Lina Romay

Acting

Lina Romay

Born 1954-06-25 · Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Romay was born in Barcelona in 1954. Following graduation from high school, she studied the arts, married actor/photographer Ramon Ardid/ Raymond Hardy (they later divorced in 1978), and began acting in stage productions. She began appearing in Jesús Franco's films from the time that they met in 1972. She appeared in more than a hundred feature films, most of them directed by Franco. Among the better known of her horror films are The Bare Breasted Countess (a.k.a. Female Vampire) (1973), Barbed Wire Dolls (1975) and Jack the Ripper (1976). She took the name Lina Romay from the actress and jazz artist from the 1940s. Although Romay was listed in the credits of several of Franco's films as a co-director, actor Antonio Mayans stated in a recent interview that Franco used to credit her in that manner for business reasons, although she never actually co-directed any of their films together. She did however contribute occasional story ideas and assist in the editing of some films and trailers. Lina Romay and Jesús Franco lived as a couple for close to four decades, but only officially married on April 25, 2008. She died from cancer at the age of 57 on 15 February 2012, in Málaga, Spain. Franco died soon after in 2013.

Acting credits

My Pussy is the Best poster
5.0

A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire ...

My Pussy is the Best

1982

Downtown poster
5.6

A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband winds up with three bullet holes that seem to have come from the private eye's own gun, he's got to prove he's not the murderer meanwhile getting tangled deeper in a web of deceit, lies, and steamy night club dancers!

Downtown

1976

Call Him Jess poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Call Him Jess

2000

Cecilia poster
4.1

After repeatedly flaunting her peerless body to her servants, snobbish aristocrat Cecilia becomes the victim of rape. But the experience triggers a carnal awakening, full of socialite sex parties and woodland orgies. And before long, Cecilia finds her amorous adventures spinning out of control, particularly when her husband decides to join in on the free-love lifestyle.

Cecilia

1983

White Cannibal Queen poster
4.6

A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.

White Cannibal Queen

1980

Erotic Symphony poster
5.5

Jess Franco film about a woman returning home from an insane asylum only to discover her husband is now living with a man. The two men eventually find a nun who's been raped and the three come up with a plot to kill the wife for her money.

Erotic Symphony

1980

Downtown Heat poster
4.1

A young jazz-composer turns vengeful commando against local drug Mafia Capos when his wife is killed at the hands of Caribbean drug dealers.

Downtown Heat

1994

Red Silk poster
3.3

Gina and Tina, besides being two libidinous striptease dancers, also work as private detectives. Hired by an old millionaire to recover a videotape with compromising images for him, the two embark on the wildest adventures.

Red Silk

1999

Female Vampire poster
4.5

A mute noblewoman's vampiric heritage compels her to drain the life force from all of her lovers.

Female Vampire

1975

Greta, the Mad Butcher poster
4.8

A young woman feigns illness in order to infiltrate a mental hospital, where she investigates the disappearance of her sister, a former patient. Meanwhile, the hospital warden and her attendants abuse and torture their charges, forcing them to star in cheap skinflicks.

Greta, the Mad Butcher

1977

Blind Target poster
3.4

A popular American novelist, who has written her first non-fiction work about the political infidelities and corruption within the tiny South American country of San Hermoso, returns to that very country as part of a publicity junket prepared by her publishing company. Traveling with her best friend and confidant, she is abducted by a mysterious cartel that proves to be the secret police arm of the government. In order to win her freedom and to save her friend's life, she is forced to commit a murder that would be beneficial to San Hermoso's dictator. Will she be willing to trade a life for a life and pull the trigger to murder her unknown target in cold blood? Will the C.I.A. be able to reach her in time? Will she even survive?

Blind Target

2000

Sex Is Crazy poster
5.7

Adult film actresses get abducted and impregnated by aliens after appearing in a sci-fi porno. Knocked up with high-powered extraterrestrial sperm that allows them to conceive and give birth in a matter of seconds, the starlets become human breeding machines for a race of ultra-horny invaders.

