The Secret Agent (15)

Nominated for Best Picture, Best International Feature and Best Actor (for Wagner Moura – Narcos, Civil War) at the upcoming Oscars, Kleber Mendonca Filho’s (Neighbouring Sounds, Aquarius, Bacurau) rich, arresting thriller is the recent winner of Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor at the Golden Globes.

Brazil, 1977: Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in vibrant, violent Recife. A technology researcher who finds himself an unwitting target at the heart of the dictatorship’s political maelstrom, Marcelo is on the run from mercenary killers and the ghosts of his past.

A fascinating, shape-shifting epic, The Secret Agent pays tribute to the cinema of Filho’s youth while depicting a world of everyday corruption, threat and political turmoil that speaks to the current moment.