
Acting
Lina Romay
Born — Died
1954-06-25 — 2012-02-15
Place of birth
Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
79 titles
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 …
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4.1After 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
5.0A 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
5.6The 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
4.8A 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
4.5A 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
5.7A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret.
Faceless
1988
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
4.1The 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
2.6Mados, a Reporter in town for an interview gets more than she bargained for at the Vampire Junction.
Vampire Junction
2001
NRA short film about the production of Incubus by Jess Franco.
Journey into Perversion
2001
1990s · 6 titles
4.1A 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
4.2Down at the docks a very enterprising but dangerous element is making life miserable for Sheriff Marga. But she is distracted by a series of puzzling kidnappings that is plaguing her parish. Could the culprit be the mysterious Queen - the dance hall queen of the docks? Or could it be an even more sinister figure: The Killer Tarantula?
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula
1998
2.5A 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
3.4An exotic dancer is hired to perform for a wealthy couple on an island. And this takes for a turn for the worse when she is hunted by the couple on the island as the prey and dinner!
Tender Flesh
1997
4.1A pretty American teenager from New Jersey goes on vacation in the south of Spain where she is unknowingly stalked by the vampire.
Vampire Blues
1999
3.3Gina 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
1980s · 29 titles
4.1After 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
5.0A 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
4.5A 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
5.7A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret.
Faceless
1988
4.1A 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
3.8Private eye Al Crosby is paid by millionaire Harry Feldman to take his place at a meeting with Emilio, a gangster. He is drugged and photographed in compromising positions by two hookers, Suzy and Bijou, then he is nearly killed by Mrs. Feldman. Al tries to blackmail Mrs. Feldman, and he is beaten up by three women and forced to tell of Harry's whereabouts, leading to Harry's murder. Al enlists the help of Harry's mistress, Coco, plus Suzy and Bijou whom Al gets out of prison, to expose Mrs Feldman as having inherited money by devious ways and being a brothel owner.
Pick-Up Girls
1981
4.5Al Pereira is hired by Lina, the wife of a wealthy man, to recover some compromising photos. She has sex with him by way of a retainer. In the course of his investigation, Al is obliged to commit a couple of murders... and he's left holding the bag when Lina turns out not to be what she seems to be.
Black Boots, Leather Whip
1983
4.7Melissa is a paralysed woman who is being taken care of by her two sisters. Their father was mysteriously killed when she was still a child. Somehow Melissa got it in her head, that her father is still able to speak to her, and wants her to punish those responsible for his death.
Alone Against Terror
1986
4.6Four strippers take a vacation and wind up at a Spanish resort complex that, despite the hotel receptionist's claims of it being fully booked, appears to be completely empty. After one of the girls mysteriously vanishes and another ends up dead in the pool, both accompanied by the tolling bell from a nearby monastery, Candy and Caty must try to solve the mystery that seems to involve the Spanish Inquisition.
Mansion of the Living Dead
1982
3.7A comedy set mostly on the beach, where countless men are trying to impress various women.
Thong Girls
1987
5.5Jess 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
5.3Two pretty chorus girls, Cecile and Brigitte, who have been sentenced to prison terms, agree to undertake risky undercover work for Senator Conolly in exchange for their freedom. Investigating the disappearance of well-known personalities, as well as young women, Conolly wants the dancers to get hired by a Canary Islands nightclub to keep tabs on the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes...
Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties
1980
3.5A group of adventurers head to a primitive tribe in Africa to find a treasure of diamonds and a beautiful white girl who was lost years ago and was made the tribe's goddess.
Diamonds of Kilimandjaro
1983
3.9After the fall of the Third Reich, all Nazi SS officers ran away in Latin American countries. There they created special laboratories to crate beautiful women for satisfaction of their guards' sexual desires. The main warden in this prison is a cruel woman. Their main plan is to revenge for defeat of Nazi's Germany.
