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,” 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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In 2023, Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho made a vastly underrated documentary, Pictures of Ghosts. Within the film, which explores (among many themes) the cinemas of Recife, the filmmaker ...

For the second year in a row, a Brazilian feature swept top honors at the annual Ibero-American awards event Premios Platino, ...

Secret Agent' star and Oscar nominee Wagner Moura stars in these two movies from the early 2000s that are suspenseful ...

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. ...