About
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).
Filmography
A Fúria2026 · Director, Writer
In Pieces2025 · Director, Screenplay
Oblivious Memory2018 · Director
The Mirror2015 · Consulting Editor
In Evil Hour2006 · Director, Writer
Portugal S.A.2004 · Director
Turbulence2000 · Writer, Director
Monsanto2000 · Director
The Jew1996 · Editor
Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier1990 · Director, Writer
Kuarup1989 · Director, Writer, Producer
Malandro1986 · Producer, Director, Writer
Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização1984 · Director
Erendira1983 · Director
Mueda, Memory and Massacre1982 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor
La Lettre Volèe1981 · Director
Branded For Life1977 · Editor
The Fall1976 · Director, Writer, Editor, Music
Of Gods and the Undead1970 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
Sweet Hunters1970 · Director, Writer