First Teaser for Brazilian Film ‘The Secret Agent’ with Wagner Moura

First Teaser for Brazilian Film ‘The Secret Agent’ with Wagner Moura

by Alex Billington
August 28, 2025
Source: YouTube

“I am under a death threat.” Neon has revealed the first look teaser trailer for the acclaimed Brazilian film titled The Secret Agent, the latest from Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. This originally premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival a few months ago to many positive reviews, and it went on to win both Best Actor and Best Director awards at the fest. Next playing at Telluride & NYFF. 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 and sound refuge he seeks. Wagner Moura stars 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 the movies of Filho’s youth while unfolding against the backdrop of political turmoil and palpable danger. Neon has this set to open in theaters in November, hoping it’ll be a major player during the awards season.

Here’s the first teaser trailer for Kleber Mendonça Filho’s film The Secret Agent, direct from YouTube:

Amid the raucous revelry of Carnival week, a widower named Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in 1977 in Recife, Brazil, a city as vivid 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 assist of a mysterious woman named Elza and her compatriots in the country’s growing underground resistance, remains primarily focused on escaping Brazil with his teenage 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, Crítico, Pictures of Ghosts, and many other low 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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