The X-Files: Episodes Ranked
by Musashi94 | created - 26 Mar 2017 | updated - 06 Feb 2019 | PublicA ranking of the 201 episodes of the original run of The X-Files television series, presented in order of best to worst.
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1.
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
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
7.
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
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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
11.
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
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:
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
14.
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
15.
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
16.
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
17.
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
18.
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
19.
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
20.
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
21.
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
22.
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
23.
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
24.
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
25.
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
26.
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
27.
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
28.
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
29.
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
30.
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
31.
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
32.
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
33.
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
34.
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
35.
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
36.
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
37.
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
38.
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
39.
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
40.
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
41.
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
42.
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
43.
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
44.
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
45.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Redrum
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man lives the most recent 5 days of his life backwards and finds out that he is the main suspect in the murder of his wife.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Joe Morton, Bellamy Young
Votes: 3,272
46.
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
47.
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
48.
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
49.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Audrey Pauley
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reyes is seriously injured in a car accident and finds herself in a hospital similar to purgatory with other hospital patients suffering from serious traumas. Slowly they all begin to disappear. Meanwhile, in the real world, Doggett refuses to accept his friend's 'mortal' wounds and uses a bizarre hospital employee to both connect with Reyes in the other-world and capture a 'Dr. Death.'
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Stan Shaw
Votes: 2,592
50.
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
51.
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
52.
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
53.
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
54.
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
55.
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
56.
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
57.
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
58.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
John Doe
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Doggett wakes up in Mexico and can't remember his name or what he is doing there. His only clues are small flashbacks of a child (his son) and two mysterious marks on his head.
Director: Michelle MacLaren | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,593
59.
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
60.
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
61.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Amazing Maleeni
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully investigate the apparent murder of a magician who was decapitated just minutes after he was able to perform the trick of turning his head around 360 degrees. The agents ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Ricky Jay, Jonathan Levit
Votes: 3,551
62.
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
63.
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
64.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Roadrunners
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Doggett is a little dismayed when Scully investigates a murder in a barely inhabited town in Utah without him. When Scully's car breaks down and she finds the town people aren't as sweet as they seem she struggles to find a way out of the demented town.
Director: Rod Hardy | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, David Barry Gray, Lawrence Pressman
Votes: 3,136
65.
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
66.
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
67.
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
68.
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
69.
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
70.
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
71.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Release
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An eerily brilliant cadet from Scully's class directs Doggett to a current murder case that may have something to do with a case that went unsolved 9 years prior - the murder of Doggett's young son.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Cary Elwes
Votes: 2,641
72.
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
73.
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
74.
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
75.
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
76.
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
77.
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
78.
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
79.
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
80.
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
81.
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
82.
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
83.
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
84.
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
85.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Improbable
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reyes, Doggett, and Scully are pulled into a bizarre serial murder case involving the number '3', numerology on a whole, and an eccentric man who likes to play checkers.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Burt Reynolds
Votes: 3,031
86.
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
87.
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
88.
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
89.
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
90.
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
91.
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
92.
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
93.
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
94.
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
95.
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
96.
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
97.
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
98.
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
99.
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
100.
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
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