As Director, As Writer
In Pieces
2025
6.0
Ruy Guerra
Acting
Birth date
August 22, 1931
Birth place
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).
Featured in
As Director
Oblivious Memory
2018
7.6
As Actor
Blue Blood
2014
5.8
As Director, As Writer
In Evil Hour
2006
5.0
As Actor
The House of Sand
2005
6.7
As Director
Portugal S.A.
2004
5.0
As Actor
A Linguagem do Cinema
2001
6.0
As Director, As Writer
Turbulence
2000
5.5
As Director, As Writer
Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier
1990
4.0
As Director, As Writer
Malandro
1986
6.5
As Director
Erendira
1983
6.1
As Director
Mueda, Memory and Massacre
1982
5.0
As Director, As Writer
The Fall
1976
6.7
As Actor
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
7.5
As Actor
Le Maître du temps
1971
5.0
As Director, As Writer
The Guns
1964
7.5
As Director, As Writer
The Unscrupulous Ones
1962
6.3