W. Somerset Maugham Movies

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

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

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...

A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.

A lawyer defends a wealthy woman accused of murder. She claims it was self-defense. The lawyer is not sure.

Sheppey, an ordinary working-class waiter, wins a fortune in a sweep-stake, and elects to use the money to help the unfortunate.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Medical student Philip Carey becomes involved with flirtatious waitress Mildred Rogers. Their love affair is interrupted when Philip is made aware of...

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

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 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...

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