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The Secret Agent

2025 · Thriller · Kleber Mendonça Filho · 2h 40m

A technology expert returns to Recife during Carnival in 1977 with people looking for him and a young son to collect. Long, warm and steadily more dangerous.

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  • Clearly realistic
  • Clearly character-driven

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