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

2002 (196 movies)

[[1]] 24 Hour Party People [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 25th Hour [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 28 Days Later... [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 8 femmes [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] 8 Mile
[[1]] A hidember
[[3]] A la folie... pas du tout
[[3]] A mi madre le gustan las mujeres
[[3]] A Ring of Endless Light [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Walk to Remember [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] About a Boy
[[1]] About Schmidt
[[3]] Adaptation [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Adventures of Pluto Nash [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ali G Indahouse [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] All or Nothing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Amen.
[[3]] American Psycho II: All American Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Antwone Fisher
[[3]] Apartment #5C [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Armitage: Dual Matrix [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Austin Powers in Goldmember
[[1]] Bad Company [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bang Bang You're Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Banger Sisters [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Barbie as Rapunzel [7 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Below [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ben & Arthur [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bend It Like Beckham [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Fat Liar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Girls Don't Cry [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Trouble [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Blade II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blue Crush [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Bourne Identity [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Brown Sugar
[[1]] Bungalow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cabin Fever [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cadet Kelly [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Carrie [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Catch Me If You Can [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Charlotte Sometimes
[[3]] Cheats
[[3]] Chicago [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] City of God [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Coast Guard [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Crossroads [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cube2: Hypercube [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cypher
[[1]] The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara) [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Death to Smoochy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] demonlover
[[3]] Devdas [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Die Another Day [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dirty Pretty Things [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dog Soldiers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dragonfly
[[1]] Drumline
[[3]] Dummy [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] El bonaerense [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Embrassez qui vous voudrez [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Enough [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Equilibrium [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Far from Heaven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Femme Fatale [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Frida [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Friday After Next
[[3]] Froid comme l'été (Cold as Summer) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Funny Ha Ha [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gangs of New York
[[0]] Gerry [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Get a Clue
[[3]] Ghost Ship [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Good Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hable con ella [Talk to Her] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Crimes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Room
[[3]] The Hot Chick [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