Starring a compellingly internal Wagner Moura, Kleber Mendonça Filho's thriller revels in late-1970s period detail and the ...

The "Bacurau" director returns with a vividly textured epic about a man trying to get out of 1970s Brazil or die trying.

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 ...

In Kleber Mendonça Filho’s 1970s-set political thriller, Moura plays a man trying to reunite with his family and flee the country before government killers hunt him down. By Scott Roxborough Europe ...

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho's film features a great central performance by Cannes-winning Wagner Moura.

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” opens with a curious warning. “Our story is set in the Brazil ...

In “The Secret Agent,” audiences will meet hit men, zombie legs, corrupt cops, a two-headed cat and a quiet man who is ...

Wagner Moura plays a man on the run in oppressive times in “The Secret Agent.” Opening in theaters in limited release Wednesday, the Kleber Mendonça Filho film is set in 1977 in Brazil ...

Brazilian auteur Kleber Mendonça Filho dazzled cinephiles with 2016’s “Aquarius” and 2019’s “Bacurau,” but he may have achieved new heights with his latest, “The Secret Agent,” which now has an ...

Perhaps no better metaphor for Brazil in 1977 exists than the dead body that lies in front of a gas station in the opening ...

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 ...

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 ...