W. Somerset Maugham Movies

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

In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice:...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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....

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

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 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...

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 ruthless story of a loner.

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

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

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...