Selton Mello — Actor (21)
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Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Uma História de Amor e Fúria
director: Luiz Bolognesi actor: Selton Mello / Camila Pitanga …
other title: Rio 2096 - Una storia d'amore e furia / Rio 2096: Uma História de Amor e Fúria …
“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
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To the Left of the Father (2001) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Lavoura arcaica
director: Luiz Fernando Carvalho actor: Selton Mello / Raul Cortez …
other title: Lavoura Arcaica / A la izquierda del padre …
In 1940s São Paulo, Pedro’s tasked to retrieve his estranged brother André. André’s departure stems from a domineering father, an overly affectionate mother, and Pedro’s jealousy over the father’s favoritism. Further complicating matters is André’s unconventional relationship with their sister, Ana.
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Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Lisbela e o Prisioneiro
director: Guel Arraes actor: Selton Mello / Débora Falabella …
other title: Lisbela e o Prisioneiro
Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.
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A Dog's Will (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
O Auto da Compadecida
director: Guel Arraes actor: Matheus Nachtergaele / Selton Mello …
other title: O Auto da Compadecida / Will A Dog
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.
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The Invisible Woman (2009) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Mulher Invisível
director: Cláudio Torres actor: Selton Mello / Luana Piovani …
other title: A Mulher Invisível
A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!
brazil filmes
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My Name Ain't Johnny (2008) [Movie] TMDB
Meu Nome não é Johnny
director: Mauro Lima actor: Selton Mello / Cleo …
other title: Meu Nome não é Johnny / Meu Nome Não É Johnny
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
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Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil (2001) [Movie] TMDB
Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil
director: Guel Arraes actor: Selton Mello / Camila Pitanga …
other title: Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil
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.
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Nina (2004) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Nina
director: Heitor Dhalia actor: Guta Stresser / Myrian Muniz …
After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
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Drained (2006) [Movie] TMDB
O Cheiro do Ralo
director: Heitor Dhalia actor: Selton Mello / Paula Braun …
other title: O Cheiro do Ralo / O Cheiro do Ralo (Olor a caño)
A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.
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O Auto da Compadecida (1999) [TV] TMDB IMDb
O Auto da Compadecida
director: João Falcão / Guel Arraes … actor: Matheus Nachtergaele / Selton Mello …
The (mis)adventures of João Grilo and Chicó in Brazil's Northeastern region. The four-chapter miniseries original version of O Auto da Compadecida.
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Uma Escola Atrapalhada (1990) [Movie] TMDB
Uma Escola Atrapalhada
director: Del Rangel actor: Renato Aragão / Angélica …
A real state agency wants to buy and demolish the traditional school Matheus Rose, to use the lot to build a hotel. The proposition unleashes a feel of distrust among the school students and staff, especially with the arrival of new, mysterious students.
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Four Days in September (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
O Que é Isso, Companheiro?
director: Bruno Barreto actor: Alan Arkin / Pedro Cardoso …
other title: O Que é Isso, Companheiro? / 4 giorni a settembre …
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
brazil filmes tercinema
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A Dog's Will 2 (2024) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
O Auto da Compadecida 2
director: Flávia Lacerda / Guel Arraes actor: Matheus Nachtergaele / Selton Mello …
other title: O Auto da Compadecida 2
After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city.
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The Clown (2011) [Movie] TMDB
O Palhaço
director: Selton Mello actor: Selton Mello / Paulo José …
other title: O Palhaço / El payaso
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.
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The Movie of My Life (2017) [Movie] TMDB
O Filme da Minha Vida
director: Selton Mello actor: Johnny Massaro / Vincent Cassel …
other title: O Filme da Minha Vida / Le Film de ma Vie
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.
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Tarantino's Mind (2006) [Movie] TMDB
O Código Tarantino
director: Bernardo Dutra / Manitou Felipe actor: Seu Jorge / Selton Mello …
other title: O Código Tarantino
Two friends at a bar talking about theories involving Quentin Tarantino's movies.
metacinema
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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020) [Movie] TMDB
Babenco - Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer: Parou
director: Bárbara Paz actor: Héctor Babenco / Willem Dafoe …
other title: Babenco - Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer: Parou
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.
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Trash (2014) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Trash
director: Stephen Daldry actor: Rickson Tevez / Eduardo Luís …
other title: Lixo / Favelas …
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
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The Mechanism (2018) [TV] IMDb TMDB
O Mecanismo
director: José Padilha / Elena Soarez actor: Selton Mello / Caroline Abras …
other title: O Mecanismo / Der Mechanismus …
A scandal erupts in Brazil during an investigation of alleged government corruption via oil and construction companies. Loosely inspired by true events.