Movies Like The X-Files

If you liked The X-Files (1998), a mystery and science fiction movie directed by Rob Bowman, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also mystery and science fiction
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.
2
Impostor (2001)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller
A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
3
Rage of Stars (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and thriller
A story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.
4
Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thriller
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
5
Sphere (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and mystery
A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate…
6
Predator 2 (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and thriller
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
7
Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and science fiction
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
8
The Abyss (1989)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller and science fiction
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where…
9
Serenity (2005)
★ 7.4/10Also science fiction and thriller
A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew…
10
Right at Your Door (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller and science fiction
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
11
Warning Sign (1985)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and thriller
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
12
Multiverse (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thriller
Four brilliant university students are forced to confront themselves in terrifying ways when their Quantum Physics experiment leads to an entangled parallel existence that leaves them questioning who they are and what…
13
The Gorge (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and thriller
Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.
14
Dark Skies (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and thriller
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an…
15
UFO (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also science fiction and thriller
A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.
16
The Signal (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and thriller
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
17
Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and science fiction
Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful…
18
Die Alone (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and science fiction
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he…
19
Dark Angel (1990)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and science fiction
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap…
20
Wifelike (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and mystery
A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the…