X-Files Mythology Episodes Ranked
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1.
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
2.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Paper Clip
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a top secret project.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Walter Gotell
Votes: 5,248
3.
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
4.
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
5.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Erlenmeyer Flask
(1994)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Deep Throat tips Mulder to a critically important case involving a missing fugitive and the cloning of extraterrestrial viruses.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Lindsey Ginter, Anne DeSalvo
Votes: 6,092
6.
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
7.
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
8.
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
9.
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
10.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
731
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder becomes trapped aboard a train rigged with an explosive device. Scully searches for the truth behind the government's secret experiments.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Stephen McHattie, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,621
11.
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
12.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Colony
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When someone sends Mulder and Scully obituaries showing three separate but identical men apparently having died, the agents investigate, but things take an unexpected turn when Mulder receives a call from his father.
Director: Nick Marck | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Peter Donat, Brian Thompson
Votes: 5,152
13.
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
14.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Blessing Way
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A furious pursuit of Agent Mulder is underway, and more importantly, the government wants the data tape he carried. Agent Scully, against all odds, searches to uncover his whereabouts, persisting that he is alive when all others deny it.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Peter Donat
Votes: 4,913
15.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Redux
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder accesses a facility that may hold a cure for Scully's illness. Scully performs an experiment in hopes of determining the origin of the disease.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,043
16.
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
17.
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
18.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Duane Barry
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A former FBI agent who claims he was abducted by aliens takes several people hostage. Mulder agrees to be the negotiator.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Steve Railsback, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 5,663
19.
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
20.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Gethsemane
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder fights to prove that a discovery frozen in the mountains of Canada is irrefutable evidence of alien life, but his quest for the truth only leads to more lies and an unthinkable conclusion.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Finn, Matthew Walker
Votes: 3,794
21.
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
22.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Talitha Cumi
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After his mother suffers a stroke under strange circumstances, Mulder searches for a strange, benevolent alien man that possesses miraculous healing powers.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,153
23.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Nisei
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An "alien autopsy" videotape and a murder spark Mulder's search for a strange creature. Scully looks for information about her disappearance.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 4,505
24.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Tunguska
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A tip from Krycek takes Mulder to a gulag in Tunguska, Russia where prisoners are being used for experiments with the black oil alien virus. Meanwhile, Scully's colleague is infected with the same virus which lay dormant in a meteorite.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,229
25.
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
26.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Memento Mori
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully attempts to come to terms with her inoperable cancer. Meanwhile Mulder and the Lone Gunmen break into a high-security research lab to find the cure that could save her life.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,159
27.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Herrenvolk
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With his mother on deathbed and the alien bounty hunter in pursuit, Mulder decides to put the alien healer in mortal danger for a chance to finally uncover the whole truth behind the alien conspiracy. Meanwhile, Mr. X's cover is blown.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,240
28.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Piper Maru
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The agents investigate the mystery surrounding a sunken World War II aircraft.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Robert Clothier
Votes: 4,373
29.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Red and the Black
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully undergoes hypnosis to recall her experiences on the bridge where the group of abductees was burned alive. Krycek provides the consortium with a vaccine for the black oil and tells Mulder of the planned colonization and alien rebels.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 3,565
30.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Max
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully continue their investigation into what really caused the airliner to crash, as the military insidiously begins to cover up the truth and even tries to murder the agents. Someone close to Scully is killed in the process.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Joe Spano
Votes: 3,869
31.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Tempus Fugit
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While investigating the unexplained crash of a commercial airliner the agents' search for answers leads to the bottom of a desolate lake and a startling discovery involving Mulder's alien abductee friend Max Fenig.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Joe Spano, Tom O'Brien
Votes: 3,945
32.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
E.B.E.
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully become the focus of a disinformation campaign when they attempt to trace the government's secret transport of an alien life form.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jerry Hardin, Allan Lysell
Votes: 5,896
33.
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
34.
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
35.
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
36.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
This Is Not Happening
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jeremiah Smith appears out of nowhere and formerly dead abductees are coming back to life, giving Scully and Skinner the idea that Mulder may have a shot at still being alive.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish
Votes: 2,905
37.
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
38.
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
39.
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
40.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Patient X
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully search for answers when separate groups of alien abductees are burned alive. They meet a woman with an implant in her neck and symptoms similar to Scully.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Nicholas Lea, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 3,571
41.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Terma
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder tries to stop a Russian supersoldier from destroying the site in North America where the black oil virus can be excavated. Scully is jailed after she refuses to reveal Mulder's whereabouts at a Senate subcommittee hearing.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,036
42.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Pilot
(1993)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Agent Dana Scully is instructed to debunk an FBI project dubbed "The X-Files," paranormal cases that have been reopened by Agent Fox Mulder.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Charles Cioffi, Cliff De Young
Votes: 12,737
43.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Zero Sum
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A swarm of bees mysteriously kill a postal worker in an enclosed restroom. Assistant Director Skinner covers up the evidence. Mulder investigates Skinner's apparent involvement with the crime.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 3,759
44.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Closure
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With help from a police psychic, Mulder continues to search for clues about Samantha's abduction and ultimately finds the long sought after answers concerning her fate.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 3,698
45.
