Best Romance Movies by Year
2696
925
1922
Chester M. Franklin
Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley, Priscilla Moran, Etta Lee
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1922
Phil Rosen
Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr., Helen Dunbar
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1922
Frank Borzage
Seena Owen, Matt Moore, J. Barney Sherry, Ethel Duray, Charles Craig
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, June Elvidge, Truly Shattuck, Lydia Yeamans Titus
Drama | Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1922
George Terwilliger
Marion Davies, John B. O'Brien, Frank Shannon, Wyndham Standing, Carl Miller
Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle
Western / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1922
George Melford
Dorothy Dalton, Charles Brinley, Emil Jorgenson, Rudolph Valentino, Maude Wayne
Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2823
989
1922
Elmer Clifton
Marguerite Courtot, Raymond McKee, William Walcott, Clara Bow, James Turfler
Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
1694
486
1921
Rex Ingram
Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2044
620
1921
Fritz Lang
Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Fantasy / Romance / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2276
712
1921
William C. de Mille
Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2519
835
1921
George Melford
Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller, George Waggner, Frank Butler
Romance / Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2560
854
1921
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Thimig
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2612
883
1921
Theodore Reed
Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, William Lowery, Gerald Pring
Romance / Action / Drama / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1921
D.W. Griffith
Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Ralph Graves, Edward Peil Sr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2696
925
1921
Jacques Feyder
Jean Angelo, Stacia Napierkowska, Georges Melchior, Marie-Louise Iribe
Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance / Adventure
France / Belgium
French (Silent)
2696
925
1921
George Pearson
Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright, Fred Groves, Mary Brough, W. Cronin Wilson
Comedy / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2696
925
1921
Fred Niblo
Douglas Fairbanks, Léon Bary, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Boyd Irwin
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1921
King Vidor
Lloyd Hughes, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Bennett, Lillian Leighton, Fred Gamble
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1921
Frank Lloyd
J. Frank Glendon, Leatrice Joy, Wallace Beery, E. Alyn Warren, Margaret McWade
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1173
326
1920
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Burr McIntosh, Kate Bruce
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1981
591
1920
Fred Niblo
Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell
Adventure / Romance / Comic
USA
English (Silent)
2209
688
1920
Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur
Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2560
854
1920
Mauritz Stiller
Gucken Cederborg, Carl Wallin, Vilhelm Bryde, John Lindlöf, Carina Ari
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2580
865
1920
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1920
Erich von Stroheim
Sam De Grasse, Una Trevelyn, Clyde Fillmore, Maude George, Leo White, Mae Busch
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1920
Victor Fleming
Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Renick, Wallace Beery, Paul Burns, Morris Hughes
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1920
Cecil B. DeMille
Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff, Sylvia Ashton
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2762
949
1920
Norbert A. Myles
Hunting Horse, Oscar Yellow Wolf, Esther LaBarre, White Parker, Wanada Parker
Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1920
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1920
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis, E. Alyn Warren
Crime / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
804
218
1919
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1788
519
1919
Cecil B. DeMille
Lila Lee, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Mildred Reardon, Gloria Swanson
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2519
835
1919
Erich von Stroheim
Sam De Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2612
883
1919
Victor Fleming, Theodore Reed
Douglas Fairbanks, Kathleen Clifford, Frank Campeau, Ralph Lewis, Daisy Jefferson
Action / Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2644
895
1919
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Clarine Seymour, Carol Dempster
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1919
Marshall Neilan
Mary Pickford, Milla Davenport, Percy Haswell, Fay Lemport, Mahlon Hamilton
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1919
Cecil B. DeMille
Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Lew Cody, Sylvia Ashton, Theodore Roberts
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1919
Joseph Henabery
Douglas Fairbanks, Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Sam Southern, Jay Dwiggins
Comedy / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1919
Charles Brabin
Theda Bara, Edward O'Connor, Jennie Dickerson, Raymond McKee, Marc McDermott
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1919
Bernard J. Durning
Shirley Mason, Ormi Hawley, Matt Moore, Frank O'Connor, T. Tamamoto, F. Wada
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2762
949
1919
David Kirkland
Constance Talmadge, Belle Daube, Jack Kane, Conway Tearle, Jeanette Horton
Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1919
Jerome Storm
Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert, Jay Morley, Otto Hoffman, Jack Nelson
Drama / Sports / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2099
639
1918
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Drama / Crime / Romance / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2234
695
1918
Marshall Neilan
Mary Pickford, Ida Waterman, Herbert Standing, Conway Tearle, Marcia Manon
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2519
835
1918
D.W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith, David Lloyd George, Sir Edward Grey, René Viviani
Drama / War / Epic / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1918
