Esperanza Roy

Acting

Esperanza Roy

Born

1935-11-22 (90)

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Esperanza Roy Fuentes (Madrid, November 22, 1935) is a Spanish actress and showgirl. In the theater scene, she has combined her work in musicals, with pieces of classical theater. Her film career includes comedies "pop" to dramas like "Vida / Perra" for which she received seven awards for interpretation.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 11 titles

Memorias de Leticia Valle poster
6.4

A fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction and scandal that forced her to leave Spain in the 1910s, based on the 1945 novel "Memoirs of Leticia Valle" by Spanish writer Rosa Chacel.

Memorias de Leticia Valle

1980

Divine Words poster
5.2

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law.

Divine Words

1987

Airlift poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Airlift

1981

Vida/Perra poster
6.0

Vida/Perra is the first feature-length film of Aguirre's "Anticine" and the first monologue in movie history. Aguirre's wife, Esperanza Roy, is the actress of this piece of visual art made as an adaptation of Ángel Vázquez's novel, whose texts are read by Esperanza "as they are." This means, the text have been extracted from the novel without changing their words.

Vida/Perra

1982

La monja alférez poster
6.2

Set in 1592 and based on a true story, a Spanish nun flees the convent and lives an adventurous life disguised as a man.

La monja alférez

1987

El alcalde y la política poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

El alcalde y la política

1980

The Black Wolf poster
5.4

A version of "Zorro" (fox in Spanish) but this time is a wolf... and black, located in California in mid-nineteenth century

The Black Wolf

1981

Tú estás loco Briones poster
5.0

Faustino Briones is a hardline Falangist who, unhappy with the changes in Spain and after mounting several scandals in his work, is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Without waiting for him, he begins to interact with the nuns of the place, but especially with one, Sr. Angustias with whom he is beginning to feel things

Tú estás loco Briones

1981

A la pálida luz de la luna poster
4.2

Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to house of an aristocrat come to less. After meeting several colorful characters, Julio decides to recover Carmen.

A la pálida luz de la luna

1985

La zorra y el escorpión poster
8.0

Adaptation of a play by Alfonso Paso. Overnight, Margarita, a frivolous Baroness, is subject to the whims of his steward dialectic that takes advantage of the absence of the husband of the Baroness. Between Margaret and the butler, by the difference in social class, develop a series of situations which reveal the weaknesses of high society to end naturally between a man and a woman, with the triumph of sentimental

La zorra y el escorpión

1984

Revenge of the Black Wolf poster
5.9

Black Wolf is forced again to fight his rival, who now has been appointed California Governor. Against such power, the lonely 'wolf' fights a duel to the death.

Revenge of the Black Wolf

1981

1970s · 29 titles

Es pecado... pero me gusta poster
4.6

Fabrizzio hired the services of a prostitute to pretend to be his wife and accompany him to spend a weekend in the country house of his friend Romolo, where Aristides Almirante, an important official of the Ministry of Health, has also been invited. the approval of a new medicine of doubtful effectiveness called Fagatín, whose patent Fabrizzio owns.

Es pecado... pero me gusta

1978

The Priest poster
6.0

Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations?

The Priest

1978

¿Por qué pecamos a los 40? poster
5.4

Alejandro Quesada, an eminent doctor successful with women, drives his old friends Federico and Enrique to change their attitude towards life. The death of a common friend, Luis, reaffirmed in the attempt to enjoy their existence and seek the association of younger women than their wives.

¿Por qué pecamos a los 40?

1970

Attack of the Blind Dead poster
5.8

Nearly a half-millenium after they were blinded and executed for committing human sacrifices, a band of Templar knights returns from the grave to terrorize a rural Portuguese village during its centennial celebration. A small group of people take refuge in a deserted cathedral and must find a way to escape from the creatures.

Attack of the Blind Dead

1973

A Candle for the Devil poster
5.7

Two sisters running a small hotel in Spain kill female tourists whose morals do not meet their strict religious standards.

