X-Files 10s
by regan-walters | created - 31 Jul 2017 | updated - 11 Feb 2020 | PublicTop 3 are in definite order 4-10 are also in an order, although I am currently unsure about their rankings.
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1.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
One Breath
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully's comatose body is discovered at a local hospital and her life is hanging in the balance. When Mr. X shows Mulder the high price he'd have to pay if he truly wants justice for Scully, Mulder must choose between hope and revenge.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Sheila Larken, Melinda McGraw
Votes: 5,228
2.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Redux II
(1997)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully is hospitalized after collapsing, while Mulder receives help from a most unlikely source as he continues to search for a cure for Scully's illness.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,323
3.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Humbug
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The agents search for a killer in a Florida town inhabited by sideshow performers.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jim Rose, Wayne Grace
Votes: 5,918
4.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Die Hand Die Verletzt
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The agents investigate a murder in a small town populated by devil worshippers.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Dan Butler, Susan Blommaert
Votes: 5,334
5.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Detour
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the unexplored woods of Florida's Apalachicola National Forest, Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearances of two land surveyors and a boy's claims that he and his father were attacked by an invisible creature.
Director: Brett Dowler | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Colleen Flynn, J.C. Wendel
Votes: 4,399
6.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Truth
(2002)
TV-14 | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder's return leads to him being tried for murder before a military tribunal where he seeks to prove the very existence of an alien conspiracy and justify the maintenance of the X-Files.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish
Votes: 3,822
7.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
(1995)
TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A grumpy old man with psychic powers that show him how someone will die assists the agents with the hunt for a crazed killer who targets psychics. He also cryptically reveals to Mulder and Scully their own ultimate fates.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Peter Boyle, Stuart Charno
Votes: 7,414
8.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Small Potatoes
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Five unrelated women in a small town give birth to babies with small tails. The prime suspect is a man who can shape shift into whomever he wants.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Darin Morgan
Votes: 5,208
9.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
(2016)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder questions his faith in the unexplained. He attempts to gather proof of the existence of the new creature he and Scully investigate before jumping to conclusions.
Director: Darin Morgan | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Rhys Darby, Kumail Nanjiani
Votes: 9,169
10.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully recounts the investigation of an alleged UFO encounter for the famous quirky author Jose Chung's latest novel. The case gives a whole new meaning to the term Rashomon effect. Chung later returns in Millennium: Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' (1997).
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Charles Nelson Reilly, William Lucking
Votes: 6,553
11.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Hollywood A.D.
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A screenwriter tags along with Mulder and Scully as they investigate a church bombing. The case becomes the plot of a Hollywood movie, but the agents find their case, and themselves, distorted on the big screen.
Director: David Duchovny | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Garry Shandling
Votes: 3,589
12.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Babylon
(2016)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a terrorist ends up in a coma, a pair of younger FBI agents ask Mulder and Scully for help communicating with the man, resembling them when their adventure first began and reminding them of just how far they have come.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Lauren Ambrose
Votes: 5,578
13.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
War of the Coprophages
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While looking for signs of alien ships in the sky above a small town, Mulder learns of a series of deaths supposedly caused by metallic cockroaches. He turns to sexy entomologist Bambi for help, which makes Scully angrily rush to his aid.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bobbie Phillips, Raye Birk
Votes: 5,724
14.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
X-Cops
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The investigation of a neighborhood monster isn't too weird for the crew of Cops (1989) to follow around Mulder and Scully.
Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Judson Mills, Dee Freeman
Votes: 4,338
15.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Existence
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Agents Mulder, Doggett and Skinner investigate (along with Alex Krycek) the Super Soldier conspiracy, while Scully goes into hiding to have her child.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 3,164
16.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Triangle
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder boards the wreck of a legendary missing WWII ship that suddenly appeared in the Bermuda Triangle. The ship turns out to be a time portal. Now Scully must use all of her wits to try and get the unwilling FBI to help her save him.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Chris Owens
Votes: 4,974
17.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Dreamland
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An anonymous tip finally brings Mulder and Scully to the mecca of all UFO lore, Area 51. But when the agents witness the flight of a mysterious craft there, Mulder and one of the Men in Black, Fletcher, somehow switch bodies - and lives.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Michael McKean, John Mahon
Votes: 4,589
18.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Ascension
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Agent Krycek are in a race against time to find and rescue abducted Scully before crazed Duane Barry can take her to what he believes to be his alien puppet masters.
