W. Somerset Maugham

Década de 1920. Walter Fane, é um médico de classe média alta, que é casado com Kitty. Eles se casaram pelos mesmos motivos e logo se mudaram para ...

22 de jun. de 2007

20 de jul. de 1934

Este é uma trama de erros movidos pela vingança situado nos palcos londrinos na década de 30. O sucesso e a fama da diva Julia Lambert (Annette Ben...

03 de set. de 2004

Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis), a esposa do comerciante Robert Crosbie (Herbert Marshall), mata um homem e alega legítima defesa, mas omite que eles ...

25 de jul. de 2005

Um jovem Bem-de-Vida de Chicago, Larry Darrell, rompe seu noivado com Isabel e viaja pelo mundo em busca da iluminação. Acaba encontrando o seu gur...

01 de jan. de 1947

Durante a Segunda Guerra, soldado britânico descobre que uma agência do governo forjou sua morte e trocou seu nome. Agora ele será enviado para uma...

31 de mai. de 1936

Larry Darrell é um jovem americano que vive uma experiência no front da Primeira Guerra que o faz reavaliar a sua vida. Decidido a encontrar respos...

19 de out. de 1984

12 de out. de 1932

Sadie Thompson acaba encalhada em uma ilha e enquanto seu barco está em quarentena, ela consegue agitar o sangue de todos os fuzileiros navais da b...

23 de dez. de 1953

23 de nov. de 1934

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually he...

01 de jul. de 1947

10 de out. de 1936

Em plena Florença de 1938, a viúva britânica Mary Panton (Kristin Scott Thomas) viaja por uma vila italiana, onde se vê envolvida num triângulo amo...

14 de abr. de 2000

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 ...

24 de out. de 1926

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

11 de jun. de 1951

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

27 de out. de 1942

31 de jul. de 1944

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

07 de jan. de 1928

26 de out. de 1948

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

03 de mai. de 1982

17 de mar. de 1929

Jovem estudante de medicina com ambições artísticas se apaixona por uma garçonete, que o abandona e acaba casando com outro homem. Quando ela retor...

23 de set. de 1964

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 fri...

15 de mar. de 1955

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 n...

10 de mai. de 1944

22 de set. de 1925

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: ...

28 de jun. de 1957

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

10 de out. de 1950

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 ma...

17 de mar. de 1933

Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, ...

04 de mar. de 1938

Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce ...

21 de mai. de 1922

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 h...

05 de jul. de 1946

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

03 de abr. de 1940

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

01 de mai. de 1974

24 de fev. de 1955

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

30 de out. de 1959

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

26 de jan. de 1935

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 d...

03 de mai. de 1930

A successful and married, although not quite young, stage actress falls for a young man, who is involved with a young actress who uses him to advan...

08 de jun. de 1962

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 hous...

01 de out. de 1984

In wartime, an English spy must go into neutral territory to murder a fellow-Englishman who has been working for the enemy.

07 de ago. de 1959

After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that ...

12 de jan. de 1925

Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Viola Morgan falls madly in love with professional...

27 de dez. de 1925

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 fo...

12 de ago. de 1936

Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.

09 de dez. de 1917

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.

20 de jan. de 1919

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

24 de nov. de 1929

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 impersonat...

14 de mar. de 1920

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

08 de jul. de 1933

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

27 de nov. de 1926

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 misun...

01 de jan. de 1965

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

28 de jul. de 1987

29 de mar. de 1962

An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.

07 de fev. de 1961

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

17 de ago. de 1929

Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.

15 de out. de 1978

Hosny suffers from terrifying nightmares, so he resorts to a psychiatrist to help him

01 de jan. de 1973

Marooned on a rubber plantation in the East Indies, Leslie turns to Geoffrey for the love and diversion that she does not find with her husband.

08 de jan. de 1931

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 Germa...

02 de mai. de 1931

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

21 de jun. de 1980

Leslie Bennett's extramarital affair with George Nelson spirals out of control when Hammond abandons Leslie for the alluring native woman Li Ti. Fo...

21 de jan. de 1931

A ruthless story of a loner.

25 de jun. de 2016

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written an...