Follows
"The X Files" (1993)
Followed by
The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Spin off
The X Files: Resist or Serve (2004) (VG)
References
The Wizard of Oz (1933)
- Mulder: [referencing the Lone Gunmen] Cowardly Lion, Tinman, Toto
Star Wars (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Alien (1979)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Thing (1982)
- Similar shaped space ship buried in ice at Antartic
Spies Like Us (1985)
Independence Day (1996)
- Mulder urinates up a poster for the film
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
Referenced in
Inside the X Files (1998) (TV)
"Saturday Night Live: David Duchovny/Puff Daddy/Jimmy Page (#23.20)" (1998)
- Mentioned in Mango skit
The Faculty (1998)
- Casey asks Stokely "Maybe the X-Files is right!"
"Spaced: Battles (#1.4)" (1999)
- Tim has an X-Files movie poster in his room
"Spaced: Leaves (#2.7)" (2001)
- Tim has a movie poster.
"The X Files: Alone (#8.19)" (2001)
- Agent Leyla Harrison asks Mulder and Scully what happened on the polar ice in the end of the film.
Dead Man's Dream (2002)
Turn of the Tide: Making Millennium - Season Two (2004) (V)
- mentioned once
Man yan (2004)
- A DVD vendor recommends the film to his customers in a restaurant.
Alien Autopsy (2006)
- The release of the Alien Autopsy footage is mentioned as coinciding with a same time showing of the "X Files."
Fifty Pills (2006)
- movie poster in bedroom
Surf School (2006)
- mentioned in dialogue
The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
- After being rescued, Mulder says to Skinner, "Cold, I'm cold" and Skinner holds him in his lap. In the first movie, Mulder does the same thing for Scully.
Featured in
The X-Files Movie Special (1998) (TV)
2nd Annual Mystery Science Theater 3000 Summer Blockbuster Review (1998) (TV)
- features clips from this film
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future' (1998) (V)
"The X Files: The Truth: Parts 1 & 2 (#9.19)" (2002)
- Footage of the prehistoric virus produced for the X Files feature film is shown.
Reflections on 'The X-Files' (2004) (V)
- clips shown
"I Love the '90s" (2004)
- Foootage from this film was edited into this mini-series.
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