The Secret Agent
A slow-burn neo-noir political thriller set in 1977 Brazil under military dictatorship, rated R for strong bloody violence, sexual content, language, and some full nudity. The film is primarily aimed at adult audiences and carries intense, sustained threat alongside graphic injury detail.
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A shootout results in characters shot in the eye, cheek, neck, and leg with graphic close-up gore; one man is shot in the back of the head with blood and brain matter shown; multiple characters end up dead or critically wounded on the ground.
A stylized, darkly comic sequence features a severed human leg moving autonomously and attacking people, leaving them with heavily bloodied faces; the bloody stump is shown in close-up.
A man dreams of a reanimated corpse with blood streaming from a bullet wound in its head, accompanied by a figure in an unsettling mask.