If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...

From left: Gabriel Leone, filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido and Alice Carvalho at 'The Secret Agent' photocall Monday in Cannes Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Secret Agent, which is nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of ...

Neon acquired the Cannes winner for Best Actor and Best Director and is releasing it in theaters in November after a fall festival run. Wagner Moura‘s character in “The Secret Agent” is not a “violent ...

Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” have been added to the Criterion Collection. The three releases, among the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A billboard promoting the Oscar-nominated film The Secret Agent is displayed outside a movie theater in Sao Paulo, Thursday, Jan.

Tânia Maria to star in Leonardo Lacca's 'Sábado Morto,' produced by the Oscar-winning team behind 'The Secret Agent' ...