Best X-Files episodes
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1.
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: 12,740
2.
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: 7,966
3.
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: 8,455
4.
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: 8,194
5.
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: 7,180
6.
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: 5,897
7.
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: 5,989
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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: 5,096
11.
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: 5,666
12.
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: 5,379
13.
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: 5,231
14.
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: 5,212
15.
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: 5,337
16.
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
17.
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: 5,153
18.
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
19.
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: 5,507
20.
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: 4,914
21.
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: 5,250
22.
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: 4,508
23.
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: 4,624
24.
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: 7,418
25.
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: 5,729
26.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Syzygy
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A rare alignment of the planets gives two homicidal teenage girls dangerous telekinetic powers while simultaneously driving their small town insane with satanic panic. Mulder's interest in the local female detective makes Scully jealous.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Wendy Benson-Landes
Votes: 4,919
27.
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: 4,375
28.
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: 4,359
29.
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: 6,554
30.
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
31.
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
32.
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: 4,516
33.
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: 6,620
34.
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: 5,656
35.
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: 4,230
36.
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: 4,037
37.
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
38.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Never Again
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder takes a vacation to visit Graceland while sending disaffected Scully to Philadelphia to look into Russians with ties to UFOs. She becomes attracted to a secretly unstable young divorcee whose tattoo is telling him to kill women.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Rodney Rowland, Jodie Foster
Votes: 4,204
39.
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: 4,160
40.
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
41.
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: 3,760
42.
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: 4,401
43.
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: 3,651
44.
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: 3,558
45.
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: 6,729
46.
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: 3,566
47.
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: 3,572
48.
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
49.
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
50.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
All Souls
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a girl dies a mysterious death, Scully and Mulder discover more girls' lives are at stake in a divine battle of good versus evil.
Director: Allen Coulter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Morshower, Jody Racicot
Votes: 3,551
51. The X Files (1998)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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: 110,199 | Gross: $83.90M
52.
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
53.
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: 4,469
54.
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
55.
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
56.
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: 4,316
57.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Rain King
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Mulder and Scully investigate a man who claims he can control the rain in a small, drought-stricken Kansas town, they encounter a force more powerful than the weather.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Victoria Jackson, Clayton Rohner
Votes: 3,772
58.
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
59.
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
60.
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: 4,266
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: 3,322
62.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
All Things
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully is finishing up the autopsy of a person at a hospital. A file mix-up involving the autopsy folder and another patient's x-ray leads Scully to discover a former lover of hers has been... See full summary »
Director: Gillian Anderson | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Colleen Flynn, Stacy Haiduk
Votes: 3,712
63.
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: 4,339
64.
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
65.
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: 3,590
66.
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
67.
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: 3,138
68.
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: 3,093
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:
Medusa
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Doggett takes to the Boston subways to try to figure out where a deadly agent that is killing citizens is coming from.
Director: Richard Compton | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Vyto Ruginis, Penny Johnson Jerald
Votes: 2,704
71.
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
72.
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: 2,842
73.
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: 2,906
74.
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
75.
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
76.
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: 3,165
77.
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
78.
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
79.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Founder's Mutation
(2016)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A scientist working for the DOD commits suicide. Mulder and Scully start an investigation only to discover a secret mutation experiment.
Director: James Wong | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Jonathan Whitesell
Votes: 6,666
80.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
(2016)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder questions his faith in the unexplained. He attempts to gather proof of the existence of the new creature he and Scully investigate before jumping to conclusions.
Director: Darin Morgan | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Rhys Darby, Kumail Nanjiani
Votes: 9,172
81.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Plus One
(2018)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully investigate a case involving several deaths where the victims previously reported encountering their own doppelgangers. The clues lead to a pair of fraternal twins playing a dangerous game telepathically.
Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Karin Konoval, Benjamin Wilkinson
Votes: 3,458
82.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
(2018)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Exploring the idea of The Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people remember an alternate history, Mulder and Scully find out how the X-Files themselves may really have originated.
Director: Darin Morgan | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Brian Huskey
Votes: 4,509
83.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Kitten
(2018)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Skinner goes AWOL when his past comes back to haunt him. As Mulder and Scully try to track him down, their growing mistrust of him reaches its apex.
Director: Carol Banker | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Cory Rempel
Votes: 2,745
84.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Familiar
(2018)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully suspect that darker forces are at play as they investigate a brutal animal attack on a little boy in Connecticut.
Director: Holly Dale | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Alex Carter, Jason Gray-Stanford
Votes: 2,949
85.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Fire
(1993)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully join forces with an inspector from Scotland Yard when a man with pyrokinetic powers stalks members of the British aristocracy.
Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Pays, Mark Sheppard
Votes: 6,125
86.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Jersey Devil
(1993)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over 40 years.
Director: Joe Napolitano | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Claire Stansfield, Wayne Tippit
Votes: 6,935
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