Release Date
November 26, 2025 (Limited)
Director
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Writer
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast
Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Candido, Gabriel Leone, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho
Studio
Running Time
158 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for strong bloody violence, sexual content, language, and some full nudity
What is The Secret Agent about?
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 in Cannes.
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Brazil’s The Secret Agent is the gripping thriller that never was, a meandering two-hours-and-40-minute that is in desperate need of a heavy edit—but scene-by-scene it is a well made depiction of slow descent into authoritarianism through the eyes of the people affected.
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