If You Liked The X-Files, Watch These Next
Finished The X-Files (1998) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The X-Files, most of them are mystery, science fiction, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The X-Files: I Want to Believe(2008)
5.9MysteryScience FictionThrillerAlso 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.
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3.Rage of Stars(2026)
6.6ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso 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.
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5.Chain Reaction(1996)
5.8ThrillerActionScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed…
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6.Sphere(1998)
6.1Science FictionMysteryThrillerAlso 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. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo…
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7.Warning Sign(1985)
6.0DramaScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
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8.Predator 2(1990)
6.3Science FictionActionThrillerAlso 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.
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9.Right at Your Door(2006)
5.8DramaThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
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10.Containment(2015)
5.9ThrillerHorrorScience FictionAlso 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?
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11.The Abyss(1989)
7.4AdventureThrillerScience FictionAlso 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 he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
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12.Serenity(2005)
7.4Science FictionActionAdventureAlso 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 find themselves being pursued by an Alliance agent who will stop at nothing to find them.
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15.Dark Skies(2013)
6.4Science FictionThrillerHorrorAlso 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 escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly…
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16.Multiverse(2021)
6.6Science FictionThrillerDramaAlso 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 is real.
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18.Phoenix Forgotten(2017)
6.3HorrorMysteryScience FictionAlso 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 expedition.
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19.Die Alone(2024)
6.4HorrorThrillerScience FictionAlso 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 encounters Mae, a hardened and eccentric survivor. Together, Ethan and Mae face threats both human…
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20.The Signal(2007)
5.9HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso 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.
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