How to watch the The X Files films in order
There are 2 The X Files films, about 3.8 hours in total. The first was released in 1998, the latest in 2008. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
The X-Files (also known as The X-Files: Fight the Future) is a 1998 American science fiction thriller film directed by Rob Bowman. Chris Carter wrote the screenplay. The story is by Carter and Frank Spotnitz. It is the first feature film based on Carter's television series The X-Files that revolves around fictional unsolved cases called the X-Files and the characters solving them. The X-Files has spawned one sequel, a 2008 film entitled The X-Files: I Want to Believe released six years after the series ended.
- 1
The X-Files (1998)
19 Jun 1998 · 121 min
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
- 2
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
24 Jul 2008 · 104 min
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.