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).
Fotos
Filme (56)

Time, Knifed
2026 · Writer, Original Story

A Fúria
2026 · Director, Writer

In Pieces
2025 · Director, Screenplay

Asa Real
2024

Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
2023

Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
2022 · Self (archive footage)

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021 · Self

Tempo Ruy
2021 · Self

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020 · Self

Oblivious Memory
2018 · Voz do sapo, Director

Saudade
2017 · Self

The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017 · Self

Cinema Novo
2016 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Gabo & Cinema
2016 · Self

Chico: Brazilian Artist
2015 · Self

About Cinema
2015 · Self

The Mirror
2015 · Consulting Editor

Blue Blood
2014 · Mumbebo

5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
2010

In Evil Hour
2006 · Director, Writer

Breathless
2006

The House of Sand
2005 · Vasco de Sá

Portugal S.A.
2004 · Director

A Linguagem do Cinema
2001

Turbulence
2000 · Writer, Director

Monsanto
2000 · Director

Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão
1999 · Álvaro

Dib
1997 · Self

The Jew
1996 · Editor

Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
1990 · Writer, Director

Kuarup
1989 · Director, Writer, Producer

Malandro
1986 · Producer, Writer, Director
Nifrapo
1985

Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização
1984 · Director

Erendira
1983 · Director
La Lettre Volèe
1981 · Director

Mueda, Memory and Massacre
1980 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography

Branded For Life
1977 · Editor

The Fall
1976 · Writer, Director, Music, Editor

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972 · Don Pedro de Ursúa

The Suns of Easter Island
1972

Brazil in Cannes
1971

Le Maître du temps
1971

Benito Cereno
1971

Of Gods and the Undead
1970 · Screenplay, Editor, Director

Sweet Hunters
1970 · Director, Writer

The Guns
1964 · Director, Screenplay, Editor

Esse Mundo é Meu
1964 · Editor

O Santo Módico
1964 · Assistant Director

The Beggars
1963 · Editor

Five Times Favela
1962 · Editor

Le Tout pour le tout
1962 · Assistant Director

The Unscrupulous Ones
1962 · Director, Writer

S.O.S. Noronha
1957 · Miguel
Quand Le Soleil Dort
1954 · Director
Mueda
· Director



