Carlos Reichenbach

Texas Carlos Massacre (2021)

Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie ("Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!") about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brings tog ...

Fake Blonde (2007)

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. ...

Friday Night, Saturday Morning (2006)

A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two lovers, each on a different side of the world; he is in Recife, she is in Kyiv. On one side is dark, on the ot ...

Confiscated Goods (2005)

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 southe ...

Girls from ABC (2003)

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. ...

Equilíbrio e Graça (2002)

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

Two Streams (1999)

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. ...

Vassourinha: The Voice and the Void (1998)

Experimental documentary about the life and work of obscure samba musician Vassourinha (1923-1942), born in São Paulo, who only recorded six 78rpm records, dying at 19. ...

Glaura (1995)

A musical about a woman who hates music. ...

Expression and Sensation (1994)

A free flight of memory, instinct, expressions and sensations. The unrevealed city is seen through the eyes of caged animals. ...

Buccaneer Soul (1993)

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

Sua Excelência, o Candidato (1991)

His name is Orlando Carvalho Lopes. In his forties and a confirmed bachelor, he is the son and grandson of traditional politicians, but has no political experience. His weapons? His name, because it carries weight, and his family, because it has a traditio ...

City Life (1990)

A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world. ...

Disorder in Progress (1990)

A short film made for City Life (1990) ...

Instinto Devasso (1987)

Suburban Angels (1987)

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

Movie Dementia (1986)

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-knowle ...

The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out (1985)

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro. ...

Made in Brazil (1985)

Segment 1: "Impossible Weekend." Desperate to attract the attention of a sexy teacher, a young man steals an experimental aphrodisiac from the laboratory and mixes it into the teacher's lunch. The result exceeds all expectations. ******** Segment 2: "A Cha ...

Elite Devassa (1984)

Theodoro, a country boy goes to São Paulo from Florianópolis to work as a driver. He starts to work for rich and domineering Mariana. When her husband, Renato travels in Europe on business, he takes her for a trip to Campos do Jordão, where she has a va ...

Extremes of Pleasure (1984)

Luiz Antônio, a sociologist, had his political rights suppressed, during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also, his wife Ruth had been tortured and killed. So he decides to hide in his niece Natércia and her husband Felipe's country house for a while ...

S.O.S. Sex-Shop (1984)

After seven years, Cláudio and Elisa's marriage is in danger. Some friends take Cláudio to a sex-shop, where he buys a rubber tongue, a little device that can save their relationship. ...

As Safadas (1982)

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 ...

Amor de Perversão (1982)

Tessa, a Gata (1982)

Tessa, Debora and Roberta have a strong bond. Surrounded by perverted men whose only pleasure is sadistic sex games, far out drug fantasies and to humiliate and abuse women, they must take action. ...

Love, Prostitute Word (1982)

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. ...

O Paraíso Proibido (1981)

Celso Felix, a successful radio broadcaster in the metropolis, is disillusioned with his everyday life and leaves his wife and children to live in a small beach town on the brazilian coast. ...

As Prostitutas do Dr. Alberto (1981)

The Empire of Desire (1981)

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 Woman Who Invented Love (1980)

Doralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, when she is raped by a butcher, a friend advises her to become a prostitute - and she does it. After that, all her wishes and longings will curl up into a fascinating vortex. ...

O Gosto do Pecado (1980)

After his wife leaves him, Júlio starts an affair with his secretary. ...

Viúvas Precisam de Consolo (1979)

Woman, Woman (1979)

Recently turned into a widow, Alice goes to the country to think about her life. There, she's courted by Luis Carlos but falls in love with Marta. However, Jumbo, a horse, also arouses strange and erotic feelings in her mind. ...

The Island of Prohibited Pleasures (1979)

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 t ...

The Lady of the Zone (1979)

Tenement women from the Bexiga neighborhood become prostitutes, induced by a mulatto woman and a crook. ...

Nem Verdade Nem Mentira (1979)

A mockumentary (or is it a fake fiction?) about journalism. ...

Buccaneer Blood (1979)

One of the first Brazilian movies to conjecture about contraculture and its reflexes on the behaviour of a generation. A tribute to the late poet and friend Orlando Parolini. ...

