Selton Mello
Biography: Selton Mello, one of Brazil’s most respected actors and directors, has built a remarkable career spanning four decades. From his beginnings as a child actor to his status as a celebrated artist, Mello has consistently demonstrated his passion for storytelling and connection with audiences. Born on December 30, 1972, in Passos, Minas Gerais, Mello began acting in Brazilian television soap operas during the 1980s. His talent quickly earned him recognition, leading to his transition to cinema. In the 1990s, he gained acclaim with films such as Lavoura Arcaica (To the Left of the Father) and O Auto da Compadecida (A Dog’s Will). The latter remains a cultural classic, with Mello’s role as Chicó highlighting his comedic timing and depth. Mello’s versatility as an actor is evident in his diverse filmography, including Meu Nome Não É Johnny (My Name Ain’t Johnny)* and Jean Charles, a poignant portrayal of a Brazilian immigrant’s tragic story. In Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here), directed by Walter Salles, Mello delivered a powerful performance as Rubens Paiva, a congressman disappeared during Brazil’s military dictatorship. Beyond acting, Mello has excelled as a director. His 2011 film O Palhaço (The Clown), which explores themes of identity and purpose, received widespread acclaim and numerous awards. His second directorial work, O Filme da Minha Vida (The Movie of My Life), further showcased his storytelling ability, earning accolades at the Rome Film Festival. In 2024, Mello continues to impact Brazilian cinema with anticipated projects like O Auto da Compadecida 2 and Bury Your Dead, reflecting his ability to adapt to diverse narratives. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Mello plays a key role in promoting Brazilian cinema internationally. With over 40 years in the industry, Selton Mello remains a significant figure, celebrated for his contributions as an actor, director, and cultural embassador.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 30, 1972
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
The Invisible Woman
2009-06-05
The Invisible Woman
Overview: 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!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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Four Days in September
1997-10-01
Four Days in September
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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A Dog's Will 2
2024-12-25
A Dog's Will 2
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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A Dog's Will
2000-09-15
A Dog's Will
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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Drained
2006-09-27
Drained
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-09-27
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Dry Movie
2005-04-14
Dry Movie
Overview: Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-14
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Jean Charles
2009-06-26
Jean Charles
Overview: The tragic true story of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead by British police in 2005 at the height of the London terrorist alerts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-26
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O Coronel e o Lobisomem
2005-10-01
O Coronel e o Lobisomem
Overview: Colonel Furtado struggles to keep his lands, the Sobradinho Farm, and win the heart of his cousin Esmeraldina. In the process, he fights big beasts, experiences the taste of a bohemian life in town, fends usurers and thieves off, and uses all his cunning to get rid of haunting entities. His rival is the man he was brought up with, Pernambuco Nogueira, a werewolf.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-10-01
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To the Left of the Father
2001-10-29
To the Left of the Father
Overview: The story of André, the rebel runaway son from a dominant Lebanese-Brazilian family who returns to the nest after a few years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-10-29
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Federal
2010-10-29
Federal
Overview: Brasília. Vital is a Brazilian federal police deputy who leads a special investigation group that aims to capture the international drug trafficker Beque Batista. Three other officers make up the group: Dani, Rock and Lua. In parallel, Vital need to take care of Leila, his pregnant wife, and does everything so she does not participate in the violent world in which he lives.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-29
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My Name Ain't Johnny
2008-01-04
My Name Ain't Johnny
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-04
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Lisbela and the Prisoner
2003-08-22
Lisbela and the Prisoner
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-08-22
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Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil
2001-11-09
Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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The Herb of the Rat
2008-06-26
The Herb of the Rat
Overview: The names of the characters are pronouns. She is a teacher, with his father dead just three days ago. Faced with this situation, He intends to take care of her while He is alive. This is the beginning of an odd relationship.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-06-26
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Slightly Out of Tune
2008-08-29
Slightly Out of Tune
Overview: A group of friends come of age during the political turmoil that plagued Brazil in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band called "Os Desafinados" and become a part of the groundbreaking Brazilian musical movement called Bossa Nova
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-29
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I'm Still Here
2024-09-19
I'm Still Here
Overview: In the early 1970s, the military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family - Rubens, Eunice, and their five children - live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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The Clown
2011-10-28
The Clown
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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Bury Your Dead
2024-10-04
Bury Your Dead
Overview: Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink of destruction, Edgar and his unlikely companion Tomás – a disgraced and excommunicated priest – embark on a dangerous road trip through a landscape plagued by chaos and despair.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-04
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Uma Escola Atrapalhada
1990-06-29
Uma Escola Atrapalhada
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-06-29
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Lope: The Outlaw
