Lina Romay
Date of Birth: 25 Jun 1954
Country: Spain
Total Credits at Criticker: 69 (Actor), 1 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse. (imdb)
During World War II, a small German squadron was assigned the task of carrying a shipment of Nazi gold across the African desert. Along the way, the squadron was ambushed by the Allies, and only one American soldier, Robert, survived. Years later, Robert tells his story to a German treasure hunter named Kurt, who promptly murders him... (imdb)
Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately "checks" in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile Ilsa and one of the guards are forcing the inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling it as pornoflicks. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
A 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. (imdb)
A man who lost an arm and his family to a tribe of cannibals returns ten years later to bring back his teenager daughter, only to find that she grew up into a beautiful blonde woman who became the cannibals' queen. (imdb)
The businessman Patrick takes his wife Marianne and daughter Linda on a vacation. Patrick's old friend Lorna shows up just in time for Linda's 18th birthday and takes demonic, sexual possession of the girl's body and soul. (imdb)
Horror mystery about the residents of a Louisiana castle who are being murdered by a masked killer. When the family arrives for the reading of Marion's will, his wife is strapped to the face of a cliff and drowned by the tide. More murders follow, and as Inspector Bore (Vicente Roca) investigates, he discovers some dark secrets in the family's past.
A reporter goes off to research an 87-year-old woman who was believed to be a "snake woman". When the reporter arrives she finds the woman to look much younger and soon the "snake woman" gets the reporter involved in lesbian sex and a whole lot more. (imdb)
Incubus (2002) - Direct-to-Video
Twenty years earlier a father made a deal with an incubus that she gives his fame and wealth in return for his daughter on her 20th birthday. (imdb)
Blind Target is the story of a young woman who emigrated from the poor tiny Latin American country of San Hermoso only to strike it rich and famous as an author in the United States. When she returns to her homeland to promote her novel "Desperate Letters" - a thinly veiled expose of her native land's political corruption - she is in for a welcome that she could not have imagined in her worst nightmares. (imdb)
"Helter Skelter" is a mean-spirited film filled with cruel, desperate, yet strangely sympathetic characters, and Franco weaves this tapestry of sadoerotic perversion together as no one else can (or will). (imdb)
From Sumatra to Macau the evil of the sinister genius Dr. Wong - Dr. James Wong - laid waste to the Occidental police forces of Hong Kong and mainland China. Wong and his cruel daughter, Tsai Ming, rose to malevolent rule by kidnapping and ransoming the daughters of society's rich and famous. Howard Vernon's screen time consists of stock shots from Maldición de Frankenstein (1972), with the actor's voice being re-dubbed by a digital voice combination of Jesus Franco and Collins (producer). (imdb)
In "Broken Dolls" Franco has his characters populating a one-time island paradise that is being slowly decayed by encroaching civilization (personified rather simply as approaching oil tankers). The island's clan is headed by doddy old Don Martin (Paul Lapidus in a wonderful performance) who once was a vaudeville performer and who may or may not have buried a treasure somewhere on the island. (imdb)
Red Silk (1999) - Direct-to-Video
Nina carries a number of weapons - not one of them is concealed! (tagline)
Vampire Blues (1999) - Direct-to-Video
An American teenage girl vacations in the south of Spain while the vampire Countess Irina von Murnau stalks her every move. Irina wishes to seduce the girl into the dark side of vampirism, but with a little help from Marga--a gypsy fortune teller--Irina may be in store for a good staking! (killerreviews.com)
A stripper and her sleazy boyfriend are invited by a wealthy woman and her lover to join them on her private island for a weekend of sex games in exchange for a large fee. When the couple gets there, however, they are captured, then let loose on the island to be hunted down and killed. (imdb)
When two people have disappeared, the mysterious Tarantula is suspected. (imdb)
Lust for Frankenstein (1998) - Direct-to-Video
Softcore take on the famous story has Moira Frankenstein (Lina Romay) seeing a vision of her dead father and bringing back his creature (Michelle Bauer). (imdb)
A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Central American country of Puerto Santo. (imdb)
In Puerto Rico, a down-on-his-luck private detective is hired by a woman to take compromising photos of her husband, a notorious nightclub owner. After he finishes the job, he finds himself hauled in by the police, who inform him that the nightclub owner has been murdered--and that he is the prime suspect. (imdb)
A 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. (imdb)
Flores de perversión (2005) - Direct-to-Video
In "Perversion", the great Lina Romay heads a cult of sadistic lesbian prostitutes who live for the destruction of men and any woman who dares fall "victim" to a man. (imdb)
Scarlet (Lina Romay) escapes of the claws of her violent fiance and takes refuge in a barn...
