silent film cadets fall in love with same woman

On the eve of the Great War, a cavalry captain who despises the opposite sex falls in love with a wealthy young lady.

In the 1850s twin girls fall in love with the same young man, and must struggle with their feelings once he goes off to fight in the Civil War.

The 1940's: A young cadet drafted to war and a woman drafted to poverty both struggle to find their identities against the hardships and villains of the day in this sentimental tribute to the bygone era of silent film.

A silent film following two college students that meet and go on a date.

Monty meets an actress from a 1939 movie who looks exactly like she did then, complete with a black and white hue, specks of dust and vertical scratches throughout her face and body.

During WWI, two men vie for the attention of the same woman.

In 1930, a young film projectionist becomes spellbound by the mysterious girl in the front row.

This documentary tells the story of the passionate and thwarted loves of four actresses who were stars in their times. Lya de Putti, the star of Phantom by F.W. Murnau (1922) and Variété (1935) by E.A. Dupont, loved her profession but died when she failed to make the transition to the talkies. Mireille Balin, irresistibly seductive with Gabin in Lady Killer (1937) paid dearly for her love affair with a German officer during the Occupation. Belinda Lee, the English actress who became a star at Cinecittà and a mainstay of la dolce vita, died shortly after her separation from the Prince Orsini, one of the great names of the Italian aristocracy. And Laura Antonelli, the star of Malizia and a long-time companion of Jean-Paul Belmondo, who did not survive her breakup with the last love of her life. Stars, celebrities and adored, but women above all…

silent film with Lina Cavalieri

1926: While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After an emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip on reality and, while hallucinating, reexperiences his life in Hollywood from - as a silent film shown at a movie palace, the magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion. Dubbed "The Great Lover" around the world, Valentino plays dashing and virile Sheiks on the screen and drives his female audience into hysteria. However, his private life is a complete failure - the Sheik cannot satisfy even his own domineering wife. Snapping back to reality, Valentino finds himself abandoned, alone and stricken with illness. Pam, a young deaf-mute Valentino's fan, who works as a nurses' aid at the hospital, will show the God of Love for the first time in his life what love can truly mean.