The X-Files: All Monsters of the Week Episodes
by Thindboy | created - 04 Mar 2016 | updated - 22 Mar 2016 | PublicThis is not a Top 10 or whatever list.
This List contains all the Monsters of the Week Episodes of The X-Files.
These Episodes are not necessary to watch to follow the Mythology Arc of the Series.
Sort the List by IMDb Rating to figure out what MOTW Episodes to watch and what not!!
They might be irrelevant but a lot of them are still very entertaining.
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1.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Squeeze
(1993)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully search for a humanoid killer whose savage murder spree reoccurs every 30 years.
Director: Harry Longstreet | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Doug Hutchison, Donal Logue
Votes: 8,452
2.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Jersey Devil
(1993)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over 40 years.
Director: Joe Napolitano | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Claire Stansfield, Wayne Tippit
Votes: 6,932
3.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Shadows
(1993)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of two men believed to have been killed by a powerful psychokinetic force.
Director: Michael Katleman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Barry Primus, Lisa Waltz
Votes: 6,477
4.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Ghost in the Machine
(1993)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On Halloween, Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a corporate executive who may have been murdered by a thinking computer.
Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jerry Hardin, Rob LaBelle
Votes: 6,416
5.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Ice
(1993)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate when a team of geophysicists stationed at a remote Alaskan outpost are killed by a parasitic alien life form.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Xander Berkeley, Felicity Huffman
Votes: 8,191
6.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Space
(1993)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a space shuttle mission is sabotaged, Mulder suspects it may be the work of an alien spirit that inhabits the body of a former Gemini astronaut.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Ed Lauter, Susanna Thompson
Votes: 6,325
7.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Eve
(1993)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully search for two missing girls who disappeared after their fathers were murdered in an identical fashion.
Director: Fred Gerber | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Harriet Sansom Harris, Erika Krievins
Votes: 6,578
8.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Fire
(1993)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully join forces with an inspector from Scotland Yard when a man with pyrokinetic powers stalks members of the British aristocracy.
Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Pays, Mark Sheppard
Votes: 6,120
9.
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
10.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Gender Bender
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A religious sect becomes the prime suspect in a murder spree.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Brent Hinkley, Michele Goodger
Votes: 5,933
11.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Lazarus
(1994)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The consciousness of a dangerous criminal possesses an FBI agent who is also Scully's ex-boyfriend.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Christopher Allport, Cec Verrell
Votes: 5,384
12.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Young at Heart
(1994)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A criminal believed to have died in a prison years earlier wages a vendetta against Mulder.
Director: Michael Lange | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Dick Anthony Williams, Alan Boyce
Votes: 5,305
13.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Miracle Man
(1994)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The agents investigate a ministry led by a man whose son possesses the power to heal, and to kill, with a touch of his hand.
Director: Michael Lange | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, R.D. Call, Scott Bairstow
Votes: 5,264
14.
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
15.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Darkness Falls
(1994)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A group of loggers working in a remote forest unearths thousands of deadly insectlike creatures that paralyze and cocoon their victims. Scully, Mulder and a few others end up trapped there.
Director: Joe Napolitano | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jason Beghe, Tom O'Rourke
Votes: 6,334
16.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Tooms
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Eugene Tooms, a supernatural killer whom Mulder helped incarcerate, is released on parole.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Doug Hutchison, Paul Ben-Victor
Votes: 5,987
17.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Born Again
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An 8-year-old girl is the prime suspect in a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated deaths.
Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Brian Markinson, Mimi Lieber
Votes: 5,065
18.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Roland
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When scientists at an aeronautics lab die under mysterious circumstances, the agents suspect a mentally challenged janitor may be the culprit.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Zeljko Ivanek, Micole Mercurio
Votes: 5,061
19.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Host
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder pursues a humanoid, parasitic organism that uses sewage systems as its home.
Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Darin Morgan
Votes: 5,873
20.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Blood
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of violent killings committed by seemingly normal residents of a small town.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William Sanderson, John Cygan
Votes: 5,184
21.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Sleepless
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder is on the manhunt for a Vietnam veteran who can project his consciousness into other people's minds to kill them. Mulder and Agent Krycek try to uncover the conspiracy behind the killer's powers.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 5,094
22.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
3
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Agent Scully is still missing, Agent Mulder embarks upon an investigation involving vampires in Los Angeles, subsequently becoming involved with a sultry female vampire who yearns to escape her lifestyle.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Justina Vail, Perrey Reeves
Votes: 5,126
23.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Firewalker
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
At a remote outpost, scientists watch as their camera picks up a moving shadow on the inside of a smoldering hot volcano, too hot for any living creature to survive. Mulder and Scully arrive and notice that everyone is acting strangely.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bradley Whitford, Leland Orser
Votes: 4,812
24.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Excelsis Dei
(1994)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder links a series of violent attacks at a convalescent home, including the brutal rape of a nurse, to angry spirits beyond the grave.
Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Teryl Rothery, Sab Shimono
Votes: 4,715
25.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Aubrey
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A pregnant police woman experiences visions that lead her to the remains of two FBI agents who went missing in the 1940s while on the trail of a serial killer that later got caught. The killings begin again but the only suspect is now 77.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Terry O'Quinn, Deborah Strang
Votes: 4,635
26.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Irresistible
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully and Mulder hunt down a fetishist who collects pieces of the dead.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bruce Weitz, Nick Chinlund
Votes: 5,209
27.
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
28.
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
29.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Fearful Symmetry
(1995)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In a small town in Idaho, a man is killed by what seems to be an invisible elephant. Mulder's investigation into the local zoo, its owners and a local animal rights group uncovers evidence of insidious alien experiments.
Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jayne Atkinson, Lance Guest
Votes: 4,492
30.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Død Kalm
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The crew of a U.S. military ship that disappeared in the Norwegian Sea is found dead from what seems to be rapid aging. Thinking it's another Philadelphia Experiment, Mulder boards the ghost ship along with Scully and a local skipper.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Savage, David Cubitt
Votes: 4,653
31.
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
32.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Calusari
(1995)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The agents investigate when a young boy's family is plagued by a series of tragic accidents.
Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Helene Clarkson, Joel Palmer
Votes: 4,615
33.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
F. Emasculata
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As Scully investigates the spread of a deadly contagion at a prison, Mulder tracks down two escaped convicts infected with the disease.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Charles Martin Smith, Dean Norris
Votes: 4,587
34.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Soft Light
(1995)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully's former student, Det. Kelly Ryan, asks the agents to help her catch a runaway government scientist responsible for several mysterious disappearances. Mulder realizes that the man is deathly afraid of his shadow for some reason.
Director: James A. Contner | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Tony Shalhoub, Kate Twa
Votes: 4,649
35.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Our Town
(1995)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reports of foxfire on a field in Dudley, Arkansas lead Mulder and Scully to a bizarre situation regarding the townsfolk. Employees of the Chaco Chicken Corporation are displaying bizarre behavior, and the death rate is slowly increasing.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Caroline Kava, John Milford
Votes: 4,584
36.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
D.P.O.
(1995)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The agents investigate the deaths of several young people who were apparently struck by lightning in the same small town.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Giovanni Ribisi, Jack Black
Votes: 5,105
37.
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: 7,415
38.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The List
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Enemies of a prison inmate who was executed in the electric chair begin dying one by one.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Bokeem Woodbine, Badja Djola
Votes: 4,325
39.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
2Shy
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Shy, overweight women are being pursued online by a suitor who courts them with Italian poetry. The women are being found dead, their corpses stripped of flesh.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Timothy Carhart, Catherine Paolone
Votes: 4,457
40.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Walk
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A quadruple amputee becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre deaths at an army hospital.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Thomas Kopache, Willie Garson
Votes: 4,224
41.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Oubliette
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman experiences a psychic connection with a teenager held captive by a deranged man.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Tracey Ellis, Michael Chieffo
Votes: 4,517
42.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Revelations
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully attempt to protect a boy, whose death could trigger the coming of Armageddon, from a possibly demonic serial killer who targets people with stigmata.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Kevin Zegers, Sam Bottoms
Votes: 4,149
43.
