The Secret Agent

2h 38m·2025

Winner Best Director, Best Actor, FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Fesitval 2025

1977. In a Brazil tormented by the military dictatorship, Marcelo, a man in his forties fleeing a troubled past, arrives in the city of Recife where he hopes to build a new life and reconnect with his family. That's without taking into account the death threats that lurk and hover over his head. 

Directed by
Kleber Mendonça Filho