Amid the raucous revelry of Carnival week, a widower named Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in 1977 in Recife, Brazil, a city as vibrant as it is violent.

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Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins us to discuss his Oscar-nominated film, The Secret Agent, and the history that inspired it. The film is set in the northern Brazilian city of Recife in ...

A mystery looms over the first 90 minutes of The Secret Agent, the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s masterful fifth feature: Why is Armando Solimões on the run? The sad-eyed research ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Don’t run from your past. Revolutionize it! Taking place in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship, The Secret Agent follows Armando Solimoes (Wagner Moura), a technology ...

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'The Secret Agent' director Kleber Mendonca Filho accepts the Best Actor prize on behalf of Wagner Moura in Cannes 2025 Getty The success of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent — which caused a ...

Director Kleber Mendonça Filho tells IndieWire about using 130 years of cinematic tools to make "The Secret Agent." Director Kleber Mendonça Filho has noticed something about modern action films. For ...

THE SECRET AGENT is a mischievous political thriller from Kleber Mendonça Filho, starring Wagner Moura and set against the charged atmosphere of 1970s Brazil. Mass shooter in Canada high school kills ...