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

• 2026A Fúria — Director, Writer
• 2026Time, Knifed — Writer, Original Story
• 2025In Pieces — Director, Screenplay
• 2024Asa Real
• 2023Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
• 2018Oblivious Memory — Voz do sapo, Director
• 2015The Mirror — Consulting Editor
• 2014Blue Blood — Mumbebo
• 20105x Favela, Now by Ourselves
• 2006Breathless
• 2006In Evil Hour — Director, Writer
• 2005The House of Sand — Vasco de Sá
• 2004Portugal S.A. — Director
• 2001A Linguagem do Cinema
• 2000Monsanto — Director
• 2000Turbulence — Writer, Director
• 1999Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão — Álvaro
• 1996The Jew — Editor
• I Sell My Dreams — Director, Writer
• 1990Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier — Director, Writer
• 1989Kuarup — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1986Malandro — Producer, Director, Writer
• 1985Nifrapo
• 1984Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização — Director
• 1983Erendira — Director
• 1982Mueda, Memory and Massacre — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1981La Lettre Volèe — Director
• 1977Branded For Life — Editor
• 1976The Fall — Writer, Director, Editor, Music
• 1972Aguirre, the Wrath of God — Don Pedro de Ursúa
• 1972The Suns of Easter Island
• 1971Benito Cereno
• 1971Brazil in Cannes
• 1971Le Maître du temps
• 1970Of Gods and the Undead — Editor, Director, Screenplay
• 1970Sweet Hunters — Director, Writer
• 1964Esse Mundo é Meu — Editor
• 1964O Santo Módico — Assistant Director
• 1964The Guns — Screenplay, Director, Editor
• 1963The Beggars — Editor
• 1962Five Times Favela — Editor
• 1962Le Tout pour le tout — Assistant Director
• 1962The Unscrupulous Ones — Director, Writer
• 1957S.O.S. Noronha — Miguel
• 1954Quand Le Soleil Dort — Director
• Mueda — Director

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2022Quando a Coisa Vira Outra — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar — Self
• 2021Tempo Ruy — Self
• 2020Candango: Memoirs from a Festival — Self
• 2017Saudade — Self
• 2017The Man Who Killed John Wayne — Self
• 2016Cinema Novo — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2016Gabo & Cinema — Self
• O País do Cinema — Self
• 2015About Cinema — Self
• 2015Chico: Brazilian Artist — Self
• 1997Dib — Self