A tense, darkly electrifying portrait of life under surveillance, The Secret Agent is the gripping new film from Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau, Aquarius), returning with a paranoid, sharply political thriller that probes the psychological toll of authoritarian power and the fear it breeds. Set against a society quietly rotting from within, the film captures the suffocating sensation of being watched—where every gesture feels suspect and trust erodes by degrees.

At its center is a man pulled into an opaque web of observation and coercion, navigating a world where loyalty is uncertain and resistance carries unseen consequences. Mendonça Filho unfolds the story with mounting dread, blending genre thrills with social critique as the line between personal morality and political survival begins to blur. What starts as controlled tension gradually escalates into something more destabilizing and morally fraught.

With his signature precision and formal confidence, Mendonça Filho delivers a film that is as gripping as it is unsettling—attuned to silence, space, and the violence implied rather than shown. The Secret Agent is a chilling, resonant work about power, complicity, and the quiet terror of living under systems designed to watch, record, and break you.