Directed by Jesus Franco, godfather of exploitation, and his wife Lina Romay who appears in most of his films.
Made during director Jess Franco's amazing early 70's period, post Harry Alan Towers and pre-porno, The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein is a surrealist masterpiece, poetic, perverse, comic, and mesmerizing. Shot for next to nothing on location in Portugal, the film is full of evocative, wide-angle, hand held imagery that must have appeared jaw-droppingly innovative at the time, and still astounds today. (imdb)
In medieval France, traveler Pygar tells he-man Karzan (Maciste in 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 to help rejuvenate the race. (imdb)
According to legend, a group of women escaped from Atlantis just before the destruction of the continent. They took refuge on a mysterious island, and founded a kingdom. Men who dared approach the island, were devoured by these sexually voracious Atlanteans, and thus they were called "gobblers". (imdb)
A woman suffers a breakdown after the suicide of her sister. Soon after the suicide, the sister begins to see her dead sister inside a mirror, which causes her to go out and bring men home before killing them. (imdb)
A corrupt scientist sees his plans always fail. A parody of the myth of the mad scientist, in which the positive madness fails the lack of technical quality hide. Jesús Franco except that the producer of this film, the protagonists say, and the assembly provides, he is also the creator of the scenario, music and direction
A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape. (imdb)
A remake of Franco's LA MUERTE SILBA UN BLUES (aka 007 Opération Jamaïque), shot in the sixties, this one has a stunning cast composed of Jesus' regulars. (imdb)
Basically an unattributed remake of The Most Dangerous Game with nudity and hardcore inserts. (imdb)
Part of Franco's short-lived collaboration with french producer Robert de Nesle, the Comptoir Français du Film's boss, this comedic gem is about a bored count who likes to hunt down pretty women, disguised as a servant. A lot of misadventures happen to him, and the one-liners fall like a golden rain, revealing once more how much Jesus Franco is a talented dialoguist. Olivier Mathot plays a moustached bandit, and Lina Romay is, as always, the seductress. (imdb)
A woman in desperate need of work goes to a remote Greek Island to care for a man. The man warns her that his two daughters, one a nymphomaniac and the other a cripple, are both dangerous. Soon the nympho is seducing the woman as well as others in the house. (imdb)
We all the know the Jess Franco template for this mid-period run of his films: plenty of nudity, over use of Lina Romay (who must always be nude), re-used vaguely tropical sets and an element of blatant sexploitation. (imdb)
Strange tale of a dancer (Lina Romay) who leaves her husband and rock star boyfriend at home when two playboys invite her to a midnight party. Once at the party she has a threesome with a couple and then wakes up the next morning to find both of them dead in bed with a knife in their back. Soon Romay finds herself kidnapped and on a strange voyage where she keeps showing up at various locations. (imdb)
This rarely-seen film from cult director Jesus Franco (under the pseudonym "Clifford Brown") stars Lina Romay and Monique Delaunay as Pina and Tina, who travel to Istanbul to sell some stolen diamonds. A pair of police officers follow them, saving them from an unscrupulous fence named Kashfi (Guy Peraud) and the evil doctor Radeck. (All Movie Guide)
Opens with a naked and bloody couple dead on the floor. The police arrive, and we see a naked Lina Romay running upstairs to hide. It's already pretty obvious that we have just started another of Uncle Jess Franco's films. (scoopy.com)
The plot revolves around a Vegas dancer named Cynthia (Lina Romay) who is seduced by a pair of aliens, Alpha (Evelyne Deher) and Andros (Ramon Ardid). While making love to her, they smear a shiny ointment on Cynthia's privates, which not only puts her under their telepathic control, but poisons anyone whom she beds (All Movie Guide)
Paula-Paula: An Audiovisual Experience (2010) - Direct-to-Video
"Paula-Paula" is a sexy show performed by two dancers at the Flamingo's Club in Antofagasta. Alma Pereira investigates a crime at the club involving Paula and Paula. Who can resolve this crime of passion? (paula-paula.com)
A young jazz-composer turns vengeful commando against local drug Mafia Capos when his wife is killed at the hands of Caribbean drug dealers. (film.com)
Four wanton waitresses including Eva Leon of HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN Mamie Kaplan of LILLIAN THE PERVERTED VIRGIN and the legendary Lina Romay (billed here as Candy Coster ) of BARBED WIRE DOLLS arrive for vacation in the Canary Islands where they soon indulge their hungers for masturbation lesbian lust bondage and beyond.
