All 10 Best Jenny Agutter Movies Ranked (Best to Worst)

Nicolas Roeg’s hypnotic survival poem abandons conventional narrative structure for a tactile, disorienting clash between rigid European civilization and the unforgiving Australian Outback. Through fragmented editing, dazzling saturated imagery, and John Barry’s haunting score, the film turns two stranded siblings’ journey into an unsparing study of communication breakdown and cultural displacement. At the center of this sun-scorched waking dream, Agutter delivers a performance of uncompromising naturalism and quiet terror. Shedding the innocent skin of her earlier child roles, she captures the rigid modesty, rising sensual awakening, and psychological fracture of an adolescent forced into existential isolation, grounding Roeg’s visual experimentation with unforgettable emotional weight.

John Landis struck rare cinematic gold by colliding genuine visceral dread with deadpan transatlantic comedy in this definitive creature feature. Rick Baker’s revolutionary, bone-stretching practical transformation effects set a new benchmark for horror, while the fog-drenched Yorkshire moors and moody London backstreets establish a genuinely ominous atmosphere. Providing the beating emotional heart amidst the lycanthropic slaughter, Agutter plays Nurse Alex Price with exceptional warmth and grounded maturity. Her romance with David Naughton sidesteps horror heroine clichés; she portrays a practical, deeply compassionate woman whose domestic sanctuary offers tragic respite, giving the story’s gruesome downward spiral its devastating dramatic stakes.

Lionel Jeffries’ adaptation of E. Nesbit’s classic novel is British family cinema at its purest, balancing rural romance with underlying class tension and heartbreak. When an affluent London family is abruptly uprooted to a modest Yorkshire cottage following their father's wrongful arrest, the film chronicles their daily resilience and community solidarity with genuine affection. As the eldest sibling, Roberta, Agutter crafts an enduring portrait of adolescent responsibility, loyalty, and burgeoning maturity. Her performance balances childlike wonder with sharp, protective instincts—culminating in the unforgettable railway platform reunion that solidified her status as one of British cinema’s most radiant screen presences.

Sidney Lumet’s intense adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s stage play plunges into religious fanaticism, sexual repression, and the violent clash between clinical reason and Dionysian passion. Richard Burton commands the screen as a tormented psychiatrist unraveling why a disturbed stable boy blinded six horses, filming with stark theatricality and searing psychological scrutiny. Agutter won a BAFTA for her fearless portrayal of Jill Mason, the self-possessed stable girl whose seduction inadvertently triggers the central catastrophe. She infuses the character with breezy sensuality and effortless poise, never reducing Jill to a mere catalyst but instead revealing a complex, modern young woman caught in an unfathomable web of madness.

Michael Anderson’s mid-seventies dystopian vision imagines a hedonistic, domed city where pleasure is mandatory and life strictly terminates at age thirty. Armed with glittering retro-futurist production design, miniature model work, and Jerry Goldsmith’s pioneering electronic-orchestral score, the film remains an inventive critique of youth-obsessed consumer culture and authoritarian control. Agutter stars as Jessica 6, the defiant dissident who shepherds Logan toward truth and rebellion outside the geodesic dome. Radiating quiet defiance and athletic conviction, she cuts through the camp spectacle with grounded emotional sincerity, transforming what could have been a stock sci-fi companion into an intelligent, empathetic heroine.

Sam Garbarski’s bittersweet drama handles an outrageous premise with surprising delicacy, charting a desperate grandmother who turns to sex work in Soho to fund medical treatment for her dying grandson. While Marianne Faithfull anchors the film with melancholic world-weariness, the script smartly examines the stifling hypocrisies, bourgeois snobbery, and isolation of suburban middle-class England. Agutter excels in a vital supporting turn as Jane, the protagonist's judgmental peer whose petty moralizing exemplifies community cruelty. Without lapsing into caricature, she captures the passive-aggressive chill and performative politeness of suburban domesticity, acting as the ideal cold counterweight to Faithfull’s raw, unconventional sacrifices.

David Greene’s overlooked psychological thriller captures late-sixties London at a pivotal crossroads, shifting from pastoral childhood innocence to bleak suburban dread. The narrative follows a dreamy fourteen-year-old schoolgirl who develops a fixation on her older foster brother, slowly suspecting he might be the serial predator terrorizing their neighborhood. Agutter is nothing short of magnetic as Wynne, charting the blurry borderland between adolescent romantic delusions and creeping horror. Carrying almost every scene, she conveys the desperate rationalizations of first love colliding with cold reality, crafting a deeply perceptive, authentic character study that bridges her juvenile roles and adult dramatic maturity.

John Sturges directs this late-career WWII commando thriller with old-school efficiency, following a disguised German paratrooper unit sent to kidnap Winston Churchill from an English village. Bolstered by a stacked international cast including Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, and Robert Duvall, the film delivers taut suspense, moral ambiguity, and sudden bursts of violent action. Agutter appears as Molly Prior, a spirited local girl whose romantic entanglement with Sutherland’s undercover operative brings tragic intimacy to the high-stakes espionage. Though the narrative leans heavily on pulp pacing, she injects genuine heat, regional grit, and heartbreak into an otherwise male-dominated military exercise.

John Lafia’s energetic horror sequel dispenses with the psychological ambiguity of the original, leaning unashamedly into vibrant color palettes, mean-spirited humor, and elaborate animatronic carnage. Following the killer doll’s relentless pursuit of young Andy Barclay to his new suburban foster home, the film thrives on frantic pacing and an inventive climax set inside a surreal Good Guy doll assembly factory. Agutter steps into the genre as foster mother Joanne Simpson, lending unexpected dignity and protective warmth to a straightforward horror framework. Though her character meets a grim fate, she plays the domestic tension with straight-faced conviction, elevating the human stakes before the mayhem erupts.

Morgan Matthews’ generational follow-up shifts the action to the Second World War, tracking evacuee children sent from Salford to Oakworth who discover a young African American soldier hiding in a railyard. The film operates primarily as warm, handsome comfort food, balancing nostalgic nods to the 1970 classic with contemporary explorations of wartime civil rights and empathy. Agutter reprises her career-defining role as Roberta, now an elder matriarch and village anchor. While the script operates on predictable sentimentality, her presence brings palpable continuity and gentle authority, offering longtime admirers a cozy, affectionate bookend to her most celebrated family franchise.