Monday Night Cinema

The Secret Agent

(O Agente Secreto)

Featuring an outstanding, Oscar-nominated performance from lead Wagner Moura (I'm Still Here, Narcos), this latest drama from veteran director Mendonça Filho (Aquarius, Bacurau) is a tense, vibrant thriller.

Brazil 1977. Former university professor Marcelo is on the run from the country’s harsh military dictatorship. He returns to his hometown of Recife, where he hopes to reunite with his young son. A resistance group accommodates him in a safe house and sets him up with job in a government office responsible for issuing ID cards. But danger is never far away…

Unfolding in three parts and over several timelines, The Secret Agent allows its audience to relish in its reveals and intrigue as the story unhurriedly plays out. One of the must-see films of 2026.