Julián Román

Acting

Julián Román

Born 1977-10-23 · Bogotá, DC, Colombia

Acting credits

The Boss poster
3.7

A black office comedy about a head of human resources who threatens to run away with his wife's best friend to escape the insanity around him.

The Boss

2011

The Other Side poster
8.5

A forty-year-old poet wakes up handcuffed to a hospital bed. Accused of his mother's murder, he claims it was an act of love: a plan to aid his mother's death and end his own life at the same time.

The Other Side

2024

No artwork available
NR

30 actresses and actors from Latin America, seek to evoke hope in the midst of the health and economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, through the reading of fragments from the work of Gabriel García Márquez alluding to the plague of oblivion.

La peste del insomnio

2020

La fianza poster
5.5

A mother named Ana is celebrating her daughter's birthday when a strange man named Walter shows up asking about her husband, Ricardo. What seemed like an awkward visit quickly turns into a tense and dangerous situation, where Ana begins to uncover dark secrets about her husband's life.

La fianza

2024

La semilla del silencio poster
7.0

Maria del Rosario Duran, a human rights attorney investigating the participation of a top ranking military man in the disappearance of a group of young civilians, is mysteriously murdered. Detective Jorge Salcedo who was working with her on the case, gives himself to the task of discovering who's behind this crime, at risk of becoming the next victim.

La semilla del silencio

2015

Time Out poster
6.0

The whimsical and joyous parade of ridiculous events satirize the war that rages in Colombia right now and exposes the real spirit of those who inhabit such a beautiful country.

Time Out

1998

Between Heaven and Hell poster
7.7

Omar is the leader of a group of hit-men from Medellín, Colombia. When he meets a beautiful woman named Ilana, she will drastically change his world and environment.

Between Heaven and Hell

2011

El Culebro: My Father's Story poster
NR

The story of legendary Colombian actor Hernando "El Culebro" Casanova, told by his youngest son Nicolás Casanova, featuring unseen archival footage and unheard tracks.

El Culebro: My Father's Story

2022

The Deal poster
9.0

Based on a true story of a British television crew that travelled to Colombia to film a fake documentary about drug trafficking. In one scene, shot in the director’s hotel room, an actor played the part of a character whom the filmmakers passed off as Cali Cartel’s Number Three. They claimed they had risked their lives to get the interview. One sequence also shows a man pretending to swallow capsules of heroine and transporting them to London in his stomach. This phoney TV documentary is an international smash hit. When a London daily discovers that the whole thing is a hoax, a team of British journalists are sent out to Colombia to cover the story. Their report unleashes a scandal that shakes the very foundations of television in the UK.

The Deal

2005

Portraits in a Sea of Lies poster
7.8

A young woman experiences the worst life has to over in this depressing but worthwhile Colombian drama tinged with a hint of magical realism. Paola Baldion plays Marina, a withdrawn teenager whose abusive grand-dad houses her in a dilapidated shed. When the old fart pops his clogs, Marina passes into the care of cousin Jairo (Julian Roman), a cheesecake photographer who "hires" her to help him with his gear, and the two end up taking an episodic road trip as they travel to reclaim grandpa's legacy. Unpleasant flashbacks to Marina's tragic childhood ensue. Yep, the good times never end in this one! Known in English as Portraits in a Sea of Lies, this meditation on the 50-year long Colombian civil war - as seen through the grueling experiences of our heroine - won the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 14th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival.

Portraits in a Sea of Lies

2010

The First Night poster
7.3

A couple of farmers have been displaced from their land, a jungle area, isolated from the world, where lived his childhood and youth, and was brutally thrown to face the streets of an unfamiliar city, huge and ruthless.

The First Night

2003

Looking for Miguel poster
7.2

A wealthy Columbian politician blinded by his own privilege is forced to walk a mile in the shoes of the people he despises most after falling victim to a violent attack and subsequently losing his memory. Miguel was a man of fine stock, a politician who has led a charmed life since the day he was born. But Miguel has no appreciation for his lot in life, and scoffs at the everyday people who must struggle just to survive. One day, after being assaulted on the street and left for dead, Miguel awakens with no memory of the past. He has forgotten his distain for the dumpster divers, petty thieves, and wandering transients who crowd the city streets, and now their warmth and solidarity is the only thing keeping him alive. As Miguel forges a friendship with a pious but promiscuous drag queen, the fragments of the past gradually become illuminated in his mind, prompting him on a desperate quest to reclaim his identity and atone for the sins of his past.

Looking for Miguel

2007

Thread of Return poster
NR

A quiet and reticent teen returns to her village and painful past.

Thread of Return

2022