W. Somerset Maugham Movies

A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British...

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for...

A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s...

Overnight Sensation is a 1984 short film directed by Jon Bloom, based loosely on W. Somerset Maugham's short story "The Colonel's Lady." After...

Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different...

Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.

Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by...

Medical student Philip falls in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her...

Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic,...

Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two...

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

A successful and married, although not quite young, stage actress falls for a young man, who is involved with a young actress who uses him to advance...

A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.

The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.

After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that...

An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.