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
46.
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
47.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Biogenesis
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder believes metallic objects discovered on the coast of West Africa are proof of the extraterrestrial origin of life on Earth. He falls mentally ill under the apparent influence of the artifact while Scully goes to Africa for answers.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 3,277
48.
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
49.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Little Green Men
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With the X-Files shut down, Mulder travels to Puerto Rico on a tip from his mentor in the Senate to uncover the reason behind the sudden reactivation of a remote long abandoned SETI-like communications station.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Mike Gomez
Votes: 5,438
50.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Deep Throat
(1993)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behaviour.
Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jerry Hardin, Michael Bryan French
Votes: 7,964
51.
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
52.
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
53.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Sein und Zeit
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The strange disappearance of a little girl leads Mulder to make connections with previous unexplained cases of missing children. Scully believes he is becoming obsessed with the case by associating it with the abduction of his sister.
Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Mark Rolston
Votes: 3,266
54.
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
55.
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
56.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Demons
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Covered in blood and suffering from amnesia, Mulder pieces together the events of the last few days, but the trail leads to a double murder that appears to have been committed with Mulder's weapon.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jay Acovone, Mike Nussbaum
Votes: 3,662
57.
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
58.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Per Manum
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully stumbles upon a woman whose abductee experience and symptoms are amazingly similar. The fear now is that both their upcoming births will be to non-human offspring.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,841
59.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Ghouli
(2018)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a pair of teenage girls attack one another, each believing the other to be a monster, Mulder and Scully find that their investigation could possibly lead back to their long-lost son, William.
Director: James Wong | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Miles Robbins
Votes: 3,026
60.
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
61.
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
62.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Sixth Extinction
(1999)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully and a colleague try to decipher the symbols on the spaceship beached in Africa before their rival can take over the dig, but the ship starts recreating the Plagues of Egypt. Skinner and Kritschgau test Mulder's telepathic ability.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Mimi Rogers
Votes: 3,257
63.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Fallen Angel
(1993)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The future of the X-Files project is jeopardized after Mulder secretly infiltrates the government cover-up of a UFO crash.
Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Frederick Coffin, Marshall Bell
Votes: 6,243
64.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Gift
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Skinner and Doggett investigate a case Mulder was working on before he disappeared involving a family and a monster straight from Native American lore.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,856
65.
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
66.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Christmas Carol
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While visiting family for Christmas, Scully receives a mysterious phone call that leads to a woman's apparent suicide and a young girl who may be her sister Melissa's daughter.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Sheila Larken, Melinda McGraw
Votes: 3,650
67.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
William
(2002)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A disfigured man attacks Doggett trying to retrieve X-Files for Mulder...but he might be Mulder himself.
Director: David Duchovny | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,597
68.
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
69.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Emily
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully and Mulder search for a cure to Emily's strange illness.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Pyper-Ferguson, Sheila Larken
Votes: 3,557
70.
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
71.
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
72.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Conduit
(1993)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an "encounter" he experienced as a child.
Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Carrie Snodgress, Michael Cavanaugh
Votes: 6,911
73.
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
74.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Provenance
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man is chased from the Canada/US border and reportedly burned alive though his body is not found. Meanwhile, in the burned remains, the FBI finds papers with the same UFO markings Scully found in Africa.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,443
75.
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
76.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Travelers
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1990, Mulder investigates the death of a man who disappeared in 1952 before he could be charged in a series of bizarre killings. The retired agent who worked the 1952 case recounts the facts to Mulder and the connection to his father.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Fredric Lehne, Garret Dillahunt
Votes: 3,355
77.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
My Struggle IV
(2018)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully rush to find an on-the-run William while the Cigarette Smoking Man pushes forward with his ultimate plan.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Barbara Hershey
Votes: 2,679
78.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Nothing Important Happened Today
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Doggett's investigation of Deputy Director Kersh hits difficulties, the agents encounter a beautiful woman with the ability to remain submerged underwater.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,615
79.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Jump the Shark
(2002)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Lone Gunmen, with the (unwanted) aide of Morris Fletcher, must stop a destructive virus from entering the populace.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,604
80.
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
81.
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
82.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
My Struggle III
(2018)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on the outcome.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Barbara Hershey
Votes: 4,115
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