Jailhouse Wardress
1981
3.9Dean, a failed American writer, receives some unexpected news: his wife, who belongs to a wealthy family, has filed for divorce. Stunned, he decides to commit suicide. His initial attempt fails when he has second thought. But during a drunken blackout spent gambling he wins big and promises all the winnings to the man who can kill him...but they must possess a special playing card.
Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985
10.0A couple of female detectives investigates the robbery of a valuable diamond. A comedy directed by Jess Franco.
Girl with the Red Lips
1986
4.1Three students Juanita, Jean and Hans bored with their life in Paris go to Brazil in search of sexual adventures. Las Chicas de Copacabana is a sexual coming age film from maverick filmmaker Jess Franco.
The Girls of the Copacabana
1981
4.5A telepathic nightclub act becomes the backdrop for murder.
Night Has a Thousand Desires
1984
5.1Princess 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
6.0Tsai Chin, the daughter of the infamous Fu Manchu, controls a large empire of vice in her part of the Far East. She decides to kidnap and, through erotic chemical hypnosis, coerce all the members of a fabulously wealthy international rock band to sign over all their possessions to her empire. But an old enemy of Fu Manchu's begins stalking around her operation and threatens to destroy everything she has built.
Slave of Crime
1987
5.7Two newlyweds, Yolanda, an adventurer, and Simón, a young bookworm, travel to Banana Island, where they enjoy the days of wine and roses of their honeymoon until a particularly ridiculous dying man gives them a simple scrap of paper, thus putting into motion a crazy treasure hunt, as fun and erotic as it is dangerous. (Filmed in 1979, lost around January 1980 and found by chance in 2018, in the vaults of the Spanish Film Archive.)
What a Honeymoon
1980
4.4A 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
5.7Adult 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
4.6Eugenie is the capricious daughter of a rich diplomat, living in a seaside resort in Spain. She exhibits her young and splendid body in the beach and night-clubs. She feels an incredible adoration for her father who returns his daughter's passion.
Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie
1980
5.5Desdemona lives on an isolated island with her strange family: her father Mario, her stepmother Dulcinea and her mentally challenged sister Paulova. As the only inhabitants on the island loneliness and desolation engulf all members of her family. Desdemona tries to ward off her boredom by taking long walks along the beach or engaging in acts of self-gratification. She often tries to seduce her own father Mario to engage in acts of a sexual nature. Their daily routine is interrupted by the arrival (by boat) of a robust male stranger who brings friction into Desdemona's family.
The House of Lost Women
1983
6.6Agents across the globe take turns spying on and double-crossing one another in an attempt to locate a valuable formula encrypted in the music code.
Blood on My Shoes
1983
4.9Three couples are having sexual problems until a porn star shows up and teaches them a few lessons.
The Hotel of Love Affairs
1983
NRFor years this Jess Franco film was rumored to be an alternate cut of FURY IN THE TROPICS, but it turns out that this is a completely different women-in-prison film. The plot here takes place mostly outside the prison as two ladies try and reach freedom.
Trapped Women
1987
6.3A plumber rejects many sexual propositions from his clients for the love of his wife. But one day, when he gets home, he finds his wife with another man in bed. From then on, the attitude to his clients will change radically.
El fontanero, su mujer... y otras cosas de meter
1981
1970s · 22 titles
5.6The 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
4.8A 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
4.5A disturbed priest, who witness an occult ritual, thinks the people are possessed and start a private inquisition to exorcise the demons by torturing them to death.
Exorcism
1975
4.5A mute noblewoman's vampiric heritage compels her to drain the life force from all of her lovers.
Female Vampire
1973
4.6Two rich aristocrats lure a virgin to a remote Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism.
Countess Perverse
1975
5.2A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.
The Other Side of the Mirror
1973
4.9Twenty years after seducing a businessman, a demonic temptress lays claim to the man's daughter.
Lorna, the Exorcist
1974
4.2After his wife, a concert pianist, is found murdered a wealthy man is suspected of her murder. But as more suspects begin to pile up this mystery might take its toll on more than one participant.
