W. Somerset Maugham Movies

Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.

This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late...

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.

Based on the 1907 play 'Lady Frederick' by W. Somerset Maugham, this tells the story of Betsy O'Hara in her pursuit of romance and love.

Charles Battle has been 'hammered' in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted.

In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice:...

A lawyer defends a wealthy woman accused of murder. She claims it was self-defense. The lawyer is not sure.

In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a...

Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Viola Morgan falls madly in love with professional...

A ruthless story of a loner.

After her husband’s death, a woman struggles to raise her only son. Later, he becomes a famous surgeon and gets married to a wealthy girl but...

An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and...

George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and...

Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce...

Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he...

Jack Straw (Warwick) is an iceman who becomes a waiter to be closer to the girl (McComas) he is interested in. Later, to impress her, he impersonates...

Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is...

A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financial woes.