Dance with a Stranger

A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.

Dance with a Stranger is a 1985 drama biography movie directed by Mike Newell, starring Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Miranda Richardson. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.6/10 from 3,203 votes and runs 1h 36m.