Luis Antonio Ramos

Acting

Luis Antonio Ramos

Born 1973-07-13 · San Germán, Puerto Rico

Luis Antonio Ramos (born July 13, 1973) is an American actor who has been on and starred in various film and television shows. Born in San Germán, Puerto Rico, Ramos was raised in the Bronx, New York. He graduated from the High School of Performing Arts.

Acting credits

Do the Right Thing poster
7.8

Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

Do the Right Thing

1989

Sea of Love poster
6.6

Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

Sea of Love

1989

The Secret of My Success poster
6.5

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.

The Secret of My Success

1987

The Ruins poster
6.0

Americans Amy, Stacy, Jeff and Eric look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle.

The Ruins

2008

Imagining Argentina poster
5.7

Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.

Imagining Argentina

2003

Original Sound poster
NR

A down on his luck aspiring musician gets his big break at the big time when an up and coming singer agrees to collaborate with him after she is caught stealing his song.

Original Sound

2026

M.A.N.T.I.S. poster
5.2

A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N.T.I.S.) that turns him into a superhero and gives him the ability to fight the crime wave that is engulfing his city.

M.A.N.T.I.S.

1994

Scorpion Spring poster
6.7

On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...

Scorpion Spring

1996

You Bury Your Own poster
4.3

A soldier returns home to New York to solve the mystery behind his younger brother's sudden violent death.

You Bury Your Own

2015

The Ministers poster
4.4

A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.

The Ministers

2009

No artwork available
5.3

Centered on true events when Cuban revolution leader Fidel Castro visited New York City and stayed in Harlem in 1960.

Killing Castro

2026

Latin Dragon poster
4.9

In the grand tradition of the lone hero who mysteriously appears in a town desperate for help (think "Shane, "Billy Jack", "James Bond" and "Chinese Connection"), having survived a war and now serving the government as an undercover agent, Danny Silva takes on his biggest foe yet: the street gangs that have taken over his neighborhood. Unwilling to play by the rules set down by the criminals, Silva forgoes the use of guns and decides to battle the thugs with the strength of his fists, spirit and willpower, turning himself into a real-life, modern-day superhero. Packed with pulse pounding, adrenaline-filled action; "Latin Dragon" gives us our first mainstream Latino martial arts action hero.

Latin Dragon

2004

The Return of Superfly poster
5.4

Priest returns to New York from Paris to find his friend's murderer. With a couple of new allies, he attempts to bring the killers to justice while trying not to get into criminal activity like he did years ago.

The Return of Superfly

1990

Sawbones poster
5.0

A former medical intern turned sadistic killer is on the loose... and only one woman knows his true identity. Can she stop him in time before she becomes his next "patient"?

Sawbones

1995

Out-of-Sync poster
4.5

A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss.

Out-of-Sync

1995

No artwork available
NR

The year is 1998. Our story takes place at The Peoples Clothing Company, a clothing store in New York City. We follow stockroom supervisor Joseph Rodriguez, who once wanted to be a stand up comedian. Ten years have gone by and his original dream begins to resurface - and Joseph will now have to make a decision. Will he honor his passion or continue to be a slave to his day job?

The Stockroom

2015

October 22 poster
6.6

A wounded man makes a desperate call, reporting that a gunman is holding a coffee shop hostage and shooting anyone he pleases -- but when the SWAT team shows up, the madman opens fire. Through flashbacks, a waitress serves an array of customers, all of whom are blissfully unaware of how their lives will be horrifically changed.

October 22

1998

For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story poster
6.3

Based on a true story, this drama centers on a mother and father who decide to have another child in hopes of providing a bone-marrow donor for their leukemia-stricken child.

For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story

1993

Nails poster
4.9

The wife of a wild Los Angeles police detective becomes a hostage of the heroin ring he and his partner have exposed.

Nails

1992

Checking Out poster
6.7

A feisty octogenarian on the verge of his ninetieth birthday invites his three grown children to his upcoming birthday celebration with the explicit understanding that when the festivities end, so does his life.

Checking Out

2006

Trouble in the Heights poster
8.0

Near the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, a young Dominican teenager is hunted by a drug kingpin as his older brother must fight for both their survival over the course of a day in their Washington Heights neighborhood of New York.

Trouble in the Heights

2011

No artwork available
4.3

Failed drama series pilot about events at a trauma center run by two doctors struggling to keep the Emergency Room open.

The Knife and Gun Club

1990

Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience poster
NR

Spike Lee and others reflect on this impactful film, more than two decades later.

Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience

2014

Beyond the Rush poster
NR

Shattered by a lifetime of isolation and self loathing due to his mentally ill mother's psychological abuse, a son's obsession to reunite with her leads his life spiraling wildly into an abyss of darkness.

Beyond the Rush

2016