Direction: Lionel Jeffries

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Lionel Jeffries. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Railway Children

1970 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lionel Jeffries

Cast Dinah Sheridan · Bernard Cribbins · William Mervyn · Iain Cuthbertson

Plot The film opens in a happy, comfortable upper middle-class home in Victorian London. One night the three children see their father usher two strangers into his study. After an argument...

6.3

44 votes

6.3

44 votes

The Water Babies

1978 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lionel Jeffries

Cast James Mason · Bernard Cribbins · Billie Whitelaw · Joan Greenwood

Plot When a 12-year-old chimney sweep is wrongfully blamed for being a thief, he makes a run for it, and lands head-first into a pool of water. There he encounters a...

6.0

62 votes

6.0

62 votes

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

1972 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lionel Jeffries

Cast Laurence Naismith · Lynne Frederick · Garry Miller · Rosalyn Landor

Plot A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The...

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Baxter!

1973 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lionel Jeffries

Cast Scott Jacoby · Lynn Carlin · Patricia Neal · Britt Ekland

Plot The plot centers around a preteen boy with a speech impediment who goes to live with his abusive mother in England. He makes friends with the beautiful model (Britt Eklund)...

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Not rated

Wombling Free

1978 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lionel Jeffries

Plot The adventures of The Wombles, strange creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and pick up the litter left by the humans. There's always time for a nice song and dance...

Not rated

Not rated