Ruy Guerra

Birthday: 1931-08-22
Birthplace: Maputo, Moçambique
Gender: Male

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).

Credits

Year Title
2025-02-13 In Pieces
2024-12-06 A Fúria
2018-04-19 Oblivious Memory
2006-02-02 In Evil Hour
2004-01-16 Portugal S.A.
2000-05-13 Turbulence
2000-02-15 Monsanto
1992-03-19 Me alquilo para soñar
1990-05-30 Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
1989-06-02 Kuarup
1986-07-02 Malandro
1984-06-05 Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização
1983-06-01 Erendira
1982-05-05 Mueda, Memory and Massacre
1976-08-20 The Fall
1970-06-25 Of Gods and the Undead
1970-03-22 Sweet Hunters
1964-06-01 The Guns
1962-03-24 The Unscrupulous Ones
1954-07-08 Quand Le Soleil Dort