One of the best thriller movies of the decade is on TV tonight

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

The film is based on the William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same name, which was previously made 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), and uses his newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of New York society.

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.

Holding an 80% Rotten Tomatoes score, Nightmare Alley is airing on TV tonight/this morning on Channel 4 at 12.55am.

It is also currently streaming on Disney+ and will be available to watch on Channel 4's website from Sunday, 5 April.

Here are the other movies airing on TV tonight:

Into the West - TG4 - 7.15pm

Gabriel Byrne and Ellen Barkin star in this beloved Irish '90s magical realist film.

The Mechanic - Film4 - 9pm

Jason Statham is a hitman who takes on an apprentice (Ben Foster) in this very watchable action flick.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - Comedy Central - 9pm

"Groovy, baby!"

For Your Eyes Only - ITV4 - 9pm

Roger Moore's fifth outing as James Bond.

Money Train - Legend - 9pm

After White Men Can't Jump, Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson reunited for this action comedy.

The Arrival - Legend Xtra - 9pm

Charlie Sheen stars in this '90s sci-fi thriller as a radio astronomer who discovers evidence of intelligent alien life and quickly finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy with global consequences.

Anthropoid - RTÉ2 - 9.05pm

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan headline this gripping WWII-set drama based on true events as two agents who plot to kill a high-ranking Nazi official.

The Remains of the Day - TG4 - 9.40pm

Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson star in this period drama as the butler and housekeeper for a doltish lord (James Fox) in 1930s Britain.

A hit adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Remains of the Day was nominated for eight Oscars.

Heat - Film4 - 10.50pm

In Michael Mann’s seminal heist thriller, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro finally shared the screen, albeit briefly.

De Niro plays a professional thief. Pacino plays the cop on his tail. The pair’s charisma, a stacked supporting cast, and incredibly muscular action set pieces make this an all-time classic.

The Outfit - BBC One - 10.50pm

Oscar-winner Mark Rylance is a tailor for the Irish mob in 1950s Chicago in what is one of the best gangster films of recent years.

Prey - Channel 4 - 11pm

It’s a Native American warrior (Amber Midthunder) versus a killer alien hunter in this awesome prequel to the Predator franchise set in early 18th-century America.

You can check out JOE’s review of its recent sequel, Predator: Badlands, right here.

Below - Legend - 11.20pm

This solid 2002 horror is about a US Navy submarine that experiences a series of supernatural events while on patrol in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII.

Crank 2: High Voltage - Legend Xtra - 11.25pm

Jason Statham stars again in one of the craziest action movies ever made.

He plays a hitman who has his heart removed and replaced with a machine that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

The Beasts - BBC Two - 12am

An excellently tense 2022 thriller drama about a French couple living in a small village in Galicia who become embroiled in a feud with their neighbour locals with shocking consequences.