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Born August 22, 1931 · 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).

A Fúria
2026

In Pieces
2025

Oblivious Memory
2018

In Evil Hour
2006

Portugal S.A.
2004

Turbulence
2000

Monsanto
2000

Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
1990

Kuarup
1989

Malandro
1986

Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização
1984

Erendira
1983

Mueda, Memory and Massacre
1982
La Lettre Volèe
1981

The Fall
1976

Of Gods and the Undead
1970

Sweet Hunters
1970

The Guns
1964

The Unscrupulous Ones
1962
Quand Le Soleil Dort
1954

Asa Real
2024

Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
2023

Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
2022

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021

Tempo Ruy
2021

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020

Oblivious Memory
2018

Saudade
2017

The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017

Cinema Novo
2016

Gabo & Cinema
2016

Chico: Brazilian Artist
2015

About Cinema
2015

Blue Blood
2014

5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
2010

Breathless
2006

The House of Sand
2005

A Linguagem do Cinema
2001

Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão
1999

Dib
1997
Nifrapo
1985

Branded For Life
1977

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972

The Suns of Easter Island
1972

Brazil in Cannes
1971

Le Maître du temps
1971

Benito Cereno
1971

The Beggars
1963

S.O.S. Noronha
1957