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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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...

Jack Straw (Warwick) is an iceman who becomes a waiter to be closer to the girl (McComas) he is interested in. Later, to impress her, he impersonates...

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...

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

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

This is the German-language version of 1929's "The Sacred Flame", from the W. Somerset Maugham play, shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a...

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

An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and...

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

Stella and Sid, seaside dancers, perform a dangerous circus act. After a conversation with an old entertainer, Stella is afraid to jump, requiring a...