Best Standalone X File Episodes
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1.
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: 7,395
2.
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: 5,202
3.
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
4.
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: 6,715
5.
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: 3,637
6.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Sunshine Days
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reyes and Doggett investigate two murders revolving around a house that is, at some points in time, identical to the Brady Bunch house.
Director: Vince Gilligan | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,557
7.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Audrey Pauley
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reyes is seriously injured in a car accident and finds herself in a hospital similar to purgatory with other hospital patients suffering from serious traumas. Slowly they all begin to disappear. Meanwhile, in the real world, Doggett refuses to accept his friend's 'mortal' wounds and uses a bizarre hospital employee to both connect with Reyes in the other-world and capture a 'Dr. Death.'
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Stan Shaw
Votes: 2,586
8.
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
9.
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: 4,544
10.
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: 4,580
11.
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: 4,309
12.
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: 5,664
13.
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: 4,919
14.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Lord of the Flies
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Doggett and Reyes investigate a teenage boy who may have the ability to control insects and uses it to kill. Scully and a pushy, pompous, flirtatious entomologist assist them.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Hank Harris
Votes: 2,593
15.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Lazarus
(1994)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The consciousness of a dangerous criminal possesses an FBI agent who is also Scully's ex-boyfriend.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Christopher Allport, Cec Verrell
Votes: 5,376
16.
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: 5,976
17.
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: 8,174
18.
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: 7,164
19.
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: 5,200
20.
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: 4,579
21.
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: 5,097
22.
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: 4,445
23.
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: 4,116
24.
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: 4,460
25.
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: 3,721
26.
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: 8,442
27.
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: 6,564
28.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Milagro
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A strange writer infatuated with Scully moves in next door to Mulder and proceeds to slowly bewitch her through his writing. Mulder investigates the man and realizes that he may be behind a series of killings involving psychic surgery.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Hawkes, Nestor Serrano
Votes: 4,056
29.
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
30.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Goldberg Variation
(1999)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man is tossed off the top of a 29 story building by gangsters. Amazingly, he gets up and walks away unscathed. Mulder and Scully investigate when Mulder suspects this man may have ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Willie Garson, Alyson Reed
Votes: 3,644
31.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Orison
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Five years have passed since Scully escaped from Donnie Pfaster, an obsessed death fetishist. When Reverend Orison helps the madman escape from prison he immediately turns to the one that got away...Scully.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Scott Wilson, Nick Chinlund
Votes: 3,255
32.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Je Souhaite
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two brothers have a less than helpful genie who grants their wishes with disastrous consequences. Mulder comes into possession of the same genie, and his wishes garner similar results.
Director: Vince Gilligan | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Paula Sorge
Votes: 3,671
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
34.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
4-D
(2001)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Agent Dogget has been shot and hospitalized. The only suspect is his partner. However, she was 14 miles away when the shooting occurred. The team sticks together to solve the case of being in two places at one time.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi
Votes: 2,736
35.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Young at Heart
(1994)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A criminal believed to have died in a prison years earlier wages a vendetta against Mulder.
Director: Michael Lange | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Dick Anthony Williams, Alan Boyce
Votes: 5,298
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