The invention discloses a mobile terminal and a file display method thereof, and relates to the technical field of file display. The mobile terminal can acquire and display file information of a plurality of media files from a plurality of installed target application programs, and the plurality of media files are provided by at least two different target application programs. Therefore, centralized display of the media files provided by the same type of application programs can be realized, and the display flexibility of the media files is improved. Moreover, since the user can directly select the media file to be displayed in the interface of the mobile terminal for intensively displaying the media file, on the one hand, the display efficiency of the media file is effectively improved, on the other hand, the operation process of the user is simplified, and the user experience is improved.