The Secret Agent
O Agente Secreto
2025BrazilLanguage: ptDirected by Kleber Mendonça Filho★ 7.3
Available in English: subtitled
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.
Themes and style
Tone
tensemelancholichauntingbleak
Pacing
slow burnescalating
Story
escapepursuitsurvivalreunion
Emotion
paranoialongingfeeling powerlessgrief
Themes
life under oppressioncorrupt institutionsfamily wounds passed down
Feel
quietly hauntingcerebraldiscussion starterexhausting
Violence
moderate