favorite x-files
by dangerorange20 | created - 27 Oct 2022 | updated - 29 Dec 2022 | Publiclist of my favorite x-files cases investigated by mulder and scully.
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1.
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
2.
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: 5,184
3.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
3
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Agent Scully is still missing, Agent Mulder embarks upon an investigation involving vampires in Los Angeles, subsequently becoming involved with a sultry female vampire who yearns to escape her lifestyle.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Justina Vail, Perrey Reeves
Votes: 5,126
4.
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
5.
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
6.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Calusari
(1995)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The agents investigate when a young boy's family is plagued by a series of tragic accidents.
Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Helene Clarkson, Joel Palmer
Votes: 4,615
7.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
D.P.O.
(1995)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The agents investigate the deaths of several young people who were apparently struck by lightning in the same small town.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Giovanni Ribisi, Jack Black
Votes: 5,105
8.
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
9.
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: 4,918
10.
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
11.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Sanguinarium
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Patients undergoing cosmetic surgery die horrible deaths at the hands of doctors possessed by witchcraft.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Richard Beymer, O-Lan Jones
Votes: 3,964
12.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
El Mundo Gira
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A desperate illegal immigrant who can't speak any English becomes patient zero for a mysterious illness and goes on the run from INS, the FBI and his own brother who blames him for the death of his girlfriend.
Director: Tucker Gates | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Rubén Blades
Votes: 3,822
13.
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
14.
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: 4,203
15.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Elegy
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Apparitions of women killed by a serial killer start appearing to people. Mulder figures they may be harbingers of death for those who see them. Scully is skeptical until she sees one. Their only lead is an autistic psychiatric patient.
Director: Jim Charleston | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Steven M. Porter, Alex Bruhanski
Votes: 3,736
16.
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
17.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Schizogeny
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A teenager becomes the prime suspect in his stepfather's odd murder. Mulder is not buying it since the man was literally swallowed by the ground. After another parent is killed, the suspicion falls on someone close to the kids.
Director: Ralph Hemecker | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Chad Lindberg, Sarah-Jane Redmond
Votes: 3,490
18.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Chinga
(1998)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rumors of witchcraft and sorcery surrounding a bizarre murder at a supermarket in a small New England fishing town lead Scully, who's on vacation, to a little girl and a cursed doll that may be hiding a murderous presence.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Susannah Hoffmann, Larry Musser
Votes: 4,128
19.
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
20.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Mind's Eye
(1998)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The prime suspect in a murder case is a woman who has been blind since birth, leading Mulder and Scully to conclude she may possess the ability to see through a killer's eyes.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Lili Taylor, Richard Fitzpatrick
Votes: 3,594
21.
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
22.
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
23.
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
24.
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
25.
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
26.
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
27.
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: 3,714
28.
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
29.
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
30.
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
31.
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
32.
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
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