/Mancebo/Chico
as Rogélio
as The thug
as Alberto Chumbinho
as Vários Papéis
as Customer
as Porco
as Ku-Klux-Klan
as Male Nurse
as Joaquim da Silva
as Bruno
as Bandido