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Nouvelle Vague vs The Secret Agent

Side-by-side Celluloid Scores, four-input breakdown, country/runtime context, and an editorial angle — built for quick answers and AI citation.

Quick Answer

Is Nouvelle Vague or The Secret Agent the better watch?

Neither Nouvelle Vague nor The Secret Agent has a verified Celluloid Score yet. Nouvelle Vague is drama, comedy from France (90% critics); The Secret Agent is thriller, drama from Brazil (93% critics). Compare release facts, trailers and casts below.

The matchup

Nouvelle Vague is drama, comedy from France (90% critics); The Secret Agent is thriller, drama from Brazil (93% critics).

Side-by-side Celluloid Scores (four composite inputs plus a separate audience snapshot) for each film, plus runtime, country and genre — so you can see where critics and audiences diverge before choosing. Nouvelle Vague runs 106 minutes (2026); The Secret Agent runs 158 minutes (2026).

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Nouvelle Vague (2026)

Richard Linklater · Drama, Comedy · 1h 46m

France · French · Apr 11, 2026

Review pending — no verified score yet

Yes. It is a joyous, witty re-creation of the French New Wave's birth, best for cinephiles, and still charming for anyone who likes films about making films.

Paris, 1959: a restless young critic named Jean-Luc Godard races to shoot a low-budget crime romance that will become Breathless and rewrite cinema forever. Richard Linklater reconstructs the chaos of the New Wave's birth — stolen locations, jazz on the soundtrack, and the sheer arrogance required to break every rule on a shoestring.

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The Secret Agent (2026)

Kleber Mendonça Filho · Thriller, Drama · 2h 38m

Brazil · Portuguese · Jan 23, 2026

Review pending — no verified score yet

Yes. It is a rich, strange and gripping portrait of life under dictatorship, best for patient viewers who enjoy a thriller that takes detours.

Recife, 1977: Marcelo, a technology expert hunted by Brazil's military dictatorship, returns to his hometown hoping to reunite with the son he barely knows. Kleber Mendonça Filho folds archival dread, family melodrama, and paranoid thriller mechanics into a sprawling portrait of a city — and a nation — learning to live inside surveillance.

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Score breakdown

Signal Nouvelle Vague The Secret Agent
Celluloid Score — —
Editorial rating — —
Audience snapshot (excluded) — —
Metascore — —
Letterboxd 0 0
IMDb 0 0
Runtime 1h 46m 2h 38m
Country France Brazil

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