Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
2025 | 158 mins | Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands | Portugese with English Subtitles
Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone

Showing Times

• Fri 27 Feb: 1pm + 8pm
• Sat 28 Feb: 1pm + 7.30pm
• Sun 1 Mar: 6.30pm
• Mon 2 Mar: 1pm* + 8pm
• Tue 3 Mar: 1pm
• Wed 4 Mar: 8pm*
• Sat 7 Mar: 7.30pm
• Mon 9 Mar: 5pm
• Thu 12 Mar: 5pm

*Descriptive Subtitles

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Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho (Neighbouring Sounds, Aquarius, Bacurau) teams up with a superb Wagner Moura (Narcos, Civil War) for this rich and arresting political thriller that was garlanded with awards at Cannes and Golden Globes. Hailed by critics as a fascinatingly unpredictable, shape-shifting epic The Secret Agent is steeped in history yet also feels remarkably contemporary, depicting a world of everyday corruption, threat and political turmoil that speaks to the present moment.

1977 Brazil: Amid the revelry of Carnival, widower Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in vibrant, violent Recife. A technology researcher who suddenly finds himself an unwitting target in the heart of the dictatorship’s political maelstrom, Marcelo is on the run from mercenary killers and the ghosts of the past. Amid mounting threats, Marcelo, aided by compatriots in the country’s growing underground resistance, remains focused on escaping Brazil with his young son.

BBFC Rating
Rated 15 – strong language, violence, injury detail, sex

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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