Tender and Perverse Emmanuelle
1973
5.9A 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
3.8Central 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
4.5No synopsis available yet.
The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
1976
4.1A 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
5.0Sylvia, a stripper, attends a party where the theme is a mock spy adventure. Unfortunately, she soon finds herself thrust in a real espionage adventure. There are these two playboys that invite her to their midnight orgy. Later, her communist rock star lover shows up in her dressing room and starts shouting anti-capitalist rhetoric. In the mean time, her hypochondriac husband keeps loosing money in poker games. And in between, she talks directly into the camera, trying to entertain us.
Midnight Party
1976
4.7Jesus Franco directs and stars in this cut-copy-and-paste-version of one of his own movies. Here, he plays a mad priest going around killing sinful people in the name of God, all while trying to get a book published.
The Sadist of Notre Dame
1979
5.1After the death of Victor Frankenstein, two figures vie for control of his monster and the radical technology that created him: the scientist's daughter, and an immortal wizard assisted by a blind bird-woman with an unquenchable thirst for blood.
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
1973
3.0In medieval France, traveler Pygar tells he-man Karzan (Maciste in the French version) of his recent journey to a place called Antigua, and of its entire community of Amazons promising undreamed of sexual satisfaction to any man who comes upon them. More importantly, Pygar tells of a fortune in gold. Karzan/Maciste, is persuaded to undertake the journey in search of riches, unaware that Pygar is in collusion with the Amazon Queen to actually deliver Maciste as a slave stud to help rejuvenate the race.
The Lustful Amazons
1974
6.6After Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, his bitter and feuding family members gather for a reading of the will, setting into motion an increasingly chilling series of deaths when their arrival is marked by a second grisly killing.
Night of the Skull
1974
4.4Amid the craggy, dusty hills of southern France, a woman screams in the night. Gorgeous Melissa Comfort, a wealthy heiress confined to a wheelchair since birth, cries out in her nightmares, terrified of a dream that comes night after night. In this night terror, she's 10-years-old. Running from a man who may or may not be her father.
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
1973
5.1Martine Bressac is released from a psychiatric clinic after a year's treatment and is driven home by her chauffeur, Mathias. She is welcomed by the demented hunchbacked gardener Malou and the mute servant girl Adèle, and impatiently demands the key to her mysterious private chamber. There, set out like exhibits in a waxwork, are the bodies of beautiful girls frozen in postures of terror on the point of death. With Mathias' help, Martine has just added another girl, a prostitute, to her collection when her husband and accomplice, Charles, arrives home with slides of a further prospective victim: Cécile the virginal daughter of a diplomat...
How to Seduce a Virgin
1974
4.6Maria, 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
5.6A 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
4.4A small-time hood brings the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but things become even more interesting when his moll murders him and is slammed behind bars where she faces all manner of electric shock treatments to various parts of her anatomy
Women Behind Bars
1975
Behind the camera
4.1The 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
3.7A comedy set mostly on the beach, where countless men are trying to impress various women.
Thong Girls
1987
2.6Mados, a Reporter in town for an interview gets more than she bargained for at the Vampire Junction.
Vampire Junction
2001
4.4A 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
3.4A 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
4.0A 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
A short documentary directed by Lina Romay and Jess Franco.
El huésped de la niebla
1982
A short documentary directed by Lina Romay and Jess Franco.
El huésped de la niebla
1982
A short directed by Lina Romay as Rosa Maria Almirall.
Express Train
1982
6.5An adult film parody of the TV show 'Dynasty'.
Phollastía
1987
5.3A 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
7.2Heiress, 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
5.3A 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
7.0Secret agents against spies who hide microfilm up their behinds.
A Crack for Two
1984
7.0Secret agents against spies who hide microfilm up their behinds.
A Crack for Two
1984
4.0Candy 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
6.5Candy's husband seems completely disinterested in satisfying her sexual desires, so she must seek elsewhere for satisfaction.
Entre pitos anda el juego
1986
8.0A 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
Adult movie directed by Jesús Franco.
Un pito para tres
1985
