Ruy Guerra
45 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Aug 22, 1931 (age 95)
- Place of birth
- Maputo, Moçambique
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).
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Ruy Guerra: movies and TV shows
Acting (18)
- 2024
- 2023
- 2018 Oblivious Memory
as Voz do sapo
- 2014 Blue Blood
as Mumbebo
- 2010
- 2006
- 2005 The House of Sand
as Vasco de Sá
- 2001
- 1999 Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão
as Álvaro
- 1985
- 1977
- 1972 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
as Don Pedro de Ursúa
- 1972
- 1971
- 1971
- 1971
- 1963
- 1957 S.O.S. Noronha
as Miguel
Behind the camera (31)
- Upcoming Mueda
Director
- 2026 Time, Knifed
Writer, Original Story
- 2026 A Fúria
Director, Writer
- 2025 In Pieces
Director, Screenplay
- 2018 Oblivious Memory
Director
- 2015 The Mirror
Consulting Editor
- 2006 In Evil Hour
Director, Writer
- 2004 Portugal S.A.
Director
- 2000 Turbulence
Writer, Director
- 2000 Monsanto
Director
- 1996 The Jew
Editor
- 1994
- 1990 Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
Writer, Director
- 1989 Kuarup
Director, Writer, Producer
- 1986 Malandro
Producer, Writer, Director
- 1984
- 1983 Erendira
Director
- 1982 Mueda, Memory and Massacre
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
- 1981 La Lettre Volèe
Director
- 1977 Branded For Life
Editor
- 1976 The Fall
Writer, Director, Music, Editor
- 1970 Of Gods and the Undead
Screenplay, Editor, Director
- 1970 Sweet Hunters
Director, Writer
- 1964 The Guns
Director, Screenplay, Editor
- 1964 Esse Mundo é Meu
Editor
- 1964 O Santo Módico
Assistant Director
- 1963 The Beggars
Editor
- 1962 Five Times Favela
Editor
- 1962 Le Tout pour le tout
Assistant Director
- 1962 The Unscrupulous Ones
Director, Writer
- 1954 Quand Le Soleil Dort
Director
Talk shows and appearances (12)
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020
- 2017
- 2017
- 2016 O País do Cinema
1 episode
- 2016
- 2016
- 2015
- 2015
- 1997