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 ...

To see his vision of a Mediterranean Revival-style hotel come to life, Laughner brought in a 350 European construction crew; in just 10 months, and at a cost of $3.5 million ($638.5 million in today’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The star of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s 1970s-set thriller warns that Trump's attacks on artists, journalists and democracy echo Brazil’s dictatorship. “Americans take democracy for granted. Brazilians ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Neon opens “The Secret Agent” in select theaters beginning November 26. In his 2023 essay film "Pictures of ...

The film by "Bacurau" auteur Kleber Mendonça Filho won the most major prizes of any movie at Cannes. Brazilian auteur Kleber Mendonça Filho dazzled cinephiles with 2016’s “Aquarius” and 2019’s ...

“The Secret Agent,” which won Best Director and Best Actor (for Wagner Moura), will hit fall festivals like the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival before Neon opens the ...

"To a better Brazil, with less mischief." Neon has debuted the full official US trailer for the acclaimed Brazilian film titled The Secret Agent or O Agente Secreto, the latest from Brazilian ...