a taste of honey (1961)

"You don't look forty. You look a sort of well-preserved sixty."
Salford in the 1960's and Jo (Rita Tushingham) is an shy and awkward teenager, with a promiscuous near alcoholic, domineering mother, Helen (Dora Bryan). Her life changes when she falls pregnant with a black sailors child and has to find an apartment and create her own life for herself, out of her mothers shadow. To help her she hooks up with Geoffrey (Murray Melvin), a shy and lonely gay man, (in a time when to be homosexual was illegal). But their brief taste of happiness is short-lived as Helen butts in and ends their idyll.
Another groundbreaking early 60's drama, with more than a hint of comedy along the way.