Bacurau

In anticipation of the upcoming feature The Secret Agent — and in tribute to the late, unforgettable Udo Kier — we present Bacurau.

A fierce, genre-bending political thriller from filmmakers Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, Bacurau drops us into a remote Brazilian village that suddenly vanishes from the map — and soon finds itself fighting for survival against forces far stranger and more brutal than expected.

A few years from now… Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its 94-year-old matriarch, Carmelita. Days later, its inhabitants (including Sônia Braga) notice that their village has disappeared from online maps, and a UFO-shaped drone drifts ominously overhead. As unknown forces move to expel them from their land, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier descends on the town, picking off residents one by one.

Udo Kier delivers one of his most chilling late-career performances, embodying the film’s blend of pulp menace, dark humor, and political fury. Revisiting the film now doubles as an homage to an actor who made every role unforgettable.

Part neo-Western, part sci-fi siege film, part sharp political allegory, Bacurau remains one of the most vital and provocative films of the last decade — and a perfect lead-in to Mendonça Filho’s upcoming The Secret Agent.