O M da Minha Mão (1979)

A documentary on Brazilian musician Mario Gennari and the bond between his music's sonority and the public space of the streets of São Paulo. ...

Dreams in Life (1979)

Two factory workers from the outskirts of São Paulo make a trip to a bathhouse close to the city. ...

Meus Homens, Meus Amores (1978)

Noite em Chamas (1978)

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

Force of the Senses (1978)

A writer moves to an isolated beach house to write a new book, and gradually gets involved with his odd new neighbors. ...

Sede de Amar (Capuzes Negros) (1978)

Damas do Prazer (1978)

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, dru ...

J.J.J., o Amigo do Super-Homem (1978)

A Praia do Pecado (1978)

Beautiful and Corrupted (1977)

Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers. ...

Excitation (1977)

Helena and Renato are a couple who leave behind the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house and help Helena recover from her nervous crises. But soon she begins to suffer from increasingly worrying hallucinations, and the house's mystery appliance ...

Snuff, Victims of Pleasure (1977)

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 ...

Lilian M: Confidential Report (1975)

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. ...

O Guru e os Guris (1973)

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

Corrida em Busca do Amor (1972)

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

Audácia! (1970)

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 ...

Orgy or The Man Who Gave Birth (1970)

A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among ...

As Libertinas (1968)

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

Esta Rua Tão Augusta (1968)

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. ...

Através da Cidade Invisível (2022)

Conducted from memory fragments of filmmaker Carlos Reichenbach, Through the Invisible City is a short documentary that provokes a brief reflective analysis on the role of cultural formation of cinemas and on the city model that is intended, public spaces ...

Olhos Livres (2021)

The Good Cinema (2021)

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most ra ...

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

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. ...

Carlos Reichenbach: Relatório Confidencial (2015)

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 inform ...

Do Triunfo à queda do Império Vitoriano (2014)

People Forward (2014)

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. ...

The First Time of Brazilian Cinema (2013)

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. ...

Carlão: Erudito e Popular (2012)

Boca do Lixo: A Bollywood Brasileira (2011)

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. ...

O Fim da Picada (2009)

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. ...

A Vermelha Luz do Bandido (2009)

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

Borboletas e Devassas (2009)

Carlão - Um Autor de Cinema (2008)

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

Critic (2008)

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 ...

Fake Blonde (2007)

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. ...

Person (2007)

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, fa ...

Soberano (2005)

Girls from ABC (2003)

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. ...

Candeias: Da Boca pra Fora (2003)

O Galante Rei da Boca (2003)

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 ...

A Linguagem do Cinema (2001)

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. ...

Scent of Gardenias (1992)

Daniel is a taxi driver who's married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. For more than a decade, Daniel nurtures a feeling of revenge for his ex-wife, which gains strength when their now ...

The Body (1991)

Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer. ...

Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer? (1991)

Wholes (1991)

When you split a hole in half, do you get two new holes or two half-holes? A portrait of São Paulo. ...

The Beauties of Billings (1987)

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry. ...

Movie Dementia (1986)

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-knowle ...

Extremes of Pleasure (1984)

Luiz Antônio, a sociologist, had his political rights suppressed, during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also, his wife Ruth had been tortured and killed. So he decides to hide in his niece Natércia and her husband Felipe's country house for a while ...

The Woman Who Invented Love (1980)

Doralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, when she is raped by a butcher, a friend advises her to become a prostitute - and she does it. After that, all her wishes and longings will curl up into a fascinating vortex. ...

Noite em Chamas (1978)

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

Beautiful and Corrupted (1977)

Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers. ...

Ainda Agarro Esse Machão (1976)

The Vampire of the Cinematheque (1976)

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 pl ...

Corrida em Busca do Amor (1972)

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

Gringo, o Último Matador (1972)

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

The End of Man (1971)

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. ...

No Rancho Fundo (1971)

O Pornógrafo (1970)

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 ...

The Awakening of the Beast (1970)

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

Audácia! (1970)

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 ...

Sertão em Festa (1970)

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

The Red Light Bandit (1968)

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 t ...