X-Men: First Class (2011)
Genres: Superhero
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Oliver Platt, Jason Flemyng, Lucas Till, Edi Gathegi, Kevin Bacon, Caleb Landry Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Craven, Álex González, Rade Šerbedžija, Glenn Morshower, Corey Johnson, Demetri Goritsas, Don Creech, James Remar, Ludger Pistor, Ray Wise, Olek Krupa, Gene Farber, James Faulkner, Annabelle Wallis, Sasha Pieterse, Brendan Fehr, Michael Ironside, Jason Beghe, Tony Curran, Randall Batinkoff, Laurence Belcher, Bill Milner, Morgan Lily, Hugh Jackman, Jim Meskimen, Rebecca Romijn
X-Men: First Class is a 2011 superhero film based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics. It is the fourth mainline installment in the X-Men film series and the fifth installment overall. It was directed by Matthew Vaughn and produced by Bryan Singer, and stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. At the time of its release, it was intended to be a franchise reboot and contradicted the events of previous films; however, the follow-up film X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) retconned First Class into a prequel to X-Men (2000). First Class is set primarily in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and focuses on the relationship between Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, and the origin of their groups—the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, respectively, as they deal with the Hellfire Club led by Sebastian Shaw, a mutant supremacist bent on enacting nuclear war.