Director: Michael Lange | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Steve Railsback, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 5,376
19.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Rain King
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Mulder and Scully investigate a man who claims he can control the rain in a small, drought-stricken Kansas town, they encounter a force more powerful than the weather.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Victoria Jackson, Clayton Rohner
Votes: 3,772
20.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Home
(1996)
TV-MA | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The remains of a murdered deformed infant lead the agents to a family of murderous, inbred, animal-like brothers living on a secluded farm in a remote section of Pennsylvania.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Tucker Smallwood, Chris Nelson Norris
Votes: 6,617
21.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Home Again
(2016)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully receives bad news about her family while away on a case. Mulder finds a strange paint sample at the crime scene which leads him to the left-handed artist that created the main suspect. This brings back memories to Scully.
Director: Glen Morgan | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Tim Armstrong, Daryl Shuttleworth
Votes: 5,112
22.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Fresh Bones
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The death of a Marine, who allegedly committed suicide, unearths a disturbing truth at a Haitian refugee camp.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bruce A. Young, Daniel Benzali
Votes: 4,439
23.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Dreamland II
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully begins to suspect that her partner's strange behavior is more than it appears to be, while Mulder fights to return his life to normal before it's too late.
Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Michael McKean, John Mahon
Votes: 4,315
24.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Sanguinarium
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Patients undergoing cosmetic surgery die horrible deaths at the hands of doctors possessed by witchcraft.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Richard Beymer, O-Lan Jones
Votes: 3,964
25.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Folie a Deux
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Paranoid telemarketer takes his coworkers and Mulder hostage claiming that their boss is a disguised insectoid monster that's literally turning the workers one by one into his zombie drones.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Brian Markinson
Votes: 4,122
26.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Red Museum
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A vegan religious cult is accused of kidnapping local teenagers for some type of ritual. Mulder and Scully begin to suspect that a different kind of conspiracy is at play when Scully sees Deep Throat's killer in town.
Director: Win Phelps | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Paul Sand, Steve Eastin
Votes: 4,918
27.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully searches for Mulder after the Cigarette Smoking Man takes him from the hospital for unknown purposes. An unconscious Mulder dreams of a better life away from his mission and the X-Files. But perhaps he is being led astray.
Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 3,321
28.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Arcadia
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On their first assignment after being reinstated to the X-Files, Scully and Mulder go undercover as husband and wife in a high-class planned community where several couples have gone missing.
Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Peter White, Abraham Benrubi
Votes: 4,265
29.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Requiem
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Seven years after their first case, Mulder and Scully return to Bellefleur, Oregon to see Billy Miles and investigate a new series of abductions in the local forest, risking their partnership and lives.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 3,273
30.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Millennium
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In this backdoor series finale to Millennium (1996), Mulder and Scully ask Frank Black to help them prevent a zombie apocalypse orchestrated by the rogue members of the now disbanded Millennium Group on the very eve of the new millennium.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Lance Henriksen
Votes: 3,440
31.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Three Words
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder requests reassignment to the X-Files but is denied by Kersh. When a man with information about an alien invasion is killed on the White House lawn, Mulder conducts his own investigation to find further evidence of colonization.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,782
32.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Via Negativa
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Scully tends to her secret, Doggett and Skinner team up to find and somehow stop a cult leader who can kill people in their dreams.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi, Keith Szarabajka
Votes: 2,885
33.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Smoking Man to Mulder with focus on three episodes from his life - the assassination of JFK, his attempts at becoming a novelist and one of his UFO cover ups.
Director: James Wong | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Morgan Weisser
Votes: 5,655
34.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Shapes
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A creature, possibly from Native American lore, is suspected of killing a man, bringing Mulder and Scully to the Indian reservation where the attack occurred in order to uncover its identity.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Ty Miller, Michael Horse
Votes: 5,364
35.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Beginning
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After the events of The X Files (1998) movie, Mulder and Scully's new boss, Kersh, assigns agents Spender and Fowley to work on the X-Files instead of them. Ignoring this, Mulder takes Scully on a hunt for a rampaging alien.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Chris Owens
Votes: 3,645
36.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Three of a Kind
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While infiltrating a defense contractor conference in Las Vegas, The Lone Gunmen are reunited with Susanne Modeski, the mysterious woman who disappeared 10 years earlier after the trio first came together to help her.
Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Signy Coleman, Charles Rocket
Votes: 3,397
37.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Je Souhaite
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two brothers have a less than helpful genie who grants their wishes with disastrous consequences. Mulder comes into possession of the same genie, and his wishes garner similar results.
Director: Vince Gilligan | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Paula Sorge
Votes: 3,678
38.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Chimera
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully are on a stakeout of a female serial-killer of prostitutes. Mulder gets called away from the stakeout by Skinner to investigate the disappearance of federal judge's ... See full summary »
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Michelle Joyner
Votes: 3,101
39.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Tithonus
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A rookie agent asks for Scully's help in proving that a quaint crime scene photographer is a serial killer. With some help from a bored Mulder, Scully discovers the man's actual dark secret. And an old prophecy regarding Scully comes true.
Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Ruccolo
Votes: 3,727
40.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Beyond the Sea
(1994)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully believes that the psychic predictions of a death row inmate are the only hope in the kidnapping of two college students.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Brad Dourif, Don S. Davis
Votes: 7,176
41.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Drive
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man tormented by a piercing sound that could make his head explode unless he heads west as fast as possible takes Mulder hostage to drive for him, while Scully rushes to find the cause of this affliction that also killed the man's wife.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bryan Cranston, Michael O'Neill
Votes: 4,327
42.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
(1998)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On Christmas Eve, Mulder and Scully find themselves trapped in a haunted house with two ghosts who are determined to prove just how lonely the holiday can be.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Lily Tomlin, Edward Asner
Votes: 4,467
43.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Hellbound
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reyes finds herself inexplicably connected to a case involving ex-cons who are being skinned.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Don Swayze
Votes: 2,440
44.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Empedocles
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Upon being fired, an office worker murders his employers, believed to be under the influence of pure evil. Agent Reyes believes this evil may be linked to the death of Doggett's son.
Director: Barry K. Thomas | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish
Votes: 2,592
45.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Apocrypha
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder uncovers clues about a cover-up involving an alien entity and a sunken World War II aircraft. Scully pursues the man who murdered her sister.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, John Neville
Votes: 4,358
46.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Orison
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Five years have passed since Scully escaped from Donnie Pfaster, an obsessed death fetishist. When Reverend Orison helps the madman escape from prison he immediately turns to the one that got away...Scully.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Scott Wilson, Nick Chinlund
Votes: 3,258
47.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Two Fathers
(1999)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The alien rebels return to kill abductees including Scully and Cassandra Spender. With the Syndicate in shambles, the Cigarette Smoking Man reveals the truth to Agent Spender hoping that he will continue his work.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Chris Owens
Votes: 3,610
48.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Alpha
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A series of murders is blamed on a mythical Asian dog that supposedly escaped from the US cryptozoologist who caught it. Mulder asks a reclusive female dog expert for help which angers Scully. The woman leaves him a special gift.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Melinda Culea, Thomas F. Duffy
Votes: 3,218
49.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Leonard Betts
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A headless corpse of a paramedic walks out of the hospital morgue triggering a manhunt for a man with unimaginable regenerative powers, that come at a terrible cost. The case makes Scully realize in shock that she may not be well.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Paul McCrane, Marjorie Lovett
Votes: 4,294
50.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
End Game
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder is forced to make an impossible choice, when the alien bounty hunter gives him an ultimatum - Scully's life for Samantha's.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Steven Williams, Peter Donat
Votes: 5,026
51.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Bad Blood
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully and Mulder each recount their version of events that led Mulder to drive a stake through the heart of a Texas teenager he claims was a vampire.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Luke Wilson
Votes: 6,727
52.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Anasazi
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder receives an encrypted computer tape containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the files.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Peter Donat, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
Votes: 5,506
53.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Hungry
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rob Roberts has an addiction to human brains. As he tries to control this overpowering hunger and turn his life around, Mulder and Scully try to find out who the brain-eating monster is.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Chad Donella, Mark Pellegrino
Votes: 3,641
54.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
One Son
(1999)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Everyone prepares in their own way for the alien rebels' bloody endgame after which nothing will ever be the same again. Mulder and Scully try their best to stop the bloodshed and save Spender's mother.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Chris Owens
Votes: 3,706
55.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Fight Club
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two strikingly similar women, who do not know one another, cause people to erupt into violence upon each other, whenever these two women come in contact. Mulder and Scully set out to solve ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Art Evans
Votes: 3,226
56.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Essence
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The X-Files team must protect Agent Scully and her unborn child as groups of Super Soldiers try to stop her pregnancy.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 2,785
57.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Vienen
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Doggett and Mulder unwillingly team up investigating an oil rig where some mysterious murders have happened and the possibility of the Black Oil being involved is a haunting reality.
