The best Lina Romay’s crime movies

Lina Romay

Lina Romay

25/06/1954- 15/02/2012
Lina Romay (birth name Rosa María Almirall Martínez, born 23 June 1954 in Barcelona) is a Spanish actress who often appeared in the erotic films directed by her long-time companion, Jesus Franco.

Barbed Wire Dolls

Barbed Wire Dolls
4.5/10
After killing her father who had attempted to rape her, Maria da Guerra is sentenced to prison for life. The wardress is a sadistic lesbian without mercy or humanity. Upon her arrival Maria is taken to a special section for mentally disturbed prisoners where torture and rape are part of the day-to-day reality. One day the Regional Governor arrives, claiming to have received a letter from one of the prisoners describing incredible events in the prison. The writer of the letter was clearly unaware that the Governor is also part of the conspiracy. Carlos Costa, a male nurse pretending to be the prison doctor Moore, falls in love with Maria. After seducing him, Maria kills him with a pair of scissors and escapes with her friends Bertha and the disturbed Rosario, hoping to find safety in the Governor's house, unaware that he will not help them...

Downtown

Downtown
4.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 28/08/1975
  • Character: Cynthia
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!

Midnight Party

Midnight Party
4.4/10
Sylvia, 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.

Fury in the Tropics

Fury in the Tropics
4.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/03/1986
  • Character: Marga
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.

Red Silk

Red Silk
4.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/01/1999
  • Character: Gina
Jess Francos own remake of his 1969 picture "Sadisterotica" aka "Rote Lippen" aka "Der Wolf - Horror pervers".

Women Behind Bars

Women Behind Bars
4.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 01/01/1975
  • Character: Shirley Fields
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

How Much for a Spy?

How Much for a Spy?
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 28/05/1984
  • Character: Ana
A struggling composer named Juan and his bride Ana become targets of spies while on their honeymoon. The spies want to get their hands on Juan’s latest score “Butterfly 2” as they believe that it contains a valuable secret formula.

Night Has a Thousand Desires

Night Has a Thousand Desires
5/10
  • Genre: CrimeHorror
  • Release: 05/03/1984
  • Character: Irina
A telepathic nightclub act becomes the backdrop for murder.

Los blues de la calle Pop (Aventuras de Felipe Malboro, volumen 8)

Los blues de la calle Pop (Aventuras de Felipe Malboro, volumen 8)
6.3/10
Felipe Malboro, a private eye, is contracted by a girl to find her boyfriend who has disappeared.

Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell

Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
3.2/10
Rachel Sheppard is a millionaire’s daughter, kidnapped for ransom and tortured in the weird and wonderful Virtual Hell of Dr Wong. Nelly and her toyboy assistant call on the help of the world’s greatest magician, Johnny Cagliostro.

Slave of Crime

Slave of Crime
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 07/09/1987
  • Character: Tsai Chin
Tsai 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.

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