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The Secret Agent
March 30, 2026 7:15 PM
The Secret Agent is a neo-noir political thriller set in 1977 Brazil during the military dictatorship. It follows Armando (Wagner Moura), a former professor and technology expert on the run, who returns to Recife to find peace but becomes entangled in the era's pervasive, paranoid atmosphere of fear, surveillance, and corruption.
158 min
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Film Date Sponsor: Patrick Orovan, Real Broker, Ontario
Proceeds to Ancaster Community Services
Portuguese with English SubtitlesWon 76 International Awards and nominated for 147 others including 4 Oscar noms.Won 5 Cannes Awards
The complexity of the storytelling here is considerable, and probably wouldn’t work without a strong, grounding central presence. It’s thus hard to say enough about the quality of Moura’s performance. Adam Nayman/Toronto Star
[Writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho] crafts a tight story with startling freedom, leaping between characters in order to conjure their fateful interconnections, while giving them all, persecuted and persecutors alike, an identity and a voice. Richard Brody/The New Yorker
You won’t see a better political thriller this year than Filho’s ultra-chic genre entry, loosely in the spirit of a Costa-Gavras picture. Tomris Laffly/Elle
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