A Candle for the Devil

1973

El libro de buen amor II poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

El libro de buen amor II

1976

X312 - Flight to Hell poster
4.5

A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Among the passengers are a corrupt banker who is smuggling diamonds out of the country, a reporter, a mysterious beauty and a shady flight attendant. The survivors find themselves up against not only the dangers of the jungle itself but a band of headhunters and a gang of revolutionaries who are looking for the smuggled diamonds.

X312 - Flight to Hell

1971

Guapo heredero busca esposa poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Guapo heredero busca esposa

1972

The Garden of Delights poster
6.1

The greedy relatives of a paralysed 45-year-old amnesiac millionaire go to extreme lengths to help him recover his memory.

The Garden of Delights

1970

Las señoritas de mala compañía poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las señoritas de mala compañía

1973

Ellas los prefieren... locas poster
5.2

An executive who depends on his wife's fortune has a great weakness for women. One day, his chauffeur discovers the flat where he has his mistress, a painter who has him totally idealized as reflected in her paintings. But this straight man ends up, by circumstances of life, paired with a homosexual.

Ellas los prefieren... locas

1976

Tigre poster
5.8

Boy adopts an orphaned mountain lion and they grow up together. Fifteen years later, local farmers decid theey don't like having that critter around their livestock, and things go south real fast.

Tigre

1979

Cunning Young Vixen in a Bikini poster
4.6

A convict is released and is mobbed by "Zorrita", an adventurer, accompanied by her close friend Barbara and a young millionaire, loaded with jewels and kilos. The convict is subject to the maximum erotic attacks, as they intend to involve him in the theft of the jewelry that a marquis of small stature keeps in a safe.

Cunning Young Vixen in a Bikini

1976

Blanca por fuera y Rosa por dentro poster
5.0

Blanca and Ramiro are a married couple who are always arguing just for pleasure; but Blanca suddenly suffers a misfortune and everything changes.

Blanca por fuera y Rosa por dentro

1971

A Chaste Spanish Man poster
5.5

Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising news: a woman, in fact his real mother, leaves him with a brothel in England.

A Chaste Spanish Man

1973

¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ') poster
2.8

No synopsis available yet.

¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ')

1979

My Wife's Boyfriends poster
3.2

Emilio Antunez and his wife Charo, come to La Molina, willing to spend a few happy days of vacation. Charo, foreseeing that she will meet with important people, brings an assorted and elegant wardrobe, which is soon able to wear when she meets with Aurora, an old school friend who is married to the eccentric millionaire Taboada.

My Wife's Boyfriends

1972

Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar

1974

The Seven Lives of the Cat poster
4.7

Guillermo's family has been living for years a terrible curse. All the women in his family have died because of love and murdered by men of the clan. The funny thing is that before each death a cat appeared. One day, while Guillermo prepares the papers for his marriage with Beatriz, he discovers that both are distant relatives.

The Seven Lives of the Cat

1971

El insólito embarazo de los Martínez poster
6.0

One man becomes each day more and more fat. The exercise does not help him. Finally he goes to the doctor that finds out his problem: he is pregnant.

El insólito embarazo de los Martínez

1974

My Son is Not What He Seems poster
7.0

Love, music and entanglements: a showgirl tries luck in tragedy, but she will be surprised by the arrival of her son from Bombay, with ideas very different from those of Spain; while the successor of this one - and neighbor - gains a plus doing "favors" to the gentle admirers.

My Son is Not What He Seems

1974

El sobre verde poster
8.0

In the Apollo Theater during the performance of "green envelope", a child is born, son of the actress who plays the goddess of Fortune. His father calls him Fortunato as he believes that he will have a privileged life. But unfortunately, the opposite happens.

El sobre verde

1971

Ligeramente viudas poster
6.5

Leonor and Engracia suddenly become widows, but both will take their new social situation in different ways. When they meet Jose Luis and Eugenio, all the plans made will change with the intention of reaching the altar.

