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Carlos Reichenbach

Carlos Reichenbach

Directing
1945-06-14
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Biography

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 & Full Filmography40 Titles

#1Audácia!

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Tonho

7.5 / 10
Comedy

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.

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#2Carlos Reichenbach: Relatório Confidencial

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Documentary

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.

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#3Sertão em Festa

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
ComedyMusic

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

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#4Do Triunfo à queda do Império Vitoriano

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Documentary

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#5Movie Dementia

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m as Man in Bathroom

6.3 / 10
FantasyDrama

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.

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#6Olhos Livres

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m as Carlos Reichenbach

8.8 / 10
Documentary

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#7Ainda Agarro Esse Machão

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#8The End of Man

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
DramaMysteryComedy

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.

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#9Fake Blonde

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m as Man in Bus Station

6.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

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.

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#10Corrida em Busca do Amor

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Cientista

9.0 / 10
Comedy

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

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#11Gringo, o Último Matador

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Adventure

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

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#12Person

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m as Self

8.2 / 10
Documentary

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.

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#13O Pornógrafo

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.7 / 10
Comedy

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.

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#14Critic

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m as Self

7.9 / 10
Documentary

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.

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#15The Awakening of the Beast

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.6 / 10
HorrorDrama

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

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#16Girls from ABC

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m as Dr. Manzini

6.0 / 10
DramaCrimeComedy

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.

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#17Beautiful and Corrupted

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
HorrorThriller

Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers.

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#18Carlão: Erudito e Popular

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Documentary

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#19The Woman Who Invented Love

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as English teacher

6.1 / 10
DramaRomance

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.

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#20The Vampire of the Cinematheque

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Documentary

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.

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#21Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

Movie - 2020, 2h 15m as Self (archive footage)

5.0 / 10
Documentary

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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#22Borboletas e Devassas

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#23The Red Light Bandit

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Gangster / Espectador no Cinema

7.7 / 10
ThrillerCrime

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.

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#24O Fim da Picada

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Horror

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.

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#25Carlão - Um Autor de Cinema

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Documentary

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

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#26No Rancho Fundo

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
MusicComedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#27The Body

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Comedy

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.

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#28The First Time of Brazilian Cinema

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m as Himself

1.0 / 10
Documentary

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.

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#29Scent of Gardenias

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Suspeito nº2

6.6 / 10
ThrillerMysteryDrama

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 adult son finds his mother in full professional decay.

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#30A Vermelha Luz do Bandido

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Documentary

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

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#31Noite em Chamas

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Ademar (Jornalista)

4.3 / 10
Drama

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

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#32Boca do Lixo: A Bollywood Brasileira

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Documentary

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.

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#33The Beauties of Billings

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
DramaDocumentary

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

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#34Através da Cidade Invisível

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
Documentary

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 and the possibility of people occupying the city streets.

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#35Que Filme 'Tu Vai' Fazer?

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Documentary

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#36Extremes of Pleasure

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Carlos Willer

5.2 / 10
Drama

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. But she invites the intellectual Marcela and broker Ricardo for a weekend together. Luiz's world is upset and the existential problems of all get entangled, with unexpected results.

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#37The Good Cinema

Movie - 2021, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
Documentary

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 razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.

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#38A Linguagem do Cinema

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
Documentary

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.

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#39Soberano

Movie - 2005, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
Documentary

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#40Candeias: Da Boca pra Fora

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Documentary

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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