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

[[3]] Christmas Is Here Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Christmas Under Wraps [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Christmas with Jerks [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Christmas with the Kranks [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Christopher Robin [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Chronicle [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [7 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Chronicles of Riddick [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Chun gwong cha sit (Happy Together) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Chungking Express [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Chupa [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ciao
[[3]] Cici
[[3]] The Cider House Rules [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cigarette Ki Tarah [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cimarron [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cinderella [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cinderella [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cinderella [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cinderella [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cinderella [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Cinderella Man [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cinema Paradiso [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Circle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Circle of Friends
[[3]] The Circle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Circle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Circumstance [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Circus [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Citadel
[[1]] Citizen Kane [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Citizen [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Citizenfour
[[3]] City Lights [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] City of Angels [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] City of Ember
[[1]] City of God [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The City of Lost Children [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] City of Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The City of the Dead [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The City of Your Final Destination [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] City Slickers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Civil War [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] CJ7 (Changjiang 7 hao) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Claire's Knee [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Clambake [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Clan of the Cave Bear [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Clara [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clash by Night
[[3]] Clash of the Santas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clash of the Titans [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clash of the Titans [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Class of 1999
[[1]] Cleaner [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Clear and Present Danger [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Clear History [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clementine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cleo from 5 to 7
[[1]] Cleopatra [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Cleopatra [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cleopatra [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cleopatra Jones [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clerks II [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Clerks III [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Clerks. [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Click [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Client List [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] The Client [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cliffhanger [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clifford [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Clifford The Big Red Dog [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Climax [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Clinic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Clock
[[3]] Clockwatchers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Close [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Close [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Close Encounters of the Third Kind [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Close-Up [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Closed Circuit [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Closer [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Closet Land [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cloud 9 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cloud Atlas [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cloudburst [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clouds of Sils Maria [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clover [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cloverfield
[[3]] The Cloverfield Paradox [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clown [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clue [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clueless [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coach Carter
[[3]] Coal Miner's Daughter [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Coast Guard [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cobra [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cocaine Bear [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cocalero
[[0]] Cockatoo Flying [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Cockneys vs Zombies [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cocktail [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coco [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coco avant Chanel [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coco Chanel [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
[[2]] The Cocoanuts [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] CODA [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Code 8 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Code Name Banshee [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Code Name: Tiger
[[3]] Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coffee and Cigarettes [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Coffy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coherence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Coin Heist [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cold Comfort Farm [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cold Mountain [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cold Pursuit [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Cold Skin
[[1]] Cold Souls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cold War [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Colette
[[1]] Collateral [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Collateral Beauty [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] College Road Trip
[[1]] Colombiana
[[1]] The Colony [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Colony [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Color of Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Color Out of Space [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Color Purple [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Color Purple
[[0]] Colossal [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Colossus: The Forbin Project [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Columbus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Combat Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Come and See
[[3]] Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Come Dance with Me! [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Come to Daddy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Come to the Stable [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Comebacks [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Comes a Bright Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Comet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Comicos [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coming 2 America [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coming to America [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Command Decision
[[1]] Commando
[[1]] Comment c'est loin
[[3]] The Commitments
[[3]] Como agua para chocolate [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Como Esquecer [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Comoara [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Company of Wolves [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Company You Keep
[[3]] Compliance [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Computer Chess [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Comrade X
[[2]] Con Air [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Conan the Barbarian [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Conan the Barbarian [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Conan the Destroyer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Conann [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Concert [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Concrete Utopia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Concussion [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Concussion [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Condemned [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Conducta [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coneheads [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Confess, Fletch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Confessions (Kokuhaku) [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Confessions of a Shopaholic [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Confessions of Teenage Drama Queen [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Confidentially Yours [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Conformist [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Congo [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Congress [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Conjuring 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Conjuring [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Connie and Carla
[[0]] Connie Gomper & the Pack [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Conquest
[[0]] The Consequence of Feminism [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Conspiracy of Hearts [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Conspiracy Theory [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Conspirator [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Constant Gardener [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Constantine [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Constantine: City of Demons [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Contact [4 comment(s) available]
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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 10408 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-10-05 22:31: [[3]] Lullaby (2022)
2024-10-03 16:09: [[3]] The Harry Hill Movie (2013)
2024-09-30 20:46: [[3]] Abigail (2024)
2024-09-29 20:33: [[3]] The Planters Plantation (2022)
2024-09-28 19:17: [[3]] Giant (1956)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-10-06 11:01: [[3]] Sophie's Choice (1982)
2024-10-06 08:10: [[3]] Inside Out 2 (2024)
2024-10-06 08:06: [[3]] Lady Parts (2024)
2024-10-05 22:31: [[3]] Lullaby (2022)
2024-10-04 12:02: [[0]] ()

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 10408 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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