Favorite X Files Stand-alone Episodes
by singh180 | created - 20 Aug 2020 | updated - 22 Oct 2020 | PublicIn no order and unattached to mythology
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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: 8,453
2.
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: 8,192
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
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
7.
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: 5,874
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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
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:
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
13.
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: 4,585
14.
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: 7,416
15.
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
16.
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
17.
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
18.
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
19.
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: 6,618
20.
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
21.
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
22.
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
23.
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
24.
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
25.
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
26.
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
27.
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
28.
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
29.
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
30.
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
31.
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
32.
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
33.
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
34.
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
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