The Golden Compass (2007)
A fantasy movie starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
A fantasy movie starring Emily Browning, Liam Aiken and Jim Carrey
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
A fantasy movie starring Sarah Bolger, Jordy Benattar and Freddie Highmore
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
X-Men: First Class (2011)
A science fiction movie starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Kevin Bacon
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants, to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
A science fiction movie starring Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen and Anna Paquin
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
X2 (2003)
A science fiction movie starring Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.