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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family,...

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

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

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...

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