Ruy Guerra
Biography
Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira (born August 22, 1931) is a Portuguese-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor. Guerra was born a Portuguese citizen in Lourenço Marques (today Maputo) in Mozambique, when it was still Portuguese colony. Guerra studied at IDHEC film school in Paris from 1952. In 1958 he started his career as an assistant director in several French films. Later on he immigrated to Brazil, where he directed his first feature film, Os Cafajestes (1962).
Personal Details
Movies (49)
In Pieces
Director (Directing)
2025
A Fúria
Director (Directing)
2024
Asa Real
2024
Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
2023
Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
as Self
2021
Tempo Ruy
as Self
2021
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
as Self
2020
Oblivious Memory
Director (Directing)
2018
Saudade
as Self
2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self
2017
Cinema Novo
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2016
Gabo & Cinema
as Self
2016
Chico: Brazilian Artist
as Self
2015
About Cinema
as Self
2015
The Mirror
Consulting Editor (Editing)
2015
Blue Blood
2014
5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
2010
In Evil Hour
Director (Directing)
2006
Breathless
2006
The House of Sand
as Vasco de Sá
2005
Portugal S.A.
Director (Directing)
2004
A Linguagem do Cinema
2001
Turbulence
Writer (Writing)
2000
Monsanto
Director (Directing)
2000
Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão
1999
Dib
as Self
1997
The Jew
Editor (Editing)
1996
Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
Director (Directing)
1990
Kuarup
Director (Directing)
1989
Malandro
Producer (Production)
1986
Nifrapo
1985
Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização
Director (Directing)
1984
Erendira
Director (Directing)
1983
Mueda, Memory and Massacre
Director (Directing)
1982
La Lettre Volèe
Director (Directing)
1981
Branded For Life
1977
The Fall
Director (Directing)
1976
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
as Don Pedro de Ursúa
1972
The Suns of Easter Island
1972
Brazil in Cannes
1971
Le Maître du temps
1971
Benito Cereno
1971
Of Gods and the Undead
Director (Directing)
1970
Sweet Hunters
Director (Directing)
1970
The Guns
Director (Directing)
1964
Esse Mundo é Meu
Editor (Editing)
1964
O Santo Módico
Assistant Director (Directing)
1964
The Beggars
1963
