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).
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Films
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TV Shows
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Crew Credits
Known For
28 Credits
Breathless
2006
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
as Don Pedro de Ursúa
1972
Saudade
as Self
2017
Oblivious Memory
as Voz do sapo
2018
The Suns of Easter Island
1972
Blue Blood
2014
The House of Sand
as Vasco de Sá
2005
Cinema Novo
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2016
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self
2017
Gabo & Cinema
as Self
2016
Chico: Brazilian Artist
as Self
2015
5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
2010
Behind the Camera
19 Credits
Erendira
Director
1983
Kuarup
Director, Writer, Producer
1989
Sweet Hunters
Director, Writer
1970
Oblivious Memory
Director
2018
Of Gods and the Undead
Director
1970
I Sell My Dreams
Director, Writer
1994
A Fúria
Director
2026
Malandro
Producer, Director, Writer
1986
The Guns
Director
1964
In Pieces
Director
2025
The Unscrupulous Ones
Director, Writer
1962
In Evil Hour
Director, Writer
2006