Best X-Files episodes
by TheCaliGula | created - 29 Oct 2020 | updated - 10 Dec 2020 | PublicHave been watching all seasons in 2020 and truly found so much inspirational ideas. Some seasons considered declining has some of the best episodes I've seen. It is gripping.
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1.
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: 4,402
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: 6,729
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
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
7.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Tempus Fugit
(1997)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While investigating the unexplained crash of a commercial airliner the agents' search for answers leads to the bottom of a desolate lake and a startling discovery involving Mulder's alien abductee friend Max Fenig.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Joe Spano, Tom O'Brien
Votes: 3,946
8.
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
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: 7,418
10.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Grotesque
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a serial killer, who claims to have killed people under the influence of a demon, is arrested, the murders continue. Meanwhile Mulder, who believes that the demon might have picked someone new, goes neck-deep in the investigation.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Levani
Votes: 4,233
11.
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
12.
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: 8,196
13.
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: 7,183
14.
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: 6,336
15.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Space
(1993)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a space shuttle mission is sabotaged, Mulder suspects it may be the work of an alien spirit that inhabits the body of a former Gemini astronaut.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Ed Lauter, Susanna Thompson
Votes: 6,328
16.
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
17.
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: 3,643
18.
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: 3,649
19.
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
20.
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: 4,340
21.
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
22.
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: 3,679
23.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Fight Club
(2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two strikingly similar women, who do not know one another, cause people to erupt into violence upon each other, whenever these two women come in contact. Mulder and Scully set out to solve ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Art Evans
Votes: 3,227
24.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Gender Bender
(1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A religious sect becomes the prime suspect in a murder spree.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Brent Hinkley, Michele Goodger
Votes: 5,937
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