X-Men: First Class

IMDb

7.7/10

Rated

PG-13

Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero prequel is set during the Cold War and tells how the X-Men began. James McAvoy plays the telepath Charles Xavier and Michael Fassbender plays Erik Lehnsherr, a Holocaust survivor hunting the Nazi scientist Sebastian Shaw. Working with the CIA, the two men become friends and recruit a group of young mutants, including Raven and Hank McCoy, while Shaw and his Hellfire Club push the world toward the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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