W. Somerset Maugham Movies

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...

Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.

Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different...

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

In Singapore , an English lady kills her lover, a fellow countryman, with a revolver out of jealousy towards a Chinese girl.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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...

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

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...

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...