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Romain Duris
Born on 28 May 1974 in Paris, son of an engineer-architect father, Duris studied arts at university. He was noticed in the street by a casting director whilst waiting in a queue in 1993 and offered a part in the 1994 Cédric Klapisch film Le péril jeune. His sister is pianist Caroline Duris, who performs on the soundtrack of the 2005 film The Beat That My Heart Skipped (French: De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté). Before going into acting, he started an acid-jazz band where he was a drummer. Duris lives in Paris near La Bastille area of Paris with his actress girlfriend Olivia Bonamy with whom he has a son, Luigi, born February 10, 2009.
Romain Duris is most famous for his role as the French exchange student Xavier Rousseau in The Spanish Apartment and The Russian Dolls. He has a reputation for versatility, having played a thug as well in The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
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Erasmus & Shared house... If you ve experienced one of these you ll recognized yourself 31 May 2005
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Superb feature 25 April 2006
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Top notch Klapisch 4 January 2007
Romain Duris - filmography
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The Big Picture
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Romain Duris, Catherine Deneuve, Marina Fois
Director: Eric Lartigau
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Paul Exben is a success story; a great job, a beautiful wife and two wonderful sons. Except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new identity that will enable him to live his life fully.
 
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from 771 members
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The Big Picture - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Romain Duris, Catherine Deneuve, Marina Fois
Director: Eric Lartigau
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Paul Exben is a success story a great job, a beautiful wife and two wonderful sons. Except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new identity that will enable him to live his life fully
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from 371 members
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Heartbreaker - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Andrew Lincoln
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
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A man who ruins relationships for a living may have finally found a woman he can't easily manipulate in this French comedy from writer and director Pascal Chaumeil. Alex (Romain Duris) is a handsome man who knows how to make women fall for him, and he's found an unusual way of making money from ..read more »
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from 2,802 members
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Heartbreaker
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Andrew Lincoln
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
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Meet Alex. He's charming, funny, effortlessly cool, and most importantly, irresistible to women. With his resourceful sister Melanie and her eccentric husband Marc, Alex offers a professional service – to break up relationships. In just a few weeks, for a fee equivalent to his reputation, he ..read more »
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Persecution
(2009)
Starring: Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Director: Patrice Chereau
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The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted by the appearance of a stranger that proceeds to insinuate himself in his life. The man's persistence takes its toll on Daniel and Sonia, leaving Daniel alone with nagging questions of "Why?"
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from 9 members
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Paris
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Xavier Robic, Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris
Director: Cédric Klapisch, Cédric Klapisch, Cedric Klapisch
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Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may save his life, he watches the world go by from the balcony of his Paris apartment. Even when Elise, his sister with three kids and no husband, moves in to care for him, Pierre does ..read more »
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from 4,136 members
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Afterwards
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Romain Duris, John Malkovich, Evangeline Lilly
Director: Gilles Bourdos
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Hotshot New York attorney Nathan Del Amico (Romain Duris) is skeptical when the strange Doctor Kay (John Malkovich) claims that he can sense when someone is about to die -- until inexplicable events cause Nathan to change his mind. Now believing that he sees signs of his own death, Del Amico takes ..read more »
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from 704 members
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Dans Paris
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Joana Preiss
Director: Christophe Honore
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Two of French cinema's hottest actors - Louis Garrel ("The Dreamers") and Romain Duris ("The Beat That My Heart Skipped") - star as two brothers in this story of love and heartbreak set in a gorgeously atmospheric Paris.
Distraught after the end of a long relationship, Paul (Romain Duris) moves ..read more »
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from 3,690 members
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Moliere
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante
Director: Laurent Tirard
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1644, Paris, and 22-year-old Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Molière, is not yet the writer that history recognizes as the father and true master of comic satire, author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, and a dramatist to rank alongside Shakespeare and Sophocles. Far from it. He is, in fact, ..read more »
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from 8,164 members
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Exiles
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Romain Duris, Lubna Azabel, Leila Makhlouf
Director: Tony Gatlif
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Zano and his companion Naima travel across France and Spain down to Algeria, where they might ultimately come to know the land their parents once had to flee. Enamored with their freedom, they let the time slip by, intoxicated by the Andalusia's sensuality, before they finally decide to cross the ..read more »
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from 655 members
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Dobermann
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Tchéky Karyo
Director: Jan Kounen
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The Dobermann (Vincent Cassel) is a class-A criminal for the 21st Century. Along with his beautiful partner Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci), and an arsenal of high-tech weaponry, he leads a gang of vicious underlings into one of the most daring heists ever attempted. Unfortunately for them, ..read more »
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from 2,970 members
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Maybe
(1999)
Starring: Romain Duris, jean paul belmondo
Director: Cedric Klapisch
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New Years Eve 1999. Arthur, a 24-year old science fiction fanatic, meets up with his friends at a lively party to welcome in the new millennium. As the clock counts down to midnight, he sneaks away to the bathroom to make love with his girlfriend, Lucy. When she reveals she wants to have a baby, ..read more »
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...ightly cheesy sometimes but the cast and directing are brillant. I really liked Romain Duris (Le Peril Jeune is his best performance) which is a young talented french actor...
