Carlos Reichenbach

Directing

Carlos Reichenbach

Born — Died

1945-06-14 — 2012-06-14

Place of birth

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Known for

Directing

Credits

83 titles

Carlos Oscar Reichenbach Filho (14 June 1945 – 14 June 2012) was a Brazilian filmmaker. Born in Porto Alegre, Reichenbach was one year of age when he went to live in São Paulo. He studied in the School of Cinema São Luiz under Luis Sérgio Person. With João Callegaro and Antonio Lima he made his first feature-length films, the anthologies "As Libertinas" (1968) and "Audácia, a fúria dos desejos" (1969). His final film was "Start a History" in 2011.

Known for

Movie Dementia poster
6.3

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.

Movie Dementia

1986

The Island of Prohibited Pleasures poster
4.1

There's the continent ruled by a repressive government and there's an island where political activists of the continent take refuge on running away from the continent's police. This island is their last stand – there they live in a way not possible in the continent – free love, no possessions, brotherhood… In the continent, a killer is sent to the island to kill the revolutionary leaders. The killer is a woman , Ana (Neide Ribeiro). She will go there as a journalist sent there to interview the leaders of the movement. On arriving to the island, she will find out that things were much different from what she expected. Will Ana be involved by the "island of forbidden pleasures." Will she fulfill her mission?

The Island of Prohibited Pleasures

1979

As Safadas poster
6.1

Three stories. 'Rainha do Fliper' (Pinball's Queen) Reginéia is the pinball's queen, exploited by her pimp Giba. Out of the blue, her former boyfriend Tenório comes to the arcade place seeking out Reginéia. 'Uma Aula de Sanfona' (One Class of Accordion) Bank clerk Nanci and her friend Cristina have come from Ribeirão Preto and share an apartment in São Paulo. Nanci has an argument with her lover Valdemar, and goes to her room blaming her upset on the accordian lessons that her neighbor, Durval Pereira, is giving on the floor above, but what is his secret? 'Belinha, a Virgem' (Belinha, the Virgin) The wedding day of the virgin, Belinha is rapidly approaching,. But the wedding is against the will of her fiancé's mother. When her future mother-in-law asks the parochial priest to check whether Belinha is virgin or not, the girl uses her sculptural body to resolve the situation.

As Safadas

1982

The Empire of Desire poster
5.5

A widow named Sandra is on a trip from the city to reclaim her remote beach house from squatters. She picks up a hippie couple along the way, eventually inviting them to become housesitters at her coastal getaway.

The Empire of Desire

1981

Person poster
8.2

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.

Person

2007

The Red Light Bandit poster
7.6

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.

The Red Light Bandit

1968

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 6 titles

Carlos Reichenbach: Relatório Confidencial poster
NR

Carlos Reichenbach talks to Eugenio Puppo about some of his shorts films "Esta Rua Tão Augusta", "Sangue Corsário" e "M da Minha Mão" and specially the film "Lilian M: Relatório Confidencial". Explaining production details and revealing internal informations the film is a reconstitution about Reichenbach's works whitin turmoil moments of the country and his own career.

Carlos Reichenbach: Relatório Confidencial

2015

No artwork available
6.0

Through the recovery of found Super-8mm footage captured by his brother during the 70´s dictatorship, André tries to revive the memories of his father, who’s been waiting for his missing son for over 30 years.

People Forward

2014

Do Triunfo à queda do Império Vitoriano poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Do Triunfo à queda do Império Vitoriano

2014

Boca do Lixo: A Bollywood Brasileira poster
10.0

A documentary on Boca do Lixo, a dowtown São Paulo square that became a tentpole for film distribution on the early 20th century, becoming, from the 1960s on, a production district for popular eroctic films and for avant-garde directors.

Boca do Lixo: A Bollywood Brasileira

2011

The First Time of Brazilian Cinema poster
1.0

In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. Thirty years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.

The First Time of Brazilian Cinema

2013

Carlão: Erudito e Popular poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Carlão: Erudito e Popular

2012

2000s · 12 titles

Person poster
8.2

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.

