Is ‘The Secret Agent’ movie based on a true story?

This Oscar-nominated thriller is now streaming on Netflix.
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Stream it or skip it: 'The Secret Agent' on VOD, a vibrant portrait of '70s era Brazil anchored by 2026 best actor Oscar nominee Wagner Moura

The 2019 genre-taunting masterpiece Bacurau put a new name in my mouth, Kleber Mendonca Filho, so it’s with much joy and bewilderment I can proclaim that The Secret Agent (now streaming on VOD ...
Houston Chronicle

Review: Brazilian film 'The Secret Agent' is a sweaty, tropical trip into a brutal past

You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...
Roger Ebert

Who Will Remember You?: “The Secret Agent” and the Humanities as Resistance

It’s 1977, a “time of great mischief” in Brazil, and in the opening minutes of Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s “The Secret Agent,” ...
Democracy Now

“The Secret Agent”: Kleber Mendonça Filho on His Oscar-Nominated Film & Brazil’s Military Dictatorship

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins us to discuss his Oscar-nominated film, The Secret Agent, and the history that inspired it. The film is set in the northern Brazilian city of Recife in ...