A classic, mind-bending thriller movie is on TV tonight

It marked Christopher Nolan's breakthrough to the big leagues

Released 25 years ago, its non-linear story centers on Guy Pearce's insurance investigator Leonard Shelby, who's attempting to track down his wife's killer while contending with anterograde amnesia (causing short-term memory loss).

Memento, which is based on Nolan's brother Jonathan's short story 'Memento Mori', also stars Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix), Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos) and Stephen Tobolowsky (Groundhog Day).

Nolan's magisterial handling of the movie's slipperiness would be repeated in his future work; Insomnia, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, and Tenet being fellow mind-benders.

While we eagerly await his big-budget adaptation of The Odyssey, Memento is airing on TV tonight on Film4 at 11.35pm.

Here are the other movies on TV tonight:

Little Women - Film4 - 6.20pm

Greta Gerwig's coming-of-age period drama, featuring Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Timothée Chalamet, chronicles the lives of four sisters during the 19th century.

Mission: Impossible III - ITV4 - 9pm

Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt to capture an arms dealer portrayed by an electric Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Top Gun: Maverick - Film4 - 9pm

A sequel to the 1986 classic Top Gun, action-packed Maverick made over £1 billion at the box office.

Malcolm X - BBC Two - 11pm

The machine that is Denzel Washington plays real-life activist Malcolm X under the stylish guidance of Spike Lee.

The Hunt for Red October - More 4 - 11.05pm

Alec Baldwin is CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan in this submarine spy epic.