Source Code vs The X-Files

Source Code has the higher audience score (7.3/10 against 6.9/10 for The X-Files). Source Code is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 2h 1m. The X-Files is the older of the two (1998 against 2011). Both are mystery, science fiction, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Source Code posterSource Code2011 VS The X-Files posterThe X-Files1998
Source CodeThe X-Files
Audience score★ 7.3/10★ 6.9/10
Year20111998
Length1h 33m2h 1m
GenresMystery, Science Fiction, ThrillerMystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Country––
DirectorDuncan JonesRob Bowman
Main castJeffrey Wright, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Michael ArdenMitch Pileggi, Gillian Anderson, Blythe Danner, Bruce Harwood, David Duchovny

Synopsis

Source Code

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

The X-Files

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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