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
44.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Syzygy
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A rare alignment of the planets gives two homicidal teenage girls dangerous telekinetic powers while simultaneously driving their small town insane with satanic panic. Mulder's interest in the local female detective makes Scully jealous.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Wendy Benson-Landes
Votes: 4,916
45.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Grotesque
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a serial killer, who claims to have killed people under the influence of a demon, is arrested, the murders continue. Meanwhile Mulder, who believes that the demon might have picked someone new, goes neck-deep in the investigation.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Levani
Votes: 4,230
46.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Pusher
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A seemingly unmotivated murderer, who can apparently talk his victims into killing themselves is on the loose and it is up to Mulder and Scully to study the clues left to them by the person and capture him.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Robert Wisden
Votes: 4,926
47.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Teso dos Bichos
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearance of several members of an archaeological team that in Ecuador excavated an ancient burial urn supposedly protected by the vengeful spirit of the jaguar and had it sent to a museum in Boston.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Vic Trevino, Janne Mortil
Votes: 4,010
48.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Hell Money
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder, Scully and a local Chinese American cop investigate a deadly secret lottery run by the Triads in San Francisco's Chinatown district. The game is free to play but losing will cost you more than an arm and a leg.
Director: Tucker Gates | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, BD Wong, Lucy Liu
Votes: 4,004
49.
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
50.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Avatar
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Skinner, depressed over the fact that his wife is divorcing him, has a one night stand with a stranger who's found murdered in the morning. Mulder tries to prove Skinner's innocence but Skinner refuses to cooperate for some reason.
Director: Jim Charleston | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Tom Mason
Votes: 4,092
51.
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: 4,514
52.
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: 4,285
53.
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
54.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Teliko
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder believes a creature from an African folktale may be responsible for the disappearance of several black men in the Philadelphia area.
Director: Jim Charleston | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Carl Lumbly
Votes: 3,895
55.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Unruhe
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Photos of a hellish sight from the mind of a psychopath who abducts women makes Mulder think that the man has the ability of psychic photography.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Walter Marsh
Votes: 4,422
56.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Field Where I Died
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a doomsday religious cult, which inadvertently draws Mulder into recalling a past life and how Scully and others were there with him in the field where he died during the American Civil War.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Kristen Cloke
Votes: 4,523
57.
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: 3,963
58.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Paper Hearts
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An incarcerated serial killer claims Mulder's sister was one of his many victims.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Tom Noonan
Votes: 4,721
59.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
El Mundo Gira
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A desperate illegal immigrant who can't speak any English becomes patient zero for a mysterious illness and goes on the run from INS, the FBI and his own brother who blames him for the death of his girlfriend.
Director: Tucker Gates | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Rubén Blades
Votes: 3,821
60.
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: 4,293
61.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Never Again
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder takes a vacation to visit Graceland while sending disaffected Scully to Philadelphia to look into Russians with ties to UFOs. She becomes attracted to a secretly unstable young divorcee whose tattoo is telling him to kill women.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Rodney Rowland, Jodie Foster
Votes: 4,203
62.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Kaddish
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a Jewish man is murdered in a Jewish community, his killers are murdered, too. Mulder and Scully have to determine whether someone is exacting vengeance or larger forces are at work.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Justine Miceli, David Groh
Votes: 3,833
63.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Unrequited
(1997)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An embittered Vietnam War veteran who can apparently somehow make himself invisible to everyone around him is murdering military officials. In order to attempt to stop him, Mulder and Scully must first uncover his motives.
Director: Michael Lange | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Peter LaCroix
Votes: 3,667
64.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Synchrony
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mysterious old man is killing scientists working on the development of a cryobiologic compound. He freezes them to death with this same compound that doesn't even exist yet.
Director: Jim Charleston | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Joseph Fuqua, Susan Lee Hoffman
Votes: 3,713
65.
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
66.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Elegy
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Apparitions of women killed by a serial killer start appearing to people. Mulder figures they may be harbingers of death for those who see them. Scully is skeptical until she sees one. Their only lead is an autistic psychiatric patient.
