W. Somerset Maugham Movies

A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an...

After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to...

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

An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he...

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her...

An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will...

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

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

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it...

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

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.

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."

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

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

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

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

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

A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for...