Charles Lum Movies

A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

In the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught...

It is the story of an average, popular American teenager named Wendy Wu who discovers that in order to win the coveted crown she must first learn the...

A world-weary gay man remembers lost lovers as he swims from the Christopher Street Piers in New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.

The Tongan Ninja is dispatched to the island nation of New Zealand in order to help a brother of his master with his floundering Chinese restaurant....

A tribute to Charles Lum’s life told through his work as a film maker. Featuring Super-8 films Charlie shot as a teenager in the 1970s up to...

GOOD FOR NOTHING is an adventurous romp set in the sweeping Old West from Mike Wallis in his directorial debut. Inspired by the Spaghetti Westerns...

The rise and fall of homegrown gay porn studio Palm Drive Video. An exploration of how a devoted couple helped battle a devastating health crisis by...

The story of the HOIST, London's first and only Gay Fetish Bar, coincides with the political struggle to decriminalize homosexual activity within the...

As an older gay man lies dying in a hospital room, he tries to remember all of his past lovers. Over the years, he had filmed many of his lovers as a...

Two gay men navigate a burgeoning long distance relationship with the help of video calls.

On February 17, 2020, Charles Lum woke up seeing double. A week later his doctor called with news that a “mass” in his brain was HIV...

Based on filmmaker Charles Lum's own experience of going to a gay beach as a young man and almost having sex for the first time.

While cruising for sex, a gay man has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to right some recent political wrongs and make America great again.

An epic saga of sexual melodrama, it’s also a refugee story of persecution and perseverance, with an added dollop of divine luck. Howie gives a...

An afternoon visit to a small city Sex Shoppe yields excitement, surprise and comic relief.

SHOW HARD: short films by Charles Lum & Todd Verow Award winning short documentary and narrative films about gay sex and cruising. including: ...

A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.

In this anthology of shorts, the phrase "Gay Agenda" is reclaimed from the religious right and transformed into a celebration of gay culture. Sit...

AIDS CONFERENCE C***SUCKERS provocatively segues a spontaneous sexual encounter with the myriad activities at this huge and historic conference,...