The Secret Agent
7/10Watched 20262h 41mThriller · Crime · DramaReleased 2025
Chris's take
Great production value, solid acting, and really perfects the Brazilian time period. However it is very long and a quite slow, with the central plot never really deepening to the extent it could - it feels like it had potential for much more.
Director
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast
Wagner Moura
Marcelo Alves / Armando Solimões / Fernando Solimões
Alice Carvalho
Fátima
Gabriel Leone
Bobbi
Isabél Zuaa
Tereza Victória
Maria Fernanda Cândido
Elza
Udo Kier
Hans
Robson Andrade
Clóvis
Rubens Santos
Natalício
Plot overview
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.