Director: Jim Charleston | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Steven M. Porter, Alex Bruhanski
Votes: 3,736
67.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Unusual Suspects
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In May 1989, the Lone Gunmen meet for the first time when they assist a woman who claims the government plans to use civilians in a secret experiment.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Richard Belzer, Signy Coleman
Votes: 4,175
68.
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
69.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Post-Modern Prometheus
(1997)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
in this surreal, comical take on Frankenstein, Mulder and Scully arrive in a small rural town to investigate claims of a monster obsessed with Cher that's sedating and impregnating the local women.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John O'Hurley, Pattie Tierce
Votes: 5,671
70.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Kitsunegari
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Robert Patrick Modell, aka "Pusher," has recovered from his injuries and escaped from a prison hospital. Mulder and Scully lead the manhunt even as Modell may be using his powerful mind-control capabilities to target Fox for revenge.
Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Diana Scarwid
Votes: 3,659
71.
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
72.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Chinga
(1998)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rumors of witchcraft and sorcery surrounding a bizarre murder at a supermarket in a small New England fishing town lead Scully, who's on vacation, to a little girl and a cursed doll that may be hiding a murderous presence.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Susannah Hoffmann, Larry Musser
Votes: 4,128
73.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Kill Switch
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The brutal murder of a renowned computer programmer leads Mulder and Scully to investigate an artificial intelligence program loose on the Internet that has begun evolving on its own.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Kristin Lehman, Kate Luyben
Votes: 4,030
74.
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
75.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Mind's Eye
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The prime suspect in a murder case is a woman who has been blind since birth, leading Mulder and Scully to conclude she may possess the ability to see through a killer's eyes.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Lili Taylor, Richard Fitzpatrick
Votes: 3,594
76.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
All Souls
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a girl dies a mysterious death, Scully and Mulder discover more girls' lives are at stake in a divine battle of good versus evil.
Director: Allen Coulter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Morshower, Jody Racicot
Votes: 3,551
77.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Pine Bluff Variant
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder goes undercover to infiltrate a militia group armed with a deadly pathogen and wanted for domestic terrorism. Scully becomes suspicious when Mulder lets a suspect escape but she learns that his assignment may be a suicide mission.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Daniel von Bargen
Votes: 3,529
78.
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
79.
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
80.
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
81.
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
82.
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
83.
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
84.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Terms of Endearment
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A pregnant woman's baby is snatched away from her belly by a devil. Agent Spender believes the case is a joke, but Mulder decides to look into it on his own anyway. His investigation focuses on the woman's husband.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Chris Owens, Bruce Campbell
Votes: 3,714
85.
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
86.
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: 3,726
87.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Agua Mala
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As a hurricane bears down on the Florida coast, the agents search for a sea monster that Arthur Dales believes is responsible for the disappearance of a couple and their son.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jeremy Roberts, Joel McKinnon Miller
Votes: 3,485
88.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Monday
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman desperately attempts to change the outcome of the events of a day she is forced to relive again and again in which her boyfriend explodes a bomb during a failed bank robbery killing everyone inside, including Mulder and Scully.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Carrie Hamilton
Votes: 4,550
89.
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: 4,264
90.
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
91.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Trevor
(1999)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An escaped convict seems to have gained the ability to pass through solid objects as well as people. Mulder and Scully must find the deadly convict before he can get to his ex-girlfriend.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Diehl, Tuesday Knight
Votes: 3,243
92.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Milagro
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A strange writer infatuated with Scully moves in next door to Mulder and proceeds to slowly bewitch her through his writing. Mulder investigates the man and realizes that he may be behind a series of killings involving psychic surgery.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Hawkes, Nestor Serrano
Votes: 4,063
93.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Unnatural
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Searching through an FBI reference book, Mulder finds a photograph of Arthur Dales with a baseball team and the alien bounty hunter. Mulder goes to Arthur Dales' house to ask him about the ... See full summary »
Director: David Duchovny | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jesse L. Martin, Fredric Lehne
Votes: 4,377
94.
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
95.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Field Trip
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The skeletal remains of a young couple are found after they have been missing for only three days in an area known for UFO activity. Mulder and Scully have different experiences in the investigation but nothing is quite as it seems.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Robyn Lively
Votes: 3,955
96.
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
97.
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
98.
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
99.
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
100.
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
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