W. Somerset Maugham Movies

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

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

This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late...

Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin...

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

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

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British...

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

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 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...

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

Based on the 1907 play 'Lady Frederick' by W. Somerset Maugham, this tells the story of Betsy O'Hara in her pursuit of romance and love.

Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by...

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

After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that...

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