W. Somerset Maugham Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

This is the German-language version of 1929's "The Sacred Flame", from the W. Somerset Maugham play, shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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