Recha is a self-taught director and screenwriter who never had any formal education in film. He has shot many short films and made his feature film debut with El cielo sube in 1991. He made his next film The Cherry Tree (L'arbre de les cireres) seven years later, and afterwards the drama Pau i el seu germà (2001) and Where Is Madame Catherine? (Los manos vacias, 2003). In the film Dies d'agost (2006), he starred together with his twin brother David Recha; they both wrote the screenplay and Marc directed it. His latest film is Little Indi (Petit indi, 2009).