A sleazy private investigator teams up with a couple of Spanish hookers to unravel a web of murder and blackmail involving a rich family.
A pair of strippers are recruited by the government to spy on a nightclub and a house suspected of being used as part of a white slavery operation. Celebrities are being kidnapped, hypnotized and sold as playthings to rich perverts.
Film about a woman (Lina Romay) returning home from an insane asylum only to discover her husband is now living with a man. The two men eventually find a nun (Susan Hemmingway) who's been raped and the three come up with a plot to kill the wife for her money.
A Medical student visits his old college professor only to find the him insane. The professor explains how he has been able to keep his daughter young with blood transfusions from unwilling doners for years.
A swarthy gang of sex-crazed criminals, made up of two guys, two girls and Ajita Wilson, kidnap a beautiful young heiress in this Spanish sexploitation flick that is so sleazy it would probably make Jess Franco blush. The heiress happens to be a virgin and this fact excites everyone in the gang particularly one guy who gropes the girls crotch while she is unconscious. (grindhousedatabase.com)
A Man (Mayans) invites a Woman (Romay) to his house to live with him, just before the arrival of his wife (Vela) who is coming back from the insane asylum. (imdb)
Bizarre comedy from Jess, the story revolves around a stage show that has aliens kidnapping Earth women and making them pregnant so that they can give birth to 600 babies an hour! However some real aliens see the show and decide that it's all a very good idea (wxjuh)
Eugenie 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. Franco impressively delivers themes of eroticism, violence, sadism and nihilism (imdb).
Private detective Alfredo Pereira is hired by eccentric couple Raden and Eve to find their missing sister, Adriana. Despite his limitations, Pereira soon finds the woman, but foreplay between characters complicates things. (imdb)
A sheriff covers up a man's murder in a small island occupied by two sisters. A local thug starts sexually assaulting one of the sisters, despite having a loving girlfriend, which triggers a violent sequence of events (imdb).
The story begins with Lina in school uniform, fondled by another student. When the guard catches them, she spanks Lina on her naked bottom and then makes love with the other one. A handsome stranger, Emilio Linder, comes to the rescue, offering her a hot bath, dinner and a warm bed (imdb).
Three students Juanita, Jean and Hans bored with their life in Paris go to Brazil in search of sexual adventures. (imdb)
Lina and her dorky new husband are on their honeymoon at a Spanish resort and unfortunately pick up two hitchhikers, who are really spies that hide secret microfilm in their car. (imdb)
Desdemona is a pensive young nymphomaniac whose life on a remote island with her father, stepmother and mentally-challenged sister seethes with violence and incest. (imdb)
Al Pereira is hired by a married woman to retrieve compromising photos .
An ex-priest escapes from an asylum and kills people in God's name. This is a re-edited Spanish-language version of L'éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975) and Sexorcismes (1975) with newly shot scenes.