Ruy Guerra

Ruy Guerra

Born: August 22, 1931
in 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).

Movies for Ruy Guerra...

Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Title: Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Released: September 29, 2023
Type: Movie
23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on Brazilian living legend Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial actor and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family and society members who hate him.
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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Title: Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 6, 2022
Type: Movie
Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important Brazilian documentary filmmakers in activity, his images influenced the emergence of Cinema Novo and the new Brazilian documentary years later. Quando a Coisa Vira Outra covers the most important films made by Vladimir, revealing where ideas come from to show the true reality of a country.
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Title: Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Character: Self
Released: October 28, 2021
Type: Movie
Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.
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Tempo Ruy
Title: Tempo Ruy
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2021
Type: Movie
A documentary about the work of filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and film director Ruy Guerra. The audiovisual collage presents the director's trajectory, from his first experience with cinema up to his most recent thoughts on his work.
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Title: Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
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Saudade
Title: Saudade
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Title: The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Character: Self
Released: January 20, 2017
Type: Movie
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Cinema Novo
Title: Cinema Novo
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 2016
Type: Movie
A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.
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Gabo & Cinema
Title: Gabo & Cinema
Character: Self
Released: April 17, 2016
Type: Movie
It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', arguably the most influential novel in any language of the second half of the twentieth century, to be produced. However, the prolific Colombian writer had strong ties to the movies.
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
Title: Chico: Brazilian Artist
Character: Self
Released: November 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.
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About Cinema
Title: About Cinema
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.
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Blue Blood
Title: Blue Blood
Released: September 29, 2014
Type: Movie
When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.
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5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
Title: 5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
Released: August 25, 2010
Type: Movie
The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities - with the promise of escape stereotypical representations.
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Breathless
Title: Breathless
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?
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The House of Sand
Title: The House of Sand
Character: Vasco de Sá
Released: May 13, 2005
Type: Movie
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
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A Linguagem do Cinema
Title: A Linguagem do Cinema
Released: March 15, 2001
Type: Movie
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Dib
Title: Dib
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.
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Branded For Life
Title: Branded For Life
Released: November 24, 1977
Type: Movie
A true friendship develops between Jojô, a prostitute Rosa, and the young Eduardo, who survive on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Everything goes well until ambition takes over the trio, causing friends to aim for bigger goals, planning a big assault that could cost them their lives.
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Title: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Character: Don Pedro de Ursúa
Released: December 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
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The Suns of Easter Island
Title: The Suns of Easter Island
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
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Brazil in Cannes
Title: Brazil in Cannes
Released: December 24, 1971
Type: Movie
The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the transition from film to industrialized production. It is the meeting of producers, technicians, critics , celebrities in general, offering opportunities for greater knowledge and renewal of values
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Le Maître du temps
Title: Le Maître du temps
Released: October 24, 1971
Type: Movie
An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.
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Benito Cereno
Title: Benito Cereno
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
When Captain Amaso Delano approaches a three-masted ship in distress to offer his assistance, he discovers a most unusual situation: its captain, Don Benito Cereno, seems to command a very scant crew, moreover composed only of Africans. Cereno is in very bad condition and apparently survives only thanks to the affectionate care of his faithful body-servant slave Atimbo. When Delano leaves the dilapidated ship to seek relief, Cereno jumps in the boat and explains to the Americans that he has been the victim of a revolt of the slaves. The ship is now in their hands.
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Os Mendigos
Title: Os Mendigos
Released: December 21, 1963
Type: Movie
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S.O.S. Noronha
Title: S.O.S. Noronha
Character: Miguel
Released: June 21, 1957
Type: Movie
In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulibaud, head of the aeropostale radio station, and his team-mates Mastic and Froment, try to prevent them from entering the concession where the island's governor and his daughter have taken refuge. They manage to repair the radio so as to follow and guide Mermoz as he attempts to cross the South Atlantic for the 53rd time. The aviator is forced to ditch and is picked up by a boat. Their mission accomplished, Coulibaud and his team boarded a British ship that had come to their rescue.