W. Somerset Maugham Movies

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

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

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

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...

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

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

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

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:...

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family,...

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 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...

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

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

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a...

A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she...

A missionary in the West Indies tries to change the ways of a drunken womanizer.

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

In wartime, an English spy must go into neutral territory to murder a fellow-Englishman who has been working for the enemy.

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...

Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must...