Ruy Guerra
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 22, 1931, Maputo, Moçambique
- Movies
- 50
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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2024 | Asa Real | |
| 2023 | Peréio, Eu Te Odeio! | |
| 2022 | Quando a Coisa Vira Outra | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar | Self |
| 2021 | Tempo Ruy | Self |
| 2020 | Candango: Memoirs from a Festival | Self |
| 2018 | Oblivious Memory | Voz do sapo |
| 2017 | Saudade | Self |
| 2017 | The Man Who Killed John Wayne | Self |
| 2016 | Cinema Novo | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Gabo & Cinema | Self |
| 2015 | Chico: Brazilian Artist | Self |
| 2015 | About Cinema | Self |
| 2014 | Blue Blood | Mumbebo |
| 2010 | 5x Favela, Now by Ourselves | |
| 2006 | Breathless | |
| 2005 | The House of Sand | Vasco de Sá |
| 2001 | A Linguagem do Cinema | |
| 1999 | Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão | Álvaro |
| 1997 | Dib | Self |
| 1985 | Nifrapo | |
| 1977 | Branded For Life | |
| 1972 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Don Pedro de Ursúa |
| 1972 | The Suns of Easter Island | |
| 1971 | Brazil in Cannes | |
| 1971 | Le Maître du temps | |
| 1971 | Benito Cereno | |
| 1963 | The Beggars | |
| 1957 | S.O.S. Noronha | Miguel |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | Time, Knifed | Writer |
| 2026 | A Fúria | Director, Writer |
| 2025 | In Pieces | Director, Screenplay |
| 2018 | Oblivious Memory | Director |
| 2006 | In Evil Hour | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | Portugal S.A. | Director |
| 2000 | Turbulence | Writer, Director |
| 2000 | Monsanto | Director |
| 1990 | Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier | Director, Writer |
| 1989 | Kuarup | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1986 | Malandro | Producer, Director, Writer |
| 1984 | Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização | Director |
| 1983 | Erendira | Director |
| 1981 | La Lettre Volèe | Director |
| 1980 | Mueda, Memory and Massacre | Director |
| 1976 | The Fall | Writer, Director |
| 1970 | Of Gods and the Undead | Director, Screenplay |
| 1970 | Sweet Hunters | Director, Writer |
| 1964 | The Guns | Screenplay, Director |
| 1962 | The Unscrupulous Ones | Director, Writer |
| 1954 | Quand Le Soleil Dort | Director |
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