Person

2007

Critic poster
7.9

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Critic

2008

Girls from ABC poster
6.1

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.

Girls from ABC

2003

Fake Blonde poster
6.0

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.

Fake Blonde

2007

A Linguagem do Cinema poster
6.0

A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Paulo Caldas, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, David Neves, Julio Bressane, Ana Carolina and Carlos Reichenbach.

A Linguagem do Cinema

2001

Candeias: Da Boca pra Fora poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Candeias: Da Boca pra Fora

2003

O Fim da Picada poster
NR

After taking part in a satanic orgy at a beach in 1850, Macário meets Exú-Lebara, a female pagan entity. She decides to go along in his trip but tricks him into going to 2008 São Paulo.

O Fim da Picada

2009

A Vermelha Luz do Bandido poster
NR

Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit".

A Vermelha Luz do Bandido

2009

Borboletas e Devassas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Borboletas e Devassas

2009

Soberano poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Soberano

2005

Carlão - Um Autor de Cinema poster
NR

A short film on Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Reichenbach and his works, including interviews with those who worked with him and with the man himself.

Carlão - Um Autor de Cinema

2008

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about the trajectory of Antônio Polo Galante, known as "The King of Boca". The film maps work and forms of production in Boca do Lixo, popular area in Luz neighborhood located downtown São Paulo, where usually night clubs and sexual services establishments were located.

O Galante Rei da Boca

2003

1980s · 4 titles

1970s · 12 titles

O Pornógrafo poster
5.7

Wannabe gangster Miguel Metralha becomes editor of a fading pornographic magazine that faces difficulties with the savage competition of similar imported magazines. His fresh ideas reshape the magazine as a whole, which is good for business, but upset the magazine's owner, a rich and powerful woman.

O Pornógrafo

1970

The Awakening of the Beast poster
5.5

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.

The Awakening of the Beast

1970

The End of Man poster
6.0

A naked stranger emerges from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world.

The End of Man

1971

Corrida em Busca do Amor poster
9.0

Two groups of men fighting to conquer an automobile race bowl.

Corrida em Busca do Amor

1972

The Vampire of the Cinematheque poster
7.0

As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends in Super 8mm he also becomes the vampire of the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. In O VAMPIRO DA CINEMATECA Ferreira develops a poetic representation of his idea of “inventive cinema” without a plot in the classical sense. Ferreira mixes situations of everyday life in the streets of São Paulo with scenes from classics of film history, which he filmed from television or from a projection with his Super 8 camera. The author as a vampire sucks from various sources – not only in cinema, but also in poetry and music – and creates a portrait of his time.

The Vampire of the Cinematheque

1976

Beautiful and Corrupted poster
9.0

Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers.

Beautiful and Corrupted

1977

Audácia! poster
7.3

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.

Audácia!

1970

Ainda Agarro Esse Machão poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ainda Agarro Esse Machão

1976

Sertão em Festa poster
6.3

Country family strikes rich and move to the big city, but something changes.

Sertão em Festa

1970

Gringo, o Último Matador poster
7.0

Man runs away with the daughter of a couple murdered by his father, head of a gang, attracting his persecution.

Gringo, o Último Matador

1972

No Rancho Fundo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

No Rancho Fundo

1971

Noite em Chamas poster
4.2

A depressed hotel servant goes through a rough night, while his story's interlaced with a number of situations experienced by the hotel guests.

Noite em Chamas

1978

Behind the camera

Movie Dementia poster
6.3

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.

Movie Dementia

1986

Movie Dementia poster
6.3

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.

Movie Dementia

1986

The Island of Prohibited Pleasures poster
4.1

There's the continent ruled by a repressive government and there's an island where political activists of the continent take refuge on running away from the continent's police. This island is their last stand – there they live in a way not possible in the continent – free love, no possessions, brotherhood… In the continent, a killer is sent to the island to kill the revolutionary leaders. The killer is a woman , Ana (Neide Ribeiro). She will go there as a journalist sent there to interview the leaders of the movement. On arriving to the island, she will find out that things were much different from what she expected. Will Ana be involved by the "island of forbidden pleasures." Will she fulfill her mission?

