Top 30 X-Files Episode
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1.
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: 5,662
2.
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: 6,731
3.
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: 4,319
4.
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: 4,593
5.
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: 4,975
6.
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: 4,328
7.
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: 4,270
8.
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: 3,824
9.
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: 7,424
10.
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: 4,379
11.
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: 12,744
12.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Redux II
(1997)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully is hospitalized after collapsing, while Mulder receives help from a most unlikely source as he continues to search for a cure for Scully's illness.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,323
13.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Redux
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder accesses a facility that may hold a cure for Scully's illness. Scully performs an experiment in hopes of determining the origin of the disease.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,043
14.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Jump the Shark
(2002)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Lone Gunmen, with the (unwanted) aide of Morris Fletcher, must stop a destructive virus from entering the populace.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,608
15.
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: 3,709
16.
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: 8,198
17.
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: 5,991
18.
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: 6,097
19.
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: 5,031
20.
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: 5,511
21.
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: 5,882
22.
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: 3,795
23.
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: 6,623
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: 5,256
25.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Herrenvolk
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With his mother on deathbed and the alien bounty hunter in pursuit, Mulder decides to put the alien healer in mortal danger for a chance to finally uncover the whole truth behind the alien conspiracy. Meanwhile, Mr. X's cover is blown.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,246
26.
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: 3,848
27.
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: 4,473
28.
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: 2,951
29.
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: 3,166
30.
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: 6,559
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