- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- August 22, 1931
- Place of Birth
- Maputo, Moçambique
Ruy Guerra
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).
Filmography
movieA Fúria
2026 · Director, Writer
movieIn Pieces
2025 · Director, Screenplay
movieAsa Real
2024
moviePeréio, Eu Te Odeio!
2023
movieQuando a Coisa Vira Outra
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieJá que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021 · Self
movieTempo Ruy
2021 · Self
movieCandango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020 · Self
movieOblivious Memory
2018 · Voz do sapo, Director
movieSaudade
2017 · Self
movieThe Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017 · Self
movieCinema Novo
2016 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
movieGabo & Cinema
2016 · Self
movieChico: Brazilian Artist
2015 · Self
movieAbout Cinema
2015 · Self
movieThe Mirror
2015 · Consulting Editor
movieBlue Blood
2014 · Mumbebo
movie5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
2010
movieIn Evil Hour
2006 · Director, Writer
movieBreathless
2006
movieThe House of Sand
2005 · Vasco de Sá
moviePortugal S.A.
2004 · Director
movieA Linguagem do Cinema
2001
movieTurbulence
2000 · Writer, Director
movieMonsanto
2000 · Director
movieRetrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão
1999
movieDib
1997 · Self
movieThe Jew
1996 · Editor
tvI Sell My Dreams
1994 · Director, Writer
movieFable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
1990 · Director, Writer
movieKuarup
1989 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieMalandro
1986 · Producer, Director, Writer
Nifrapo
movieNifrapo
1985
movieOs Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização
1984 · Director
movieErendira
1983 · Director
movieMueda, Memory and Massacre
1982 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor
La Lettre Volèe
movieLa Lettre Volèe
1981 · Director
movieBranded For Life
1977 · , Editor
movieThe Fall
1976 · Director, Writer, Editor, Music
movieAguirre, the Wrath of God
1972 · Don Pedro de Ursúa
movieThe Suns of Easter Island
1972
movieBrazil in Cannes
1971
movieLe Maître du temps
1971
movieBenito Cereno
1971
movieOf Gods and the Undead
1970 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
movieSweet Hunters
1970 · Director, Writer
movieThe Guns
1964 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
movieEsse Mundo é Meu
1964 · Editor
movieO Santo Módico
1964 · Assistant Director
movieThe Beggars
1963 · , Editor
movieFive Times Favela
1962 · Editor
movieLe Tout pour le tout
1962 · Assistant Director
movieThe Unscrupulous Ones
1962 · Director, Writer
movieS.O.S. Noronha
1957 · Miguel
Quand Le Soleil Dort
movieQuand Le Soleil Dort
1954 · Director
movieTempo à Faca
— · Writer