The Island of Prohibited Pleasures

1979

The Island of Prohibited Pleasures poster
4.1

There's the continent ruled by a repressive government and there's an island where political activists of the continent take refuge on running away from the continent's police. This island is their last stand – there they live in a way not possible in the continent – free love, no possessions, brotherhood… In the continent, a killer is sent to the island to kill the revolutionary leaders. The killer is a woman , Ana (Neide Ribeiro). She will go there as a journalist sent there to interview the leaders of the movement. On arriving to the island, she will find out that things were much different from what she expected. Will Ana be involved by the "island of forbidden pleasures." Will she fulfill her mission?

The Island of Prohibited Pleasures

1979

As Safadas poster
6.1

Three stories. 'Rainha do Fliper' (Pinball's Queen) Reginéia is the pinball's queen, exploited by her pimp Giba. Out of the blue, her former boyfriend Tenório comes to the arcade place seeking out Reginéia. 'Uma Aula de Sanfona' (One Class of Accordion) Bank clerk Nanci and her friend Cristina have come from Ribeirão Preto and share an apartment in São Paulo. Nanci has an argument with her lover Valdemar, and goes to her room blaming her upset on the accordian lessons that her neighbor, Durval Pereira, is giving on the floor above, but what is his secret? 'Belinha, a Virgem' (Belinha, the Virgin) The wedding day of the virgin, Belinha is rapidly approaching,. But the wedding is against the will of her fiancé's mother. When her future mother-in-law asks the parochial priest to check whether Belinha is virgin or not, the girl uses her sculptural body to resolve the situation.

As Safadas

1982

The Empire of Desire poster
5.5

A widow named Sandra is on a trip from the city to reclaim her remote beach house from squatters. She picks up a hippie couple along the way, eventually inviting them to become housesitters at her coastal getaway.

The Empire of Desire

1981

The Empire of Desire poster
5.5

A widow named Sandra is on a trip from the city to reclaim her remote beach house from squatters. She picks up a hippie couple along the way, eventually inviting them to become housesitters at her coastal getaway.

The Empire of Desire

1981

Sede de Amar (Capuzes Negros) poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sede de Amar (Capuzes Negros)

1978

Lilian M: Confidential Report poster
6.8

Maria, a countrywoman, leaves for São Paulo, where she becomes an industrialist's lover and meets all kind of people but, dissatisfied, she returns to the country to meet her family again.

Lilian M: Confidential Report

1975

Lilian M: Confidential Report poster
6.8

Maria, a countrywoman, leaves for São Paulo, where she becomes an industrialist's lover and meets all kind of people but, dissatisfied, she returns to the country to meet her family again.

Lilian M: Confidential Report

1975

Lilian M: Confidential Report poster
6.8

Maria, a countrywoman, leaves for São Paulo, where she becomes an industrialist's lover and meets all kind of people but, dissatisfied, she returns to the country to meet her family again.

Lilian M: Confidential Report

1975

Corrida em Busca do Amor poster
9.0

Two groups of men fighting to conquer an automobile race bowl.

Corrida em Busca do Amor

1972

Corrida em Busca do Amor poster
9.0

Two groups of men fighting to conquer an automobile race bowl.

Corrida em Busca do Amor

1972

Snuff, Victims of Pleasure poster
5.7

After producing a successful underground snuff movie, were the lead actress is raped and killed, the Brazilian Miguel returns to São Paulo pretending to be the American director Michael Tracey and convinces his partner Bob Channing to cast and hire a crew to produce another movie. With attractive salaries, they hire the broken cinema technician Edson Lima and his assistant Juarez. Together, they cast the stripper and hooker Lia de Souza; the decadent and former famous actress Taty Ibanez; the aspirant actress Glória Verdi; the candidate of Miss Contest, the Miss São Paulo Maria Rosa; and an actor interned in a mental institution, Sérgio Bandeira. The group believes that they are going to secretly shoot porn, and moves to the small town of Limeira. When Bob falls in love for Lia, he tries to convince Michael to forget the snuff and avoid her death. But Michael is reluctant and does not want to give up his project. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Snuff, Victims of Pleasure

1977

Girls from ABC poster
6.1

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.

