American audiences can get a taste of Brazilian history this holiday weekend with the upcoming U.S. release of The Secret Agent, a new historical political thriller that will be Brazil entry into the ...

The Secret Agent, written and directed be Kleber Mendonca Filho and starring Wagner Moura, is Brazil's 2026 Oscar entry.

A research scientist is on the run from hitmen in this thrilling film. Set in 1977 Brazil, The Secret Agent captures the ...

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Brazilian auteur Kleber Mendonça Filho dazzled cinephiles with 2016’s “Aquarius” and 2019’s “Bacurau,” but he may have achieved new heights with his latest, “The Secret Agent,” which now has an ...

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho's film features a great central performance by Cannes-winning Wagner Moura.

The "Secret Agent" star discusses the film directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, which explores 1970s Brazil's persecution of ...

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s movie opens with a curious warning. “Our story is set in the Brazil of 1977,” the ...

You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...

Armando Solimões, the mournful-eyed central character played by Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent, isn’t a government operative, despite the title of the film. He also isn’t undercover, exactly, though ...

The past is never the past is never the past — especially if you lived in Brazil in 1977, “a period of great mischief.” That’s the scene-setting intertitle that opens The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça ...

The protagonist of “The Secret Agent” isn’t a secret agent; he only lives like one. The reason for his clandestine maneuvering is apparent from the film’s first scene, when he pulls into a gas station ...