Ligeramente viudas

1975

Caperucita y Roja poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Caperucita y Roja

1977

Secuestro a la española poster
10.0

In full tourist season in Torremolinos, three crooks steal tourists in order to support their families. But however they are presented with the opportunity to make a big hit and will try to do it, not without many problems.

Secuestro a la española

1972

El cronicón poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El cronicón

1970

Battered Flesh poster
3.4

Berta, imprisoned in Franco's Spain on fraud charges, learns to navigate the indignities of prison, spreading her own brand of kindness and empathy to the other inmates, but she unwillingly learns a valuable lesson when she falls in love with one of them.

Battered Flesh

1978

Una mujer prohibida poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una mujer prohibida

1974

Compañero de viaje poster
7.0

A tale of hate in a town in the Venezuelan Andes where the conflicts and passions of those who live enclosed in the mountains make violence an inevitable destiny.

Compañero de viaje

1979

1960s · 11 titles

¿Qué hacemos con los hijos? poster
6.2

The driver Antonio, boasts of his sons: John, who shares his work as a taxi driver, Luisa, ladies hairdresser, Antonito, studying to be a lawyer, and Paloma, to be a housewife. But Antonio does not know that their children are not exactly as he thinks. The day Antonio finds out, confronts his wife and children and suffers a big disappointment. Since then no one in the family speaks to Antonio, and he believes that it is best to let them see for themselves that they made a mistake, but this does not result, since each will see their problems increased.

¿Qué hacemos con los hijos?

1967

A Witch Without a Broom poster
5.3

A flirtatious sorcerous fancies a handsome human professor. Cross time antics arise when she attempts to bring the hapless professor into her alternate dimension.

A Witch Without a Broom

1967

Furnished Studio 2.P. poster
4.3

Two bank employees use a computer to determine the girls for their sexual affairs in their newly hired flat.

Furnished Studio 2.P.

1969

Destino: Barajas poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Destino: Barajas

1965

Pecados conyugales poster
6.5

Film consisting of three episodes. The first, "Doubt": Sofia, early summer, young and beautiful, always choose a dog that matches their outfits and a lover that matches them. It is up to Ricardo, a playboy who is not known for their intelligence. The second, "Ambition" Amparo and Vincent are married. She is ambitious and wants her husband to be important and famous. To discover a process that infallible: that her husband will be burnt in the street bonzo. The third, "Jealousy" Manolo and Eulogio are friends and colleagues. For certain indications Eulogio think your wife is cheating on him with Gregory and advised by Manolo, he decides to wash his honor.

Pecados conyugales

1969

El cálido verano del señor Rodríguez poster
6.5

Pepe Rodríguez, an office worker who has been working while his family went on vacation, leaves Madrid to join them in the countryside.

El cálido verano del señor Rodríguez

1965

Smashing Up poster
7.0

Matilde is a former prostitute who gets married to an american soldier with an uncertain future, due to the possibility of being recruited to the Vietnam War.

Smashing Up

1968

Relevo para un pistolero poster
6.3

A stranger from Boston offers a notorious Arizona outlaw a job he can’t refuse.

Relevo para un pistolero

1964

Why Does Your Husband Deceive You? poster
3.8

Eduardo, a man about to get married to his lifelong sweetheart, begins having second thoughts about the step he is going to take. His future wife is not one-of-a-kind and, among the wedding guests, there are several women he would not mind spending the rest of his days with. So, while the ceremony carries on, he fantasizes about the lifestyle he could experience with some of them.

Why Does Your Husband Deceive You?

1969

Dos chicas locas locas poster
6.2

A millionaire leaves all his fortune to his older granddaughter. But his two granddaughters are twins and nobody knows who's the older one is.

Dos chicas locas locas

1965

The Girl of the Nile poster
7.5

Adventurers endeavor to find a tomb that houses a legendary diamond.

The Girl of the Nile

1969

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