Rui Melo (Actor)

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Works

Portugueses

Release Date: 2025-06-05

Character: Vasconcelos

Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó

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.

Release Date: 2023-08-03

Department: Crew

Job: Creator

Character: Simão Bourbon de Linhaça

Vote Count: 4

Além do Sol Posto

Release Date: 2022-09-05

Da Mood

Release Date: 2022-06-04

Character: Mário

Episode Count: 9

Taskmaster Portugal

Five public figures are challenged by “Taskmaster” Vasco Palmeirim and his assistant Nuno Markl to overcome a series of fun tests with a small dose of madness.

Release Date: 2022-03-19

Character: Self - Guest

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

For You

In the parish of Rio Meandro, two villages are at war over the construction of a dam that will submerge one of them: either Aldeia Velha or Aldeia Nova.

Release Date: 2022-03-07

Character: Bernardo Melchior

Episode Count: 260

Vote Count: 15

Para Sempre

Pedro is an enigmatic man with only one goal: to get Clara back, his first and only love. However, this meeting is almost impossible. Above all, because she is engaged to his brother Lourenço, the man who Pedro will save. And what will Lourenço do when he realizes that his savior may, after all, steal everything from him?

Release Date: 2021-11-08

Character: Alcino Parracho

Episode Count: 146

Vote Count: 2

Chegar a Casa

Release Date: 2021-09-08

Character: Luís

Episode Count: 8

Pôr do Sol

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...

Release Date: 2021-08-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Simão Bourbon de Linhaça

Episode Count: 36

Vote Count: 11

Until Life Do Us Part

Three generations of a family living together in an idyllic villa juggle the demands of their wedding planning business and their own personal crises.

Release Date: 2021-02-03

Character: Fábio Neves

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 11

The Sound that Goes Down to Earth

Maria da Luz waits for her husband who got lost somewhere in Angola during the war. With no news, she finds herself surrounded by families that, like her, desperately long for some kind of hope regarding their loved ones fighting abroad. She takes the matter in her hands and starts tape recording loving messages from each mother, wife and other family members. Carrying the tapes, she travels to Angola and personally delivers these messages to each and every soldier in a personal quest right in the middle of a country in war.

Release Date: 2020-09-17

Character: Ministro Correia

Vote Count: 6

Desliga a Televisão

Release Date: 2019-09-08

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 1

Quero-te Tanto!

A romance comedy about a nonconformist couple of young parents who, looking for a solution to their fragile financial situation, is involved in an innocent and crazy scheme.

Release Date: 2019-04-18

Character: António

Vote Count: 2

Blood Lines

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.

Release Date: 2018-07-26

Character: José Cordeiro

Vote Count: 2

Ruth

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs, Sporting and Benfica, which ends up hiring him. Blackmail, kidnapping attempts, ministers involved, press hysteria and huge money offers make the story of this football transfer into a saga evolving between the two continents. It ends up when the legend begins: with Eusébio’s first match at the Benfica Stadium.

Release Date: 2018-05-03

Character: Elísio Pereira

Vote Count: 7

A Criação

A fable with people and furrys about the creative industry and the commercial arts.

Release Date: 2017-09-19

Character: Félix

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 1

The Wise Man

A love as large as the world itself... Pedro has just returned to the city where he was born and spent most of his life, but mysteriously disappeared without a trace for 20 years. The reasons for his disappearance have always been cause for speculation, as he was something of a celebrity in the city. Despite always denying any direct responsibility, he was known for performing miracles on people's lives by having them look at themselves from a different perspective. In fact, Pedro has the gift of being able to foresee the future. But his visions can be, at the same time, a blessing and a trap. When he was young, he saw his girlfriend Carmen dressed as a bride laying in a coffin and wearing an engagement ring that he assumed was his. It was as if fate was warning him... Pedro ends up getting involved with Manuela and have a daughter with her named Sofia. Still, he goes through a rough period and receives a serious death threat that makes him leave everything behind.

Release Date: 2017-01-02

Character: Telmo Soares

Episode Count: 1

Delírio em Las Vedras

New film directed by Edgar Pêra.