Sex Is Crazy

1981

No artwork available
7.0

Ultra low budget horror-comedy involving a demonic cenachero (dancing fisherman).

See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!

2004

The Ticklish Ones poster
3.8

Central America in 1915. It is the age of revolutions, tyranny, captains and colonels in a small provincial town that is often invaded by some revolutionary group or other. There is a brothel of which the Madame Simone and most of the girls, are French. Many of the girls are in love with rebel leader Carlos Ribas and when government troops re-occupy the area, they hide him. When the soldiers discover him, they take both him and the girls prisoner. The governor sends the girls out in a cart to amuse the troops, but they manage to escape along the way and take refuge in a convent where they take over the nuns.

The Ticklish Ones

1975

Lorna, the Exorcist poster
4.9

Twenty years after seducing a businessman, a demonic temptress lays claim to the man's daughter.

Lorna, the Exorcist

1974

Macumba Sexual poster
5.1

Princess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple of yuppies, so that she can imbue them with evil and conquer the world.

Macumba Sexual

1983

Kiss Me Killer poster
4.1

A deadly look into the savage world of gangsters. The aftermath of a holdup turns into a game of deceit and doublecross. A vengeful woman brings about the destruction of the entire gang of ruthless killers.

Kiss Me Killer

1977

Celestine poster
5.6

The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la Braquette's estate, she meets the hayseed handyman Sébastien and the butler Malou, who reward her favors with the offer of employment. In a manner recalling Terence Stamp's effect on the household in TEOREMA, Celestine's open and relaxed attitude toward sexuality has a transformative effect on the isolated, moribund inhabitants of the mansion, imbuing them with gift of renewed life for the men and women alike, that remains even after a third act twist that forces her to betray them.

Celestine

1974

Barbed Wire Dolls poster
4.7

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.

Barbed Wire Dolls

1976

Fury in the Tropics poster
3.7

Two prostitutes in a small corrupt South American town, falls in love with a freedom fighter, posing as a guard at the local prison. Run by the corrupt Governor and a sadistic wardress.

Fury in the Tropics

1986

Broken Dolls poster
2.5

A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After a few years, the entire group has disintegrated into shameless, selfish & dishonest personalities.

Broken Dolls

1999

Jack the Ripper poster
5.9

A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.

Jack the Ripper

1976

Countess Perverse poster
4.6

Two rich aristocrats lure a virgin to a remote Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism.

Countess Perverse

1975

Golden Temple Amazons poster
4.1

A woman, raised by an Amazon tribe after they killed her parents, seeks revenge on the tribe for their deaths by joining an expedition looking for the tribe's secret golden temple.

Golden Temple Amazons

1986

Behind the camera

Blind Target poster
3.4

A popular American novelist, who has written her first non-fiction work about the political infidelities and corruption within the tiny South American country of San Hermoso, returns to that very country as part of a publicity junket prepared by her publishing company. Traveling with her best friend and confidant, she is abducted by a mysterious cartel that proves to be the secret police arm of the government. In order to win her freedom and to save her friend's life, she is forced to commit a murder that would be beneficial to San Hermoso's dictator. Will she be willing to trade a life for a life and pull the trigger to murder her unknown target in cold blood? Will the C.I.A. be able to reach her in time? Will she even survive?

Blind Target

2000

Thong Girls poster
3.7

A comedy set mostly on the beach, where countless men are trying to impress various women.

Thong Girls

1987

Cries of Pleasure poster
4.4

A man invites a woman to his house to live with him, just before the arrival of his wife who is coming back from the insane asylum.

Cries of Pleasure

1983

Vampire Junction poster
2.6

Mados, a Reporter in town for an interview gets more than she bargained for at the Vampire Junction.

