Ruy Guerra
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).
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
as Don Pedro de UrsúaA few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous...
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Blue Blood
as uncreditedWhen the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a...
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The House of Sand
as Vasco de SáA woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after...
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About Cinema
as SelfAn abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film...
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Cinema Novo
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements...
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Gabo & Cinema
as SelfIt is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of...
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Chico: Brazilian Artist
as SelfChico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular...
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The Suns of Easter Island
as uncreditedSix people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to...
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5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
as uncreditedThe project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas...
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Benito Cereno
as uncreditedWhen Captain Amaso Delano approaches a three-masted ship in distress to offer his assistance, he...
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Asa Real
as uncreditedA woman with a dream: to fly. During a frenetic search for the final widget for her gadget,...
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Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
as uncredited23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor...
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S.O.S. Noronha
as MiguelIn 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric...
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Breathless
as uncreditedFrench girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who...
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Dib
as SelfDocumentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib...
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
as SelfIn 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's...
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Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
as SelfConducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the...
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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
as Self (archive footage)Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over...
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Tempo Ruy
as SelfA documentary about the work of filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and film director Ruy Guerra. The...
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Le Maître du temps
as uncreditedAn alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.
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Branded For Life
as uncreditedA true friendship develops between Jojô, a prostitute Rosa, and the young Eduardo, who survive...
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Brazil in Cannes
as uncreditedThe importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in...
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