The link between is that British Social Realist movies draw inspiration from the real world, from common issues that are relevant to the current era. Such as in the 1980's there was alot of racial injustice, as seen in This is England. Also some movies are based on true stories on the news, such as Nil By Mouth, which was about domestic abuse, as seen in this article, a girl moved in with her boyfriend and soon he became agrressive and started slapping her and burning her with lighters. In british social realist movies these are the themes that are shown in the composition, to uncover the real issues that people face day-to-day, giving us a true, "unvarnished" picture.
In british social realist films, the themes are shown in a "gritty" manner, and often makes the audience engage in the film, and interperate it in their own way, and gets the audience to ask questions and create enigma. The themes such as violence make us feel uncomfortabe, they tend to put less content, and keep it very suttle but this has a huge effect on the outcome of the scene; in Nil By Mouth, the horrific scene of the man beating his wife/girlfriend, we do not see her on the floor getting kicked, but only see a midshot of the man kicking her, this engages our imagination of what damage he has caused to her.
I believe that one of the essential themes to a British Social Realist movie is poverty, living in council estate blocks, in a run-down area as from poverty comes all of the other issues in a individuals life, such as drugs and alcohol, from poverty the turn to other things to forget about their problems, and more problems occur, If in a british social realist move the individual was well-off, they wouldn't feel the needs to turn to drug and alcohol abuse; as they may have more social support from the company they have around them, where if the individual is working or below working class, they would be surrounded by people who are a bad influence and humans learn by association, so if they're surrounded by these issues they will be affected by them.
These British Social Realist movies all contain poverty:
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