Nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture (Drama) and Best Actor (Wagner Moura).
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting. Winner of Best Director and Best Actor (Wagner Moura) in 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (BACURAU) returns with a thrillingly unpredictable, empowering political fable about people swept up in forces beyond their control. A dynamic, shape-shifting epic set in the filmmaker’s hometown of Recife during the late 1970s, THE SECRET AGENT stars the magnetic Wagner Moura as widowed former university professor whose life has been violently upended by the greed and vengeance of a government bureaucrat. On the run and living under an alias during the country’s military dictatorship, he tries to escape, while also reconnecting with the young son he had to leave behind. Even a brief description cannot fully prepare viewers for the zigzagging subplots and delights of Mendonça’s eccentric and affectionate ode to the movies and the Brazil of his youth – and to maintaining individuality amid abuses of power.
“The Secret Agent is a remarkable work from Mendonça Filho; a beautifully composed film that features some of the best directing, editing, and writing of the year, as well as an enthralling performance by Moura that deserves its accolades.” – Collider
Rated R for strong bloody violence, sexual content, language, and some full nudity.
