Brazilian auteur Kleber Mendonça Filho dazzled cinephiles with 2016’s “Aquarius” and 2019’s “Bacurau,” but he may have achieved new heights with his latest, “The Secret Agent,” which now has an ...

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 ...

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SAO PAULO (AP) — “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL - Oscar fever is rampant today in Brasil as everyone is talking about whether Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ...

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 ...

It’s 1977, a “time of great mischief” in Brazil, and in the opening minutes of Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s “The Secret Agent,” Marcelo (Wagner Moura) appears to be on the run. He drives in the blazing ...

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 ...

Netflix is marking its 15th anniversary in Brazil with the news that it will stream Oscar-nominated “The Secret Agent” exclusively in the country. It is also opening a spacious new office in São Paulo ...