The Christmas movies that never were

Silent Knight

Starring

Orlando Bloom, Olivia WilliamsA battle-weary and faithless medieval knight (Bloom) finds himself unable to speak, until a magical snowbound adventure with a mysterious faerie woman (Williams), who claims to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, restores his Christmas spirit.

North Pole

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Viggo Mortensen, Tim RothIt’s crazy East European accent time again as Mortensen and Roth play a pair of Polish people traffickers who accidentally kidnap Santa and put him to work as an East End bear prostitute.

At Least You've Got Your Elf

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Leslie Philipps, Annette CrosbieThe inmates of a Southend old folks home are kept prisoner by a cruel, miserly owner, until a wandering elf strays in and sprinkles a little Christmas magic.

Saint Knickerless

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Rob Schneider, Carmen ElectraSchneider stars as Rod Hardman, a porn director working on the first hardcore festive flick until Santa gets wind of what’s going on and subjects Rod to a Dickensian voyage in which he learns to love and respect naked women and Christmas.

All-White Christmas

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Chris Rock, Reese Witherspoon, R Lee ErmeyNew York gangsta Rock has been dating Southern belle Witherspoon for over a year, but now he has to travel down to Alabama for the holidays and meet her Klan. Quite literally! ‘Meet the Parents’ collides with ‘Birth of a Nation’ in this riotous race-relations romp.

Naughty or Nice?

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Gerard Depardieu, Juliette BinocheSanta (Depardieu) shaves his beard, adopts a French accent and heads off to Nice for a well-earned break and a spot of holiday romance with Binoche’s snappy, life-loving café owner.

Nasty Nativity

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Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tom Welling, Wilmer ValderamaEx-TV heartthrobs Gellar, Welling and Valderama play Mary, Joseph and Jesüs, three high school teens who find their friends (Wendy King, Joe Shepherd and Bob Innkeeper) being picked off one by one by a masked loony in a Santa hat.

Hark the Herald Angels Swing

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Denzel Washington, Sam RockwellJingle them crazy bells, daddio, as Washington and Rockwell play a pair of hard-living jazz cats down on their luck in ’50s New York, until an incident with a warm-hearted hooker, an out-of-tune sax and a bucketful of hot nog brings their festive groove back.

Gold, Frankincense and Myrtle

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Julie Walters, Omar SharifAn elderly Barnet housekeeper slips through a hole in time and finds herself travelling the Silk Road to Bethlehem in the company of three great Oriental kings, including Sharif’s ageing, kindly hunk Balthasar.