“The Secret Agent” arrives at a strong moment for Brazilian cinema following the success of “I’m Still Here,” which won this ...

Wagner Moura has picked up awards right and left for Brazil's Oscar hopeful "The Secret Agent." The dictatorship drama couldn ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho has never been shy explicating how personal memories have seeped into his professional work. Born and ...

How do you make a movie about politics without making it appear as if you’re making a movie about politics? If you’re Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, you do it with a couple of elements of ...

The new movie "The Secret Agent" follows a man named Armando in hiding in the Brazilian city of Recife in 1977. Armando, who uses the alias Marcelo, is on the run from men hired by an industrialist to ...

Since its first screening at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it took home awards for Best Actor and Best Director, Kleber Mendonça’s “The Secret Agent” has been making waves on the festival ...

You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 ...

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 ...