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The Profumo affair led to a government minister's resignation on 5 June 1963. In 1983, Christine Keeler talked to the BBC ...

That's not to say that The Secret Agent is quite as sensitive as I'm Still Here, but Kleber Mendonça Filho's stylish and vibrant political thriller makes up in pulpy excitement what it lacks in ...

By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The Secret Agent is set in Brazil in 1977. “Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run,” reads a synopsis. “He arrives in Recife ...

From left: Gabriel Leone, filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido and Alice Carvalho at 'The Secret Agent' photocall Monday in Cannes Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ...

The eponymous secret agent isn’t Marcelo (a university research scientist), but could be Elza (Maria Fernanda Cândido), a woman who arranged his alias as well as a job for him in Recife’s ...

A technology expert goes back to his hometown in 1977 to reunite with his young son and flee the country while hitmen hired by a corrupt federal official close in on him. By David Rooney Chief ...

Cannes: The "Bacurau" director returns with a vividly textured epic about a man trying to get out of 1970s Brazil or die trying. Born from the process of researching “Pictures of Ghosts” (a ...

A review of 'The Secret Agent' starring Wagner Moura in a thriller set in small town in Brazil in which a man comes back to for a new chance at life ...

The opening credits to director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” set the scene as Brazil, 1977, and then add, “a period of great mischief.” And that might be an appropriate ...