W. Somerset Maugham Movies

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

An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

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

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...

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it...

A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

An atmospheric British omnibus film presenting three tales of murder and the supernatural. In “In the Picture,” a museum attendant is...

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

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

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

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

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

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