Social Realism Films and Audience's

Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) Tony Richardson/ Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Karel Reisz/ Poor Cow (1969) Ken Loach/ Kes (1969) Ken Loach/ In My Childhood (1972) Bill Douglas/ In My Ain Folk (1973) Bill Douglas/ Pressure (1975) Horace Ove/ My Way Home (1978) Bill Douglas/ Made in Britain (1982) Alan Clarke/ My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Stephen Frears/ Letter to Brezhnev (1985) Chris Bernard/ Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987) Alan Clarke/ High Hopes (1988) Mike Leigh/ Raining Stones (1993) Ken Loach/ Ladybird Ladybird (1994) Ken Loach/ Life is Sweet (1990) Mike Leigh/ Naked (1993) Mike Leigh/ Brassed Off (1996) Mark Herman/ Secrets and Lies (1996) Mike Leigh/ My Son the Fanatic (1997) Udayan Prasad/ The Full Monty (1997) Peter Cattaneo/ Nil by Mouth (1997) Gary Oldman/ Antonia Bird's Face (1997) Antonia Bird/ Twenty Four Seven (1997) Shane Meadows/ My Name is Joe (1998) Ken Loach/ A Room for Romeo Brass (1999) Shane Meadows/ Ratcatcher (1999) Lynne Ramsay/ Carine Adler's Under the Skin (1997) Carine Adler/ Last Resort (2000) Pawel Pawlikoski/ Sweet Sixteen (2002) Ken Loach/ All or Nothing (2002) Mike Leigh/ Morvern Callar (2002) Lynne Ramsay/ This is England (2006) Shane Meadows/ Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) Mike Leigh/ Helen (2008) Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy/ Fish Tank (2009) Andrea Arnold/ Neds (2010) Peter Mullan/ Another Year (2010) Mike Leigh/ The Arbor (2010) Clio Barnard/ Tyrannosaur (2011) Paddy Considine/ The Angel’s Share (2012) Ken Loach.