Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho is no stranger to Cannes, having debuted two previous films in Competition beginning with Aquarius in 2016 starring Sonia Braga, so effective as a woman ...

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' 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 ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Catching up on all of the Best Picture movies nominated for the 2026 Oscars just got a little easier, because the Brazilian political thriller, The Secret Agent, is now ...

If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...

The star of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s 1970s-set thriller warns that Trump's attacks on artists, journalists and democracy echo Brazil’s dictatorship. “Americans take democracy for granted. Brazilians ...

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 ...

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 ...