SAO PAULO (AP) — “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of ...

Set in director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Brazilian hometown of Recife, the slyly titled The Secret Agent is a major work composed in a minor key. It follows an ordinary father and widower forced into ...

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” opens with a curious warning. “Our story is set in the Brazil of 1977,” white text reads as a yellow Volkswagen Beetle pulls into a gas ...

The award season last year leading up to the 97th Academy Awards was marked with some surprises, particularly in the category of Best International Feature. We saw the power of Brazilian cinema, as ...

“The Secret Agent,” Brazil’s entry for this year’s Best International Film Oscar nomination, arrives in Boston Friday on the heels of last year’s multiple Brazilian Oscar nominee “I’m Still Here” as ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Drenched in sex and death, “The Secret Agent” peers into the past in order to make sense of the present. The ...

Two months after its theatrical release, Brazilian neo-noir thriller The Secret Agent is said to be heading to the digital streaming space very soon. Written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, the ...

In a stacked year for international features headlined by Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice and Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winner It Was Just an Accident, Brazil's political thriller darling The Secret ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Director Kleber Mendonca Filho poses with his award for best director for the film "The Secret Agent" as well as the best ...

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” opens with a curious warning. “Our story is set in the Brazil of 1977,” white text reads as a yellow Volkswagen Beetle pulls into a gas ...