Carlos

About Carlos

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

Carlos (2010) is a crime history film directed by Olivier Assayas. Its themes are true crime, gun, hostage situation, and car bomb.

Edgar Ramírez stars as Ilich Ramírez Sánchez ('Carlos'), Alexander Scheer as Johannes Weinrich, Nora Waldstätten as Magdalena Kopp, and Talal Jurdi as Kamal al-Issawi ('Ali'). It runs 339 minutes and was released in July 2010.

The screenplay is by Dan Franck and Daniel LeConte. Produced by Egoli Tossell Film. American members can watch it on AMC+ Amazon Channel.

The Hurt Locker, The Rock, and True Lies make useful companions to Carlos, all filed under terrorism. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 248 votes and it carries a NR rating.