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.

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...

“Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders" peels back the layers of controversy surrounding the making of the 1980 thriller, "Cruising." Directed by...

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...

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...

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

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

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....

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...

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

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

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

A dialogue about sex, responsibility and HIV, after the (f) act. A confrontational work that analyzes media, intimacy and AIDS in triple critique,...

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

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...

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

Scott is still sleeping with his ex-boyfriend and floundering through life when his mother calls to tell him his older sister Maggie is in the...

Did you think that a blowjob in a shower can’t be artsy? Tone down the colors, add some grain, play a voicemail, and you get Call Me...

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.

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...