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Joan Marsh
Short / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1918
Cecil B. DeMille
Elliott Dexter, Florence Vidor, Sylvia Ashton, Wanda Hawley, Theodore Roberts
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1918
Allan Dwan
Douglas Fairbanks, Wanda Hawley, Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Katherine MacDonald
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1482
413
1917
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1926
571
1917
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2560
854
1917
Mauritz Stiller
Victor Sjöström, Karin Molander, Albin Lavén
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2696
925
1917
Fred Paul
Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Irene Vanbrugh, Henry S. Irving, Gerald du Maurier
Drama / Romance / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2696
925
1917
Edwin L. Hollywood, Charles Horan
Mae Marsh, Vernon Steele, Charles Eldridge, Wellington A. Playter
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1917
Maurice Tourneur
Mary Pickford, Matt Moore, Warren Cook, Kathryn Browne-Decker, Edward Roseman
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1917
Frank Lloyd
William Farnum, Jewel Carmen, Charles Clary, Herschel Mayall, Rosita Marstini
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1916
Lloyd Ingraham
Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, William H. Brown, Wilbur Higby, Loyola O'Connor
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1916
Charles Giblyn, Thomas H. Ince
Billie Burke, William H. Thompson, William Desmond, Charles Ray, Nona Thomas
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1916
Allan Dwan
Douglas Fairbanks, Sam De Grasse, Pomeroy Cannon, Joseph Singleton, Bessie Love
Romance / Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1916
Joseph De Grasse
C. Norman Hammond, Jay Belasco, Louise Lovely, Gretchen Lederer, Lon Chaney
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2866
1008
1916
Yevgeni Bauer
Vera Kholodnaya, Lydia Koreneva, Ivane Perestiani, Vitold Polonsky
Drama / Romance
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2696
925
1915
Christy Cabanne
Douglas Fairbanks, Seena Owen, William Lowery, Lillian Langdon, Monroe Salisbury
Adventure / Comedy / Western / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1915
Cecil M. Hepworth
Henry Ainley, J.V. Bryant, Stewart Rome, Alma Taylor, Chrissie White
Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2696
925
1915
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Ernest Van Pelt, Paddy McGuire, Lloyd Bacon
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1915
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Inslee, Marta Golden, Margie Reiger
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1915
Christy Cabanne
Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Cummings, Margery Wilson, Gladys Brockwell
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1915
Charles Brabin
Henry B. Walthall, Warda Howard, Ernest Maupain, Eleanor Thompson, Marian Skinner
Biography / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1915
Frank Hall Crane
Violet Horner, George Majeroni, Bertram Marburgh, Frances Nelson, Robert Warwick
Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
1835
539
1914
Giovanni Pastrone
Carolina Catena, Lidia Quaranta, Gina Marangoni, Dante Testa, Umberto Mozzato
Adventure / Drama / Epic / Romance
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2175
672
1914
Mack Sennett
Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Charles Bennett
Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2589
869
1914
Maurice Tourneur
Vivian Martin, Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett, Gyp Williams
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1914
Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille
Dustin Farnum, Raymond Hatton, Art Acord, Cecil B. DeMille, Cecilia de Mille
Drama / Western / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
984
1914
James Kirkwood
Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Marshall Neilan, Gertrude Robinson
Short / Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1913
Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford
James K. Hackett, Beatrice Beckley, David Torrence, Fraser Coalter
Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1913
Edwin August
Jeanie Macpherson, Lon Chaney, Robert Z. Leonard, Lawrence Peyton, Gertrude Short
Romance / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2762
949
1913
Alice Guy-Blaché
Fraunie Fraunholz, Marian Swayne
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1912
Henri Desfontaines, Louis Mercanton
Sarah Bernhardt, Lou Tellegen, Max Maxudian, Jean Angelo, Georges Charmeroy
Biography / Drama / Romance / History
France
French (Silent)
2696
925
1911
Barry O'Neil
George Lessey, Julia M. Taylor, Mrs. George W. Walters, David Andrada, Robert Halt
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1911
William Humphrey
Maurice Costello, Florence Turner, John Bunny, Norma Talmadge, William Humphrey
Short / Drama / Romance / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1910
Urban Gad
Asta Nielsen, Robert Dinesen, Poul Reumert, Hans Neergard, Emilie Sannom
Short / Drama / Romance
Denmark
Danish (Silent)
2696
925
1910
Harry Solter
Florence Lawrence, King Baggot
Short / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1910
Harry Solter
Florence Lawrence, King Baggot, Owen Moore
Short / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1910
Luigi Romano Borgnetto, Giovanni Pastrone
Luigi Romano Borgnetto, Giovanni Casaleggio, Madame Davesnes, Olga Giannini Novelli
Short / War / Romance
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2696
925
1910
Sidney Olcott
Sidney Olcott, Gene Gauntier, Thomas O'Connor, Arthur Donaldson, J.P. McGowan
Drama / Short / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1910
D.W. Griffith
Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Francis J. Grandon, Kate Bruce
Drama / Short / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1910
D.W. Griffith
Mary Pickford, Francis J. Grandon, Henry B. Walthall, Linda Arvidson
Romance / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2762
949
1909
D.W. Griffith
Florence Lawrence, John Compson, Arthur V. Johnson
Short / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1906
Edwin S. Porter
Kitty O'Neil, Walter Griswoll, H.L. Bascomb, W.R. Floyd, E.M. Leslie, N.B. Clarke
Short / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2696
925
1905
J. Stuart Blackton
Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, J. Barney Sherry
Adventure / Short / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
