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 Oscar-nominated political thriller The Secret Agent is set to make its streaming debut on Hulu. Following major awards recognition, the film will soon be available to stream, expanding its reach ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Secret Agent, which is nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor ...

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 ...

Set in 1977, Wagner Moura plays a former researcher caught in the political turmoil of the Brazilian military dictatorship. "This smart, brutal, often funny thriller uses the travails of one ordinary ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto, 2025) marks a moment of consolidation in one of contemporary Brazilian cinema’s most consistent careers. Since his early short films such as ...