Girls from ABC

2003

Girls from ABC poster
6.1

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.

Girls from ABC

2003

Fake Blonde poster
6.0

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.

Fake Blonde

2007

Fake Blonde poster
6.0

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.

Fake Blonde

2007

As Libertinas poster
6.5

In a holiday camp, couples live situations of sex and love, in three segments: Alice, Angélica and Ana.

As Libertinas

1968

As Libertinas poster
6.5

In a holiday camp, couples live situations of sex and love, in three segments: Alice, Angélica and Ana.

As Libertinas

1968

Confiscated Goods poster
5.6

Betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After one of his lovers commits suicide, he has his illegitimate son kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. The Senator chooses another former lover to take care of his son, and the two of them become involved beyond that of a mother son relationship.

Confiscated Goods

2005

Confiscated Goods poster
5.6

Betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After one of his lovers commits suicide, he has his illegitimate son kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. The Senator chooses another former lover to take care of his son, and the two of them become involved beyond that of a mother son relationship.

Confiscated Goods

2005

Amor, Palavra Prostituta poster
6.9

Follows the relationship between two couples: An unemployed professor, Fernando, sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita, and sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperient Lilita.

Amor, Palavra Prostituta

1982

Amor, Palavra Prostituta poster
6.9

Follows the relationship between two couples: An unemployed professor, Fernando, sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita, and sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperient Lilita.

Amor, Palavra Prostituta

1982

Amor, Palavra Prostituta poster
6.9

Follows the relationship between two couples: An unemployed professor, Fernando, sustained by his factory worker girlfriend Rita, and sexist and reactionary Luís Carlos and inexperient Lilita.

Amor, Palavra Prostituta

1982

O Guru e os Guris poster
7.5

A film about Maurice Legeard who run a cineclub in Santos.

O Guru e os Guris

1973

Audácia! poster
7.3

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.

Audácia!

1970

Audácia! poster
7.3

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.

Audácia!

1970

Suburban Angels poster
5.2

The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.

Suburban Angels

1987

Suburban Angels poster
5.2

The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.

Suburban Angels

1987

Two Streams poster
6.2

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time.

Two Streams

1999

Two Streams poster
6.2

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time.

Two Streams

1999

Damas do Prazer poster
9.0

In the underworld of "Boca do Lixo" in São Paulo, a heterogeneous group of prostitutes turns an alley into a meeting point where customers are attracted. They are women who sell themselves to men of all classes. Surrounded by drunks, addicts, bandits, drug dealers and pimps, together they form a gallery of characters put together by affliction and disappointment. Cora, an older woman who works to support her paralytic son. Beth, kind of a leader, who had to prostitute herself at an early age after leaving her small country town. Sônia, the most intelligent of the group, who lets herself be exploited by a ruffian. Brigite, daughter of factory workers. Vera, who just started in the profession. In addition to the drama of these women, there are many others who give themselves daily to customers who ignore their fate

Damas do Prazer

1978

Equilíbrio e Graça poster
9.0

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master.

Equilíbrio e Graça

2002

Equilíbrio e Graça poster
9.0

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master.

Equilíbrio e Graça

2002

Buccaneer Soul poster
6.4

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

Buccaneer Soul

1993

Buccaneer Soul poster
6.4

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

Buccaneer Soul

1993

Buccaneer Soul poster
6.4

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

Buccaneer Soul

1993

This Street So August poster
7.5

A short documentary that uses irony to approach the most fashionable São Paulo street in the 60s: the Rua Augusta (Augusta St.), with its classic personages and most frequented spots.

This Street So August

1968

This Street So August poster
7.5

A short documentary that uses irony to approach the most fashionable São Paulo street in the 60s: the Rua Augusta (Augusta St.), with its classic personages and most frequented spots.

This Street So August

1968