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The Secret Agent
2025 2h 41m Kleber Mendonça Filho

The Secret Agent

★ 7.2 IMDb
Mystery & Thriller Drama Crime
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.
Writer Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast Wagner Moura, Alice Carvalho, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone
Production Designer Thales Junqueira
Essays and Criticism
On this film
MUBI Podcast | “The Secret Agent”: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura on Memory and Manguebeat by MUBI Podcast, MUBI Notebook Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent, The Love That Remains, Magellan by Ben Kenigsberg, RogerEbert.com The Secret Agent by Melissa Anderson, 4Columns
In conversation with other films
The Oppressive State in the Past and Present, as Reflected in Four Films in the Competition by Mariana Hristova, FIPRESCI The Time Machine: In New York and Toronto by Maxwell Paparella, MUBI Notebook TIFF 2025: Hamlet, Rose of Nevada, No Other Choice by Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
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Awards & Festivals
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film
Won FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes
Nominated Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Nominated Academy Award for Best Picture
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