An opening title says that the film takes place in Brazil in 1977, during “a time of great mischief,” which turns out to be a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brazilians are celebrating the nomination of "The Secret Agent" for four Oscar categories, highlighting the rise of Brazilian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Director Kleber Mendonca Filho poses with his award for best director for the film "The Secret Agent" as well as the best ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto), Neon‘s thriller from writer-director ...

For a film that — on the surface — is about political dissidents and authoritarianism, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” spends a lot of time at the movies. Which makes sense because this ...

“The Secret Agent,” Brazil’s entry for this year’s Best International Film Oscar nomination, arrives in Boston Friday on the heels of last year’s multiple Brazilian Oscar nominee “I’m Still Here” as ...