Armando Solimões, the mournful-eyed central character played by Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent, isn’t a government operative, despite the title of the film. He also isn’t undercover, exactly, though ...

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

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 former television producer Wendy Prior Fentress finds the most important background characters for films and shows. Over the past decade, Wendy Prior Fentress’s three-story, Dutch Colonial home ...

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 ...

Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s miliary dictatorship. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Adam Schweitzer, Matt Martin and Trevor Astbury are exiting for the agency's major rival. By Borys Kit, Erik Hayden It’s a pre-Thanksgiving surprise at two of the Big Three talent agencies. A trio of ...

The Netflix thriller starring Gabriel Basso will return just over a year after season two. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor Netflix is putting The Night Agent back on the job in early 2026.

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” opens with a curious warning. “Our story is set in the Brazil of 1977,” white text reads as a yellow Volkswagen Beetle pulls into a gas ...

The past is never the past is never the past — especially if you lived in Brazil in 1977, “a period of great mischief.” That’s the scene-setting intertitle that opens The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça ...