The Secret Agent

2025 [PORTUGUESE]

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

39
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 98% · 170 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 24959 25K

police professor 1970s secret agent dictatorship farcical

Director

Kleber Mendonça Filho Photo
Kleber Mendonça Filho

Top cast

Udo Kier Photo
Udo Kier as Hans
Wagner Moura Photo
Wagner Moura as Marcelo Alves
Wilson Rabelo Photo
Wilson Rabelo as Chico
Nivaldo Nascimento Photo
Nivaldo Nascimento as Lucio Motorista
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1.44 GB
1280*540
Portuguese 2.0
R
Subtitles us  fr  
24 fps
2 hr 40 min
Seeds 100+
2.96 GB
1920*810
Portuguese 5.1
R
Subtitles us  fr  
24 fps
2 hr 40 min
Seeds 100+
2.68 GB
1920*810
Portuguese 5.1
R
Subtitles us  fr  
24 fps
2 hr 40 min
Seeds 100+
7.19 GB
3840*1606
Portuguese 5.1
R
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
2 hr 41 min
Seeds 100+

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by planktonrules 8 / 10

A misleading title and some pretty horrific violence... but a film still well worth seeing.

Reviewed by LouD-91 7 / 10

Nice movie, not so good as a thriller

Kleber Mendonça Filho's Secret Agent is a film of striking visual elegance. Its art direction is nothing short of superb, reconstructing 1970s Recife with a sense of texture and atmosphere that is both raw and poetic. The city emerges not just as a backdrop, but as a living, breathing character - a mix of beauty, decay, and tropical melancholy. The film is also populated by a gallery of eccentric characters, embodied by an equally eccentric cast that gives the work a peculiar and often intriguing rhythm.Yet, despite this sensory richness, Secret Agent ultimately feels weighed down by its own self-awareness. The screenplay is disappointingly unoriginal and excessively self-referential, operating more as a parnassian memorial to the director's own childhood than as a gripping piece of suspense. What could have been an inventive political thriller dissolves into a predictable collage of Brazilian clichés - corruption, nostalgia, and class tension - presented with a kind of weary inevitability that borders on pamphleteering.Wagner Moura, despite critical praise, delivers an oddly muted performance. His restrained acting feels more absent than subtle, and the decision to have him play both father and son proves to be an unnecessary and somewhat embarrassing gimmick that adds little to the story's emotional weight.In the end, Secret Agent stands as a technically accomplished but dramatically hollow film - a beautifully framed echo chamber where form triumphs over substance, and personal memory overshadows genuine cinematic tension.
Reviewed by evanston_dad 8 / 10

Slow Burn Brazilian Thriller

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