W. Somerset Maugham Movies

A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.

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

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

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

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

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."

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

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

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...

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

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...

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her...

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

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

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...

Hosny suffers from terrifying nightmares, so he resorts to a psychiatrist to help him

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...

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