Director: Rod Hardy | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,766
58.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Alone
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bizarre reptilian creature captures Doggett and his new Mulder-obsessed partner underground and only an X-Files deposed Mulder can help them.
Director: Frank Spotnitz | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,768
59.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Underneath
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After thirteen years in prison, a man named Fassl is released and cleared of murder charges when DNA evidence proves he had nothing to do with the murder of an entire family though he was present on the scene. Doggett, who made the arrest, refuses to accept Fassl's innocence and pursues the case again.
Director: John Shiban | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, W. Earl Brown
Votes: 2,349
60.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Within
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
New Deputy Director Kersh has Agent John Doggett investigate the missing Mulder case. Doggett's skeptical treatment of Mulder's disappearance puts a thorn in Scully and Skinner's sides.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 3,090
61.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
En Ami
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Agent Scully lets sympathy cloud her better judgment when she accompanies the Cigarette Smoking Man on a road trip and wonders if he's as evil as she always thought.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 3,235
62.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
My Struggle II
(2016)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully uncover a shocking truth with global ramifications.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Joel McHale
Votes: 4,661
63.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Providence
(2002)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully's baby becomes a bargaining chip for a psychotic UFO cult that feels the baby is ultimately connected to a UFO they have uncovered.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,448
64.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Nothing Important Happened Today II
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Doggett attempts to uncover the truth about a woman with superhuman abilities who is somehow connected to scientific experiments being conducted in a lab aboard a secret ship that stays at sea year round.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,559
65.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
4-D
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Agent Dogget has been shot and hospitalized. The only suspect is his partner. However, she was 14 miles away when the shooting occurred. The team sticks together to solve the case of being in two places at one time.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,740
66.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Patience
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully isn't exactly warm to Doggett on their first X-File together in which they investigate a human bat.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Bradford English, Gene Dynarski
Votes: 2,907
67.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
All Things
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully is finishing up the autopsy of a person at a hospital. A file mix-up involving the autopsy folder and another patient's x-ray leads Scully to discover a former lover of hers has been... See full summary »
Director: Gillian Anderson | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Colleen Flynn, Stacy Haiduk
Votes: 3,711
68.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Dæmonicus
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A professor/inmate in a psychiatric ward may be influencing other men to kill ritualistically. Though Doggett sees it as pure manipulation, Reyes can't help but suspect none else but the devil himself possessing the professor's body.
Director: Frank Spotnitz | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, James Remar
Votes: 2,558
69.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Goldberg Variation
(1999)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man is tossed off the top of a 29 story building by gangsters. Amazingly, he gets up and walks away unscathed. Mulder and Scully investigate when Mulder suspects this man may have ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Willie Garson, Alyson Reed
Votes: 3,647
70.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Without
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully leads Skinner and an unhappy Doggett to Arizona to protect child prodigy Gibson Praise from an alien bounty hunter disguised as the missing Mulder.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 3,016
71.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Scary Monsters
(2002)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reyes and Doggett, with the aid of a young Mulder-worshiping FBI agent, investigate a father who is exhibiting bizarre behavior regarding his son who he has kept hidden from the outside world.
