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The Best Films of the 1980s

The greatest films of the 1980s, from the end of New Hollywood to the rise of the modern blockbuster.

The Secret Agent (2025)

Kleber Mendonça Filho sets a vast stage for the tense political drama of The Secret Agent, tracing one dissident’s attempts to outmanoeuvre Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s, and studying historic expressions of grief and resistance distorted by its cruel, bureaucratic censorship.

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