Bechdel Test Movie List

/bech·del test/ n.
1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man

Movie list

2011 (19 movies)

[[3]] What's Your Number [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] When Pigs Have Wings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Where Do We Go Now? [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Whisperer in Darkness [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Win Win [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Winnie the Pooh [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Without Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Woman [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Wuthering Heights
[[3]] X-Men: First Class [24 comment(s) available]
[[1]] xxxHolic Ro Adayume [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yelling to the Sky [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You Instead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You're Next [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Young Adult [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Your Highness
[[3]] Your Sister's Sister
[[2]] Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara [1 comment(s) available]

2010 (181 movies)

[[3]] 'Tamara Drewe' [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 127 Hours [8 comment(s) available]
[[1]] 13 Assassins [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 16 Wishes [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 18 comidas
[[1]] 22 Bullets / L'immortel
[[3]] 30 Days of Night: Dark Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 4.3.2.1
[[3]] A Bag of Hammers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Little Help [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Marine Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Nightmare on Elm Street [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The A-Team [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Abel
[[2]] The Accursed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Aftershock
[[3]] Alice in Wonderland [5 review(s) available]
[[3]] All About Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alpha and Omega [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Amador
[[0]] The Amazing Bulk
[[1]] The American [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] An Invisible Sign
[[3]] And Soon the Darkness
[[1]] Animal Kingdom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Another Year [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Arrietty [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Back-up Plan [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Bal [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Band Baaja Barat
[[3]] Bandage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie in a Mermaid Tale [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barney's Version [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Basilicata Coast to Coast
[[1]] Batman: Under the Red Hood [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] BearCity [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bedevilled [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Beginners [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Beyond the Black Rainbow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Big Tits Dragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bill Cunningham New York
[[1]] Biutiful [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Black Swan [1 review(s) available] [34 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Black Venus
[[2]] Blue Valentine [1 review(s) available] [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Book of Eli [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Boy [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Boy Wonder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bratz: Pampered Petz [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Break Ke Baad [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Browncoats: Redemption [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Buried [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Burlesque [1 review(s) available] [8 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ca$h [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cairo 678 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Carancho
[[1]] Casino Jack [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Catfish [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Cemetery Junction [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Centurion [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ceremony [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Certified Copy [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Charlie St. Cloud [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Chasing Legends
[[2]] Chico & Rita
[[1]] Chongqing Blues [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clash of the Titans [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Client List [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] The Clinic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Clock
[[3]] Como Esquecer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Confessions (Kokuhaku) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Conspirator [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Conviction [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cop Out [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Corridor
[[3]] Country Strong [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Crazies [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cyrus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Das letzte Schweigen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Date Night [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Daydream Nation [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dear John [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Debt [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Denizen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Despicable Me [1 review(s) available] [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Devil [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Diary of a Wimpy Kid [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Diciotto anni dopo [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dinner for Schmucks [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Disciple [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Don't Be Afraid of the Dark [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dos hermanos
[[1]] Due Date
[[0]] Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
[[3]] Easy A [1 review(s) available] [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eat Me! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eat, Pray, Love [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Edge of Darkness [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] El dios de madera
[[3]] Elektra Luxx [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Elena Undone [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Elle s'appelait Sarah (Sarah's key)
[[3]] Enthiran
[[0]] Essential Killing
[[1]] Everything Must Go [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Exit Through the Gift Shop [10 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Expendables
[[0]] The Experiment [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
[[3]] Fair Game
[[3]] Fanny, Annie & Danny
[[0]] Fantasmas [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Faster [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Feeding Frenzy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fighter [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] First Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flipped [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Food Stamped
[[3]] For 80 Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Colored Girls
[[1]] Four Lions [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Four-Faced Liar
[[3]] Frankie and Alice [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Frozen [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gantz [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Get Him To The Greek [2 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Ghost Writer [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Going Postal [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Going the Distance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Good Witch's Gift [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Great Vazquez
[[0]] Green Zone [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Greenberg [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Grown Ups [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gunless [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hairdresser [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Halo: Legends [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Happythankyoumoreplease [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 [10 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Heartbeats [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Heavy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hollywood Complex [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hot Tub Time Machine [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Housemaid [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How Do You Know [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] How I ended this summer
[[3]] How to Train Your Dragon [2 review(s) available] [20 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Howl
[[1]] The Human Resources Manager
[[0]] Hunter Prey [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Hunter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hypothermia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Am Love
[[1]] I Saw the Devil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Will Follow [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Illusionist [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Im Schatten [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Incendies
[[3]] Inception [1 review(s) available] [38 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Insidious [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Into Our Own Hands [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ip Man 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Iron Man 2 [3 review(s) available] [32 comment(s) available]
[[1]] It's Kind of a Funny Story [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Jack and the Beanstalk [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Jack goes boating [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Jo's Boy
[[3]] Jucy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Just Wright [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kaboom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Karate Kid [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kick-Ass [7 review(s) available] [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Kids Are All Right [3 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Killer Inside Me
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About

The Bechdel Test, or Bechdel-Wallace Test, sometimes called the Mo Movie Measure or Bechdel Rule is a simple test which names the following three criteria: (1) it has to have at least two women in it, who (2) who talk to each other, about (3) something besides a man. The test was popularized by Alison Bechdel's comic, the name of which Google won't let me put on this page for inciting hate, in a 1985 strip called The Rule. For a nice video introduction to the subject please check out The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies on feministfrequency.com.

If you need access to the raw data, check out the docs for the api.

Add a movie

If you want to add a movie to this list, please go to the Add a movie page and fill in the form. If you disagree with a rating, please leave a comment on the appropriate movie page instead.

Recent activity

Currently 10377 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-07-31 19:43: [[3]] Fong Sai Yuk (1993)
2024-07-30 16:22: [[1]] North Hollywood (2021)
2024-07-29 15:58: [[3]] Double Down South (2022)
2024-07-29 01:30: [[1]] A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
2024-07-28 10:39: [[3]] Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-09-04 23:57: [[1]] Interview with the Vampire (1994)
2024-09-04 23:16: [[1]] Spy × Family Code: White (2023)
2024-09-03 05:30: [[1]] The Square (2017)
2024-09-01 02:54: [[3]] Mean Girls (2024)
2024-09-01 01:52: [[3]] The Bells of St Mary's (1945)

The list

The list you see to the left of this text consists of an icon with the result of the tests (explained below), the title (clicking it will take you to its details page, where you can find the reviews and comments) and finally two optional icons, also explained below. Clicking the icon before the title will take you to the movie's IMDb page.

For the sake of practicality, I've taken the liberty to read the first criterion as only named female characters counting.

There are currently 10377 movies listed. Some stats and graphs are available. Be sure to check out Ten graphics on the Bechdel test on Reddit for more graphs.

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Links

About the Bechdel test

Wikipedia: Bechdel test

The Bechdel Test: What It Is, And Why It Matters

TV Tropes Wiki: The Bechdel Test

Articles

The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood's Exclusion of Women

The Female Character Flowchart

Memo to all women: No half for you in Hollywood

Cartoons are more than just entertainment

The 'Bechdel Rule,' Defining Pop-Culture Character

Review sites

Women & Hollywood

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