Official US Trailer for Brazil’s ‘The Secret Agent’ with Wagner Moura
by Alex Billington
October 16, 2025
Source: YouTube
“To a better Brazil, with less mischief.” 🇧🇷 Neon has debuted the full official US trailer for the acclaimed Brazilian film titled The Secret Agent or O Agente Secreto, the latest from Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. This first premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews, and it went on to win both Best Actor and Best Director awards at the fest. Now opening in US theaters starting in November this fall during the awards season. In 1977, a tech researcher flees from a mysterious past and returns to his hometown of Recife in North Brazil in search of peace. He soon realizes that the city is far from being the safe refuge he seeks. Wagner Moura stars in this as the “secret agent” Marcelo. Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho teams up with renowned Brazilian actor Wagner Moura – giving an extraordinary, career-defining performance – to craft a thrillingly unpredictable, playfully shape-shifting epic steeped in history even as it feels contemporary, paying affectionate tribute to many movies in Filho’s youth while unfolding against the backdrop of political turmoil and palpable danger. After playing at TIFF & NYFF it’s regarded as one of the best foreign films of the year with a brilliant performance by Moura. Absolutely worth your time.
Here’s the official US trailer (+ poster) for Kleber Mendonça Filho’s film The Secret Agent, via YouTube:
You can rewatch the teaser trailer for Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent right here for even more.
Amid the raucous revelry of Carnival week, a widower named Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in 1977 in Recife, Brazil, a city as vibrant as it is violent. A researcher who finds himself an unwitting target in the heart of the dictatorship’s political maelstrom, Marcelo is a man on the run from mercenary killers, from ghosts of the past & from the ruthless, mischievously militant spirit of Brazil in 1977. In the midst of these mounting threats, Marcelo, with the help of a mysterious woman named Elza and her compatriots in the country’s growing underground resistance, remains primarily focused on escaping Brazil with his young son. The Secret Agent, also known as O Agente Secreto in Portuguese, is written and directed by acclaimed Brazilian writer / director Kleber Mendonça Filho, director of the films Neighboring Sounds, Aquarius, Bacurau, CrÃtico, Pictures of Ghosts, and many other short films. It’s produced by Emilie Lesclaux, Wagner Moura, Kleber Mendonça Filho. This initially premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Neon debuts The Secret Agent in select US theaters starting on November 26th, 2025 this fall. Intrigued?
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