Release Date: 2016-12-18

Character: Artur Moraes - TV-Me

Vote Count: 1

Maluco Beleza

Release Date: 2015-08-14

Character: Himself

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Melhor Do Que Falecer

Comedy situations

Release Date: 2015-06-09

Character: Various Roles

Episode Count: 80

Will for Revenge

Release Date: 2015-05-18

Character: David Mamede

Episode Count: 296

Inside Out

João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay. So he decides to reject his partner of five years and he plunges into a new, unexpectedly hetero life. But, as the saying goes, it never rains but it pours: João also has a creative block, and is incapable of finishing his latest novel. Isabel, his rival in the literary world, is suffering from a similar case of writer's block. After a night spent together, Isabel steals João's novel and tries to publish it as her own.

Release Date: 2014-11-20

Character: Rui, João Salgado's publisher

Vote Count: 13

Nzinga, Queen of Angola

In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being humiliated by Portuguese colonizers, Njinga will become a Queen and struggle for their liberation embodying the motto: those who stay fight to win.

Release Date: 2013-11-08

Character: João Correia de Sousa

Vote Count: 7

Day By Day

Despite the hardship, there are those who fight and overcome... Marta is a single mother and a humble woman who’s doing her best to offer her two daughters, Susana e Beatriz, a good life. But when she finds out that her younger daughter has a rare and serious condition, everything changes in this family’s life. Susana decides to seek out Rodrigo, the child´s father and a wealthy man who can afford to pay the much needed surgery abroad. Even though he didn't even know he had a daughter, Rodrigo accepts to pay for the surgery on the condition that he’s granted custody. Marta is then faced with the greatest dilemma in her life: in order to save his daughter, she’ll have to give her up. Rodrigo will end up using Beatriz in an elaborate ploy to get closer to Marta. However, his cousin Gabriel’s return to Portugal will make things difficult for him, as Gabriel will fall in love with Marta, thus turning into Rodrigo's rival.

Release Date: 2013-09-16

Character: Paulo Santos

Episode Count: 2

Welcome to Beirais

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.

Release Date: 2013-05-13

Character: Roberto

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 1

New Beginning

Álvaro and Maria do Carmo lived happily in Angola. He was a successful businessman and she was a mild mannered housewife. They have two children together, Ana and João, who were studying and living their teenage years in Luanda... Until the day the civil war broke out and everything fell apart. Amidst declarations of independence, a wave of violence breaks out and the established peace and order fades away. In July, 1975, the Mendonça family, along with over five hundred thousand people, leave their belongings behind and embark on an air convoy that would become the biggest exodus in the history of the Portuguese people to a homeland that most only knew from photos and dubbed it Metropolis. In Lisbon, Joaquim and Natália, Álvaro’s brother-in-law and sister, take the Mendonça family in their small apartment, where they will try to get their lives back in order. However, over that hot summer of 1975, the integration seemed to be far from easy.

Release Date: 2013-01-19

Character: Amparo

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Hotel Cinco Estrelas

Release Date: 2013-01-19

Character: António Braga

Episode Count: 45

A Viagem do Senhor Ulisses

The story of an old man who does not settle for being abandoned by his own son in a hospital, venturing with the company of a rebellious teenager in a long and troubled way in search of the family, in which will also find a new life.

Release Date: 2012-06-24

Character: Dr. Jorge

Maternidade

Release Date: 2011-01-30

Character: Torres

Episode Count: 1

Alta Definição

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

Release Date: 2009-09-12

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Father by Chance

An unlikely love with a happy ending... At age 40, Miguel is at the top of his career as a plastic surgeon, having reached the fame and fortune he worked so hard for. He’s a hopeless bachelor, never committing to any real relationship. This is not just by choice, his situation is a result of never having met his parents and being raised in a children’s home. But, overnight, a simple phone call will change his life entirely, making him recall a point in his life that he’d rather forget. His best friend from the institution was just killed in a car crash along with his wife, but left written instructions behind stating that, if something should happen to him, Miguel should be given custody of his three children, 12-year-old Simão, 8-year-old Jaime and 6-year-old Beatriz. Initially, Miguel will try to dismiss himself from any responsibility but, after meeting the kids, he realizes that he has no choice but to bring them home.

Release Date: 2009-02-06

Character: Duarte

Episode Count: 52