2010-09-03
Lope: The Outlaw
Overview: A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of Theater in the 16th century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theater world when a producer's beautiful daughter takes a shine to him. They embark on a passionate affair as his plays begin to win popular acclaim.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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Billi Pig
2012-03-02
Billi Pig
Overview: The aspiring actress Marivalda, her husband Wanderley, a bankrupt insurance broker and a false priest do their best to get along in life. But they end up in the hands of a drug boss, whose daughter they promised to save the life of, hit in a shooting at a party in São Cristóvão. A huge cash reward is at stake and now all three have to chase the promised miracle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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Kings & Rats
2012-02-17
Kings & Rats
Overview: In Rio de Janeiro in 1963, the story of several characters is intertwined in the midst of the political scenario of the time. One of them is Troy, a CIA agent residing in Brazil who plans a trap for the President.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-02-17
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Tarantino's Mind
2006-01-04
Tarantino's Mind
Overview: Two friends at a bar talking about theories involving Quentin Tarantino's movies.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-04
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Trash
2014-10-09
Trash
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
2013-03-07
Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
Overview: “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.
Genres: Animation Drama History Romance Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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The Movie of My Life
2017-08-03
The Movie of My Life
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-08-03
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My Hindu Friend
2016-03-03
My Hindu Friend
Overview: Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live with the pain and also conversing with death, he meets a Hindu boy who is a fellow patient and who becomes his friend. But one day the boy disappears. Diego is discharged, but his life has changed forever. His marriage fails and, living alone, he begins to wonder whether he may in fact be dying and no one has told him. He tries to find out what happened to his Hindu friend, and eventually meets another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-03
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Garotas do ABC
2003-12-18
Garotas do ABC
Overview: Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-12-18
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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
2023-01-30
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Overview: For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-01-30
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Soundtrack
2017-07-06
Soundtrack
Overview: The Soundtrack of a life. Cris ( Selton Mello) , a young artist still trying to find his place on the tough world of arts, gets from Brazilian Government special permit to stay a month in an isolated international research station surrounded by nothing but ice. His goal is to prepare an exhibition mixing music and photography. Cris will go against his own defined concepts and values, as he spends time with other researchers discovering PLANET EARTH on an never seen perspective. This shock will result on this young artist 's evolution changing his life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-06
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Lino
2017-09-07
Lino
Overview: Lino works as an entertainer at children's parties, but he can't stand the way children treat him, making fun of him because he works in a cat's costume. Determined to change his life, he visits a wizard, but the magic doesn't work in the right way, and he wakes up as a big cat.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
2017-10-14
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
Overview: "All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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Nina
2004-01-28
Nina
Overview: After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-28
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Reflections of a Blender
2010-08-19
Reflections of a Blender
Overview: After receiving a patch, a blender suddenly gains consciousness. As it grapples with existential questions, it becomes the sole companion to the grieving wife of a missing man.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-08-19
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Guerra de Canudos
1997-10-03
Guerra de Canudos
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, a poor family comes to the rural Canudos, a community led by Antônio Conselheiro, seen by many as a holy prophet. Their ways bother the powerful people of the region, and the newly founded Republic sends their army to destroy the settlement, which culminates in one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Brazil.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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Você Não Sabe Quem Eu Sou
2018-06-17
Você Não Sabe Quem Eu Sou
Overview: Nasi was always a controversial guy. Since his times with Ira! in the early 1980s, his name was among the most talented and also the most troublesome artists on the Brazilian scene.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-06-17
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Lamarca
1994-05-01
Lamarca
Overview: The real story of Carlos Lamarca, a captain who, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, deserted Brazilian Army and got involved in left-wing guerilla groups, becoming one of their most prominent leaders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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Aperana Street 52
2012-01-20
Aperana Street 52
Overview: In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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Making of O Auto da Compadecida
2000-01-01
Making of O Auto da Compadecida
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Câmera, Close!
2005-08-05
Câmera, Close!
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
2017-03-31
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Overview: Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020-11-26
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-11-26
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Olhos Livres
2021-08-22
Olhos Livres
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-08-22
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Anaconda
2025-12-25
Anaconda
Overview: Planned reboot.
Genres: Horror Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-12-25
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