6.7 Score

1998 • 2h 1min • PG-13 • Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

The X-Files

"Fight the future."

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.

IMDb 7.0

RT 67%

MC 60

Director

Rob Bowman

Writers

Frank Spotnitz

Chris Carter

Composer

Mark Snow

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David Duchovny

Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson

Agent Dana Scully

Mitch Pileggi

Assistant Director Walter Skinner

William B. Davis

The Cigarette-Smoking Man

John Neville

The Well-Manicured Man

Martin Landau

Kurtzweil

Jeffrey DeMunn

Bronschweig

Tom Braidwood

Frohike

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