
The X Files: I Want to Believe(2008)
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.


“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.

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

Blythe Danner
Cassidy

Terry O'Quinn
Michaud
The X-Files is a mystery, science fiction, thriller film released in 1998 exploring themes of helicopter, space marine, government, bomb, mutation, extraterrestrial technology. Directed by Rob Bowman, it stars David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi. 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.
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