One of the best thriller movies of the decade is streaming at home now

The film has one of the greatest final scenes in recent memory.

Accessible through the Disney+ service, the film is based on the William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same name, which was previously adapted into another great noir in the 1940s, starring Tyrone Power.

This new version of the story, however, sees Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born) play the charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle, who gets a job working at a travelling carnival in the '40s.

Becoming skilled at performing as a mentalist, Stanton eventually ditches the carnival with his kind wife, Molly (Rooney Mara, Carol), using his newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of New York society.

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As his ambitions grow, he sets out to con a dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water) with the help of a mysterious psychiatrist named Dr Lilith Ritter (Cate Blanchett, Tár).

It's the latter, though, who might wind up being Stanton's "most formidable opponent yet".

Nightmare Alley boasts a large ensemble cast that also includes David Strathairn (The River Wild), Holt McCallany (Mindhunter), Mary Steenburgen (Elf), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Toni Collette (Hereditary) and Willem Dafoe (Nosferatu).

Thanks to its tremendous period production design, its dark and foreboding twist on the notion of the American dream, and its knockout final scene that puts a perfectly twisted bow on everything that came before, the movie was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture.

How to watch Nightmare Alley

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Nightmare Alley is streaming now on Disney+ in Ireland and the UK.