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

Synopsis 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 he leaves with them and does not return. They and...

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

Synopsis 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 wondrous civilization of underwater creatures who resemble humans in their...

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

Synopsis 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 family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in...

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Baxter!

1973 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lionel Jeffries

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

Synopsis 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) who lives upstairs and her French boyfriend (Jean Pierre Cassell)....

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Wombling Free

1978 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis 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 as well. This was a film version of the popular...

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Not rated