The X-Files

About The X-Files

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

The X-Files is a crime, mystery, and science fiction series made for FOX. David Duchovny appears as Fox Mulder, and Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully.

Its 11 seasons and 218 episodes were broadcast from September 1993 to March 2018. That is around 20 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under FBI, supernatural power, paranormal investigation, and paranormal phenomena. In the United States it streams on Hulu. It scores 8.4 out of 10 from 3,782 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.

Millennium, Twin Peaks, and The Night Agent make useful companions to The X-Files, all filed under conspiracy and investigation.