Vampire Junction

2001

Killer Barbys vs. Dracula poster
4.1

The Killer Barbies are playing at Tivoli World, a Wild West park in Spain. Komrade Irina and Komrade Ivan Ivanovich arrive from Transylvania, bringing with them the "dead" Count Dracula to be placed on display. After hearing the Killer Barbies, however, Dracula awakens, falls in love with Silvia (who looks like Charo on a bad hair day), and decides to make her his own. Realizing that they have a vampire on their hands, park owners Pepe Morgan and Martin Fierro call in the world famous, blind vampire hunter, Dr Seward. While Seward tries to track Dracula with his nose, Dracula manages to knock off a few cast members -- a faux Dracula, Bela, an acrobot with orange hair, and both Komrades Ivan and Irina. When Dracula tries to bite Silvia during a performance, Dr Seward decides to use Silvia as bait. He sends her out walking alone. When Dracula follows, they pursue and stake him. Dracula metamorphs into a white rabbit and hops away.

Killer Barbys vs. Dracula

2002

Snakewoman poster
4.0

A company is interested in acquiring the rights to a cult movie icon Oriana Balasz's estate, so they send a representative, Carla who is given the task of persuading her heirs to sell the rightism. What appears to be a routine task quickly becomes difficult when the eccentric heirs reveal their intentions regarding the estate. Upon making their acquaintance, the agent discovers that they live a life of unbridled hedonism. This is a family with some sizable skeletons in their collective closet, and as the agent delves ever deeper into their mysterious background, she slowly begins to succumb to their dark and seductive charm.

Snakewoman

2005

No artwork available
NR

A short directed by Lina Romay as Rosa Maria Almirall.

Express Train

1982

No artwork available
6.0

A short documentary directed by Lina Romay and Jess Franco.

El huésped de la niebla

1982

No artwork available
6.0

A short documentary directed by Lina Romay and Jess Franco.

El huésped de la niebla

1982

The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist poster
5.3

A man, obsessed with sex, is dedicated to spying on women as they make love. 'The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist' forms part of the 10 films made by Jesus Franco at the dawn of the Spanish X cinema with very few resources, lots of imagination and a roster of enthusiastic actors and technicians who became pioneers of the genre.

The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist

1986

Falo Crest poster
7.2

Heiress, Angela Channing, invites her family to her villa to unveil a new product in the family’s wine range and also share the secret of the success of their vineyard. The success and great taste is apparently due to the wine being mixed with the Channing ancestors’ spunk which has been bottled and preserved for added flavour. This spunk & wine combination also acts as a powerful aphrodisiac and while her children are intoxicated on the cloudy brew, Angela Channing makes the final move in her dastardly plot.

Falo Crest

1987

The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist poster
5.3

A man, obsessed with sex, is dedicated to spying on women as they make love. 'The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist' forms part of the 10 films made by Jesus Franco at the dawn of the Spanish X cinema with very few resources, lots of imagination and a roster of enthusiastic actors and technicians who became pioneers of the genre.

The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist

1986

A Crack for Two poster
7.0

Secret agents against spies who hide microfilm up their behinds.

A Crack for Two

1984

A Crack for Two poster
7.0

Secret agents against spies who hide microfilm up their behinds.

A Crack for Two

1984

Phollastía poster
7.7

An adult film parody of the TV show 'Dynasty'.

Phollastía

1987

Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist poster
4.0

Candy tells the story of her life, her dissatisfaction with her male lovers, her desire for her girlfriend Katy and the route that led her into stripping.

Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist

1983

Entre pitos anda el juego poster
6.5

Candy's husband seems completely disinterested in satisfying her sexual desires, so she must seek elsewhere for satisfaction.

Entre pitos anda el juego

1986

Para las nenas, leche calentita poster
8.0

A wacky couple runs 'Hotel Venus' in which lots of sexual activity takes place and many comic misadventures are had.

Para las nenas, leche calentita

1986

No artwork available
7.0

Adult movie directed by Jesús Franco.

Un pito para tres

1985