W. Somerset Maugham Movies

Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. When two lifelong...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Leslie Bennett's extramarital affair with George Nelson spirals out of control when Hammond abandons Leslie for the alluring native woman Li Ti....

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...

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...

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

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

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

A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.

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 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...

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

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