The Secret Agent
Portuguese (English subtitles) | Brazil | 161mins | 2025 | Cert: 15A | Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho
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Brazil, 1977. Marcelo is on the run from the country’s harsh military dictatorship. He returns to his hometown of Recife, where he hopes to reunite with his young son. A resistance group accommodates him in a safe house and sets him up with job in a government office responsible for issuing ID cards. But danger is never far away…
Winner of Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival in 2025, The Secret Agent contrasts high-energy 70s conspiracy thriller paranoia against the sobering reality of Brazil’s military dictatorship and how its effects still echo through to the modern day.
★★★★★ “… a weird and wonderful political thriller.” – The Irish Independent
★★★★★“The Secret Agent doesn’t have the imperatives of a conventional thriller and expecting these will cause impatience. It’s more novelistic in its way: a movie of character, a showcase for [Wagner] Moura’s complex, sympathetic performance – but also the platform for some thrilling, bravura film-making.” – The Guardian