At its best, spy cinema is one of the most engrossing and intense spectacles film has to offer. Whether it is in the form of the action-packed bombast and big set-piece splendor of the genre’s most ...

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"The Secret Agent is a film about memory, or the lack of memory. And generational trauma," said star Wanger Moura, accepting the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture. But "I think that if ...

If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins us to discuss his Oscar-nominated film, The Secret Agent, and the history that inspired it. The film is set in the northern Brazilian city of Recife in ...

Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” have been added to the Criterion Collection. The three releases, among the ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest is proving to be an awards season juggernaut. “The Secret Agent” won the Non-English Language Film Award at the Golden Globes on January 11, in a major indicator for ...

A billboard promoting the Oscar-nominated film The Secret Agent is displayed outside a movie theater in Sao Paulo, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilians ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilians celebrated the nomination of “The Secret Agent” film to four Oscar categories on Thursday, which many said confirmed the rise of Brazilian cinema and its universal appeal. ...