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Jolie Jenkins
Votes: 2,441
72.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Schizogeny
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A teenager becomes the prime suspect in his stepfather's odd murder. Mulder is not buying it since the man was literally swallowed by the ground. After another parent is killed, the suspicion falls on someone close to the kids.
Director: Ralph Hemecker | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Chad Lindberg, Sarah-Jane Redmond
Votes: 3,490
73.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Deadalive
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Three months after Mulder's funeral, another dead alien abductee comes back to life. Skinner exhumes Mulder hoping that he too can be revived. Skinner faces an impossible decision when Krycek offers him a vaccine that can save Mulder.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 2,899
74.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Wetwired
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders linked to a mysterious device that alters television signals causing paranoid hallucinations. One of them falls victim to it.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Sheila Larken
Votes: 4,286
75.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Rush
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A high school boy is accused of the violent murder of a sheriff's deputy. Mulder believes he is innocent. The agents find that someone with super-human speed may be the culprit.
Director: Robert Lieberman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Rodney Scott, Scott Cooper
Votes: 3,146
76.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Brand X
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A potential witness in a high-profile tobacco case under Skinner's supervision is found dead in his bathroom from mysterious circumstances. Skinner asks Mulder and Scully to assist him in ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Dennis Boutsikaris
Votes: 2,980
77.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
My Struggle
(2015)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After the collapse of their relationship, former FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are reunited by a TV host who promotes conspiracy theories about the government and believes that alien abductions are actually false flag operations.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Joel McHale
Votes: 8,069
78.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
S.R. 819
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Skinner is infected with an unknown disease and receives a mysterious phone call telling him he has 24 hours to live, Scully and Mulder rush to find a cure and those responsible.
Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Raymond J. Barry
Votes: 3,419
79.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Lord of the Flies
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Doggett and Reyes investigate a teenage boy who may have the ability to control insects and uses it to kill. Scully and a pushy, pompous, flirtatious entomologist assist them.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Hank Harris
Votes: 2,595
80.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Trust No 1
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder contacts Scully which sets off a chain of events involving an NSA man obsessed with speaking and giving information to Mulder.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Terry O'Quinn
Votes: 2,597
81.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Quagmire
(1996)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder suspects that a beast similar to the Loch Ness Monster is responsible for the deaths of several people who reside near a large lake. Frustrated Scully insightfully confronts Mulder about the futility of their work on X-Files.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Chris Ellis, Timothy Webber
Votes: 4,515
82.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Founder's Mutation
(2016)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A scientist working for the DOD commits suicide. Mulder and Scully start an investigation only to discover a secret mutation experiment.
Director: James Wong | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Jonathan Whitesell
Votes: 6,666
83.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
(2018)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Exploring the idea of The Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people remember an alternate history, Mulder and Scully find out how the X-Files themselves may really have originated.
Director: Darin Morgan | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Brian Huskey
Votes: 4,508
84.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
This
(2018)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A chilling secret is revealed when an old friend reaches out to Mulder and Scully in a seemingly impossible way.
Director: Glen Morgan | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Barbara Hershey
Votes: 3,514
85.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The End
(1998)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A government assassin is caught trying to kill child chess prodigy Gibson Praise during an international chess tournament. Mulder's old flame Agent Diana Fowley arrives to help on the case but Scully is suspicious of her.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 3,847
86.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Badlaa
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A small Indian man on a creaky cart with powers of illusion is believed to have the ability to take over people's bodies and kill them by leaping into their anal cavity. Doggett and Scully try to stop his gruesome killing spree.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Michael Welch, Jordan Warkol
Votes: 2,877
87.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Plus One
(2018)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully investigate a case involving several deaths where the victims previously reported encountering their own doppelgangers. The clues lead to a pair of fraternal twins playing a dangerous game telepathically.
Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Karin Konoval, Benjamin Wilkinson
Votes: 3,457
88.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Familiar
(2018)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully suspect that darker forces are at play as they investigate a brutal animal attack on a little boy in Connecticut.
Director: Holly Dale | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Alex Carter, Jason Gray-Stanford
Votes: 2,947
89.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Nothing Lasts Forever
(2018)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While investigating human organ theft, Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.
Director: James Wong | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Fiona Vroom, Carlena Britch
Votes: 2,542
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