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Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'The X Files' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of how you can watch 'The X Files' right now, here are some details about the Ten Thirteen Productions, 20th Century Fox mystery flick.

Released June 19th, 1998, 'The X Files' stars David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 1 min, and received a user score of 69 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 1,526 respected users.

Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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."

'The X Files' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, and AMC on Demand .

'The X Files' Release Dates

Watch in Movie Theaters on June 19th, 1998 - Buy The X Files Movie Tickets
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting May 4th, 1999 - Buy The X Files DVD

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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.