Ruy Guerra
Known for: Directing
Born: August 22, 1931
Place of birth: Maputo, Moçambique
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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Filmography
55 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
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A Fúria
2026
5.5
In Pieces
2025
10.0
Asa Real
2024
8.0
Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
2023
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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
2022
8.0
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021
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Tempo Ruy
2021
5.0
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020
7.6
Oblivious Memory
2018
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Saudade
2017
7.5
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
6.7
Cinema Novo
2016
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Gabo & Cinema
2016
7.8
Chico: Brazilian Artist
2015
8.2
About Cinema
2015
3.9
The Mirror
2015
5.6
Blue Blood
2014
5.2
5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
2010
5.7
In Evil Hour
2006
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Breathless
2006
6.7
The House of Sand
2005
6.0
Portugal S.A.
2004
6.0
A Linguagem do Cinema
2001
6.4
Turbulence
2000
6.5
Monsanto
2000
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Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão
1999
8.0
Dib
1997
5.7
The Jew
1996
7.0
I Sell My Dreams
1994
4.8
Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
1990
4.6
Kuarup
1989
7.0
Malandro
198610.0
Nifrapo
1985
NR
Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização
1984
6.1
Erendira
1983
7.0
Mueda, Memory and Massacre
1982NR
La Lettre Volèe
1981
7.0
Branded For Life
1977
6.8
The Fall
1976
7.4
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
6.4
The Suns of Easter Island
1972
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Brazil in Cannes
1971
6.3
Le Maître du temps
1971
7.0
Benito Cereno
1971
6.0
Of Gods and the Undead
1970
6.3
Sweet Hunters
1970
7.5
The Guns
1964
7.6
Esse Mundo é Meu
1964
7.0
O Santo Módico
1964
9.0
The Beggars
1963
7.9
Five Times Favela
1962
9.0
Le Tout pour le tout
1962
6.3
The Unscrupulous Ones
1962
9.0
S.O.S. Noronha
19579.0
Quand Le Soleil Dort
1954
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Time, Knifed
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