W. Somerset Maugham Movies

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

Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must...

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

Harry Willis is a slob and a bacchant. He is therefore abandoned by his wife Maggi.

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...

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...

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."

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

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...

George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and...

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...

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...

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

Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is...

The film sequences were represented by the premiere of the now thought lost short 'Cover To Cover' directed by Paul Rotha. This short film...

A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.

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.

A missionary in the West Indies tries to change the ways of a drunken womanizer.

A ruthless story of a loner.