Cinema
The Secret Agent
Fri 20 Feb - Thu 5 Mar 2026
"a tremendous, novelistic study of corruption in high and low places" - Guardian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
NOMINATED FOR BEST FILM AT THE 2026 ACADEMY AWARDS
Also nominated for Best Actor, Best Casting and Best International Feature Film.
A university professor travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he’s been tailed and spied on by neighbors in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption.
| Age Rating: | 15 |
| Language: | Portuguese with subtitles |
| Content Warnings: | strong language, violence, injury detail, sex |
| Director: | Kleber Mendonça Filho |
| Cast: | Wagner Moura, Robson Andrade, Rubens Santos, Licínio Januário |
| Company: | MUBI |
| Trailers: | 20 mins |
| Year of Release: | 2026 |