The Secret Agent (15)

Running Time: 2hrs 40mins

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho

Cast: Wagner Moura, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândido

In 1977, Marcelo, an exiled technology teacher, moves from São Paulo to Recife during Carnival. In an attempt to escape his violent past and start a new life with his son, he finds a city full of chaos, danger and neighbouring spies all around him.

“This sparklingly seductive Oscar contender rivals a Hitchcock thriller. ‘The Secret Agent’, a throbbing Brazilian thriller about an academic on the run, is in the running for Best Picture.” – Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

“‘The Secret Agent’ pulses with heat and colour—carnival reds bleeding into coastal golds… every frame saturated with summer. It’s visually ravishing, making dictatorship-era Recife feel tactile and immediate.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian