Top 17 Romance Movies Highly Recommended Released in 1922

When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate. Get info on Destiny / IMDB / YouTube

Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way. Info on Orphans of the Storm / IMDB / YouTube

A nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John. Find out about Robin Hood / IMDB / YouTube

A shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again. More about Phantom / IMDB / YouTube

Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. Dr. Jack's old-fashioned methods do the trick, and the quack is sent packing. Learn about Dr. Jack / IMDB / YouTube

A toreador's (Rudolph Valentino) familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair. Read about Blood and Sand / IMDB / YouTube

Mary Tudor, sister of England's Henry VIII, causes a stir by falling in love with a guardsman below her class. Read about When Knighthood Was in Flower / IMDB / YouTube

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries. Explore The Loves of Pharaoh / IMDB / YouTube

This delightful burlesque of Alexandre Dumas' famous adventure narrative (and then-leading screen swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks' hit films) represented one of writer/director/star Max Linder's attempts to conquer Hollywood on its own turf. He'd been an enormous star in early silent cinema, influencing the style of such subsequent silent comedy luminaries as Charles C. Find out about The Three Must-Get-Theres / IMDB / YouTube

Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill; a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on young Tess, and one of them, Ben Letts, frames Tess' father for murder. While maintaining her father's innocence, Tess must keep her love for Graves' son a secret while caring for Elias' dau. See more about Tess of the Storm Country / IMDB / YouTube

A government agent infiltrates a gang of Chinese immigrant smugglers and pursues their ringleader throughout the heart of the Southwestern desert. Read about Sky High / IMDB / YouTube

Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy. See more about Othello / IMDB / YouTube

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman. Info on The Sawmill / IMDB / YouTube

Poor Bessie MacGregor is struck by the automobile of wealthy Mrs. Templeton Orrin and is taken home to live with her. But Bessie leaves when Mrs. Orrin's brother, J. Warburton Ashe, trifles with her love. Thief Tony Pantelli befriends her in the tenement where she finds a room, tries to obtain money for her care from Ashe, and, failing, steals a goblet that Ashe has b. See more about The Light in the Dark / IMDB / YouTube

The hunter becomes the hunted as Corporal James Kent (Lew Cody), of the Canadian Royal Mounted, fighting for his life, is guided to a secret valley, a refuge for wanted men, by a French-Canadian beauty, Marette Radison (Alma Ruben), with a secret of her own. Get info on The Valley of Silent Men / IMDB / YouTube