The Best of X-Files

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1. 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: 5,326

Individual

2. 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: 6,563

Individual

3. 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: 5,500

Main

4. 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: 3,706

Individual

5. 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: 5,142

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6. The X Files (1998)

PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

60 Metascore

Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis

Votes: 110,142 | Gross: $83.90M

Movie

7. 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: 6,079

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8. 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: 5,647

Main

9. 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: 4,607

Main

10. 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: 5,173

Individual

11. 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: 5,216

Main

12. 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: 4,904

Main

13. 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: 6,540

Funny

14. 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: 4,213

Individual

15. 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: 6,714

Funny

16. 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: 4,444

Individual

17. 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: 4,491

Main

18. 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: 5,645

Bonus

19. 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: 4,259

Individual

20. 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: 3,945

Individual

21. 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: 4,170

Bonus

22. 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: 4,513

Individual

23. 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: 4,578

Funny

24. 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: 5,240

Main

25. 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: 4,154

Main

26. 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: 4,025

Individual

27. 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: 3,604

Main

28. 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: 3,229

Main

29. 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: 5,052

Individual

30. 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: 4,702

Individual

31. 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: 3,568

Main

32. 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: 3,561

Main

33. 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: 3,267

Individual

34. 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: 4,965

Individual

35. 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: 5,201

Funny

36. 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: 3,700

Main

37. 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: 3,087

Main

38. 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: 5,907

Individual

39. 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: 4,907

Individual

40. 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: 2,898

Main

41. 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: 2,781

Main

42. 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: 2,589

Main

43. 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: 3,162

Main

44. 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: 2,783

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