W. Somerset Maugham Movies

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

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

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

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

The great actress Julia Lambert suddenly realizes that she is, alas, getting old. What can help a woman who has absolutely everything? Only new love....

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

Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he...

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

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

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

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...

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."

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

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...

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

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...

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...