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Matrix of Social Realism Themes and Issues
By Jack Woods
Poor Cow (1967)
• Writers-Nell DunnKen Loach• Director-Ken Loach• Producer-Joseph Janni
A Women makes a lot of bad decisions in her life, she then loses her son. She then gets a brief grip on reality.
Theme:Love
Issues:Domestic ViolenceChildcareMoral Responsibility
Kes (1969)
• Writer(s)-Barry HinesKen Loach• Director-Ken Loach• Producer-• Tony Garnett
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
Theme:FriendshipLove
Issues:Lack of love Abuse Bullying
Pressure (1975)
• Writer(s)-Horace OveSamuel Selvon• Director-Horace Ove• Producer-Robert Buckler
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Themes:Cultural Differences
Issues:ImmigrationCultural Clashes
My Way Home (1978)
• Writer-Bill Douglas• Director-Bill DouglasProducer-Judy Cottam Richard Craven
The young Hungarian protagonist wanders through the Russian-occupied Hungary of the final months of WWII, suffering a pointedly arbitrary round of arrests.
Themes:War
Issues:War Desertion War Crimes
Made in Britain (1982)
• Writer-David Leland• Director-Alan Clarke• Producer-Margaret Matheson
A skin head youth rebels against the conventions of society, when his social worker and carers working in a detention center, try to get him to conform.
Themes:Cultural Differences
Issues:RacismViolence
High Hopes (1988)
• Writer-Mike Leigh• Director-Mike Leigh• Producer-Simon Channing WilliamsVictor Glynn
What happens in the life of an ordinary person.
Themes:Friendship
Issues:Class conflict Culture clashesSocial mobility
The Full Monty (1997)
• Writers-Simon Beaufoy• Director-Peter Cattaneo• Producers-Uberto Pasolini
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty“.
Themes:Friendship
Issues:Unemployment
Nil by Mouth (1997)
• Writer-Gary Oldman• Director-Gary Oldman• Producer-Gary OldmanDouglas Urbanski
A Working class family in London are in a cycle of Domestic Violence and drug abuse.
Themes:LoveViolence
Issues:Domestic ViolenceDrug Abuse
Last Resort (2000)
• Writer(s)-Rowan JoffePawel Pawlikowski• Director-Pawel Pawlikowski• Producer-Ruth Caleb
A Russian women wants political asylum in England when her fiancé fails to pick her up from the airport.
Themes:LoveDehumanization
Issues:Immigration
This is England(2006)
• Writer-Shane Meadows• Director-Shane Meadows• Producer-Mark Herbert
A kid has a fight with some skin heads after a fight with them, he them becomes close friends with them. Based on Shane Meadows experiences.
Themes:Hate
Issues: RacismGang cultureViolence
Fish Tank (2009)
• Writer-Andrea Arnold• Director-Andrea Arnold• Producer-Nick LawsKees Kasander
Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Themes:Family Love
Issues:Violence
Tyrannosaur(2011)
• Writer-Paddy Considine• Director-Paddy Considine• Producer-Diarmid Scrimshaw
Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.
Themes:HateLove
Issues:ViolenceCharity
The Angel’s Share (2012)
• Writer-Paul Laverty • Director-Ken Loach• Producer-Rebecca O'Brien
Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
Themes:RedemptionLove
Issues:Alcohol abuseDomestic Wellbeing