Ruy Guerra Filmography

Born:: August 23, 1931 in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique
Occupation:: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: International filmmaker Ruy Guerra is primarily known for his innovative work in Brazil's Cinema Novo movement during the '60s and early '70s. Born in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, a Portuguese colony at the time, Guerra's love of cinema began in his youth where as an adolescent he published...Read More

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The House of Sand

Synopsis: Three generations of women struggle to make lives for themselves and their families in the desert wastes of Northern Brazil in a drama from filmmaker Andrucha Waddington. In 1910, Vasco de Sá (Ruy Guerra) leads his wife, Áurea (Fernanda Torres), and her mother, Dona Maria (Fernanda Montenegro), to Read More

7/28/06
In Evil Hour

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Leonardo Medeiros, Fabio Sabag, Amir Haddad, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Fernando Alves Pinto

2005
Portugal S.A.

Crew: Director

2004
Estorvo

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jorge Perugorría

Synopsis: In this existential drama from Brazil, a nameless man from a wealthy family (Jorge Perugorria) drifts through life without a job or a clear idea of what to do with his life. His sister (Bianca Byington) feels that he's turned his back on everything his family stands for, but at the same time his Read More

2000
Kuarup

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Taumaturgo Ferreira, Claudio Mamberti, Umberto Magnani

Synopsis: This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Taumaturgo Ferreira. Fed up with civilization, Ferreira ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians. The Read More

1989
Pigeon-Fancier

Crew: Director

1988
Fabula de la Bella Palomera

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ney Latorraca, Claudia Ohana, Tonia Carrero, Dina Sfat, Chico Diaz

Synopsis: Made for Spanish television, Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier (Fabula de la Bella Palomera) stars Claudia Ohana in the title role. Though she is a wife and mother, she is ardently pursued by powerful businessman Ney Latorraca, who uses Ohana's beloved pigeons to transmit messages of love to Read More

1988
Opera do Malandro

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Edson Celulari, Claudia Ohana, Elba Ramalho, Ney Latorraca, Fabio Sabag

Synopsis: Malandro is a Brazilian musical set in the Rio of the 1940s. Likeable prostitute Fabio Sabag is fired from her nightclub job. Fabio's pimp Edson Celulari vows vengeance upon the girl's odious ex-boss. Celulari sets about to seduce the club owner's daughter Claudia Ohana, but she proves to be no Read More

1/30/87
Erendira

Crew: Director

Actors: Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michel Lonsdale, Rufus

Synopsis: This tantalizing blend of eroticism and mysticism was adapted from a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Erendira (Claudia Ohana) has a strange and wondrous vision; shortly afterward, her grandmother's house burns down. The grandmother (Irene Papas) gets her revenge by forcing Erendira to become a Read More

1983
Mueda, Memoria E Massacre

Crew: Director

1980
Mueda

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Although the technique and execution of this docudrama is choppy, director Ruy Guerra has still achieved an effective statement. In the early 1960s people in the town of Mueda along the Mozambique-Tanzania border rebelled against the colonial Portuguese magistrate and as a result, six-hundred Read More

1980
Marcados Para Viver

Crew: Editor

1976
A Queda

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor

Actors: Nelson Xavier, Lima Duarte, Isabel Ribeiro, Maria Silvia, Hugo Carvana

Synopsis: When a construction worker falls to his death due to a deliberate laxness in safety regulations, the construction foreman's son-in-law attempts to get some compensation from the construction company for the man's widow. Instead, he runs into obstruction after obstruction. This impassioned Read More

1976
Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Cecilia Rivera, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Daniel Zacapa

Synopsis: The most famed and well-regarded collaboration between New German Cinema director Werner Herzog and his frequent leading man, Klaus Kinski, this epic historical drama was legendary for the arduousness of its on-location filming and the convincing zealous obsession employed by Kinski in playing the Read More

1972
Os Deuses E Os Mortos

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Norma Bengell, Othon Bastos, Itala Nandi, Nelson Xavier, Rui Polanah

Synopsis: This violent feature concerns the cacao wars of Brazil in the 1920s. Gods symbolically come to life and interact with the humans who perpetuate the murderous bloodbaths. This film was one of two official entries for Brazil at the 1970 Berlin Film Festival and it illustrates the troubles of both Read More

1970
Ternos Cacadores

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Maureen McNally, Susan Strasberg, Stuart Whitman, Andrew Hayden

Synopsis: A family living on a remote island learns an escaped prisoner may be in the area. Allan (Sterling Hayden) is the professor who studies the migratory habits of birds. His wife Clea (Maureen McNalley) has a fascination for all things dead. Her sister Lis (Susan Strasberg) is visiting to break the Read More

1969
Os Fuzis

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nelson Xavier, Maria Gladys

Synopsis: In the northeastern region of Brazil, local farmers are unable to grow sufficient crops on their arid land. When a holy man arrives and claims that his "sacred" ox will bring them rain if they follow where it leads, the naive peasants believe him. They follow the mystical creature to a nearby Read More

1964
Os Cafajestes

Crew: Director

Actors: Jose Valadao, Daniel Filho, Norma Benguell

Synopsis: An adult tale that has ample nudity and a few sexual encounters, this drama by director Ruy Guerra centers around a wealthy lothario who has never done a moment's work in his life -- and is suddenly faced with poverty. Or to be more precise, the rich father who supports him may lose all his Read More

1962