Ruy Guerra
Born: 1931-08-22 in Maputo, Moçambique
Known For: Directing
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).
Filmography
2025
- In Pieces ... (Director)
2023
2022
- Quando a Coisa Vira Outra as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar as Self
- Tempo Ruy as Self
2020
2018
- Oblivious Memory ... (Director)
2017
- Saudade as Self
- The Man Who Killed John Wayne as Self
2016
- Gabo & Cinema as Self
- Cinema Novo as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2015
- Chico: Brazilian Artist as Self
- About Cinema as Self
- The Mirror ... (Consulting Editor)
2014
2006
- In Evil Hour ... (Director)
- Breathless
2005
- The House of Sand as Vasco de Sá
2004
- Portugal S.A. ... (Director)
2000
- Turbulence ... (Writer)
- Monsanto ... (Director)
1997
- Dib as Self
1996
- The Jew ... (Editor)
1994
- I Sell My Dreams ... (Director)
1990
- Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier ... (Writer)
1989
- Kuarup ... (Director)
1986
- Malandro ... (Producer)
1985
1984
- Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização ... (Director)
1983
- Erendira ... (Director)
1982
- Mueda, Memory and Massacre ... (Director)
1981
- La Lettre Volèe ... (Director)
1977
1976
- The Fall ... (Writer)
1972
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God as Don Pedro de Ursúa
- The Suns of Easter Island
1970
- Sweet Hunters ... (Director)
- Of Gods and the Undead ... (Screenplay)
1964
- The Guns ... (Director)
- Esse Mundo é Meu ... (Editor)
- O Santo Módico ... (Assistant Director)
1963
1962
- The Unscrupulous Ones ... (Director)
- Five Times Favela ... (Editor)
- Le tout pour le tout ... (Assistant Director)
1957
- S.O.S. Noronha as Miguel
1954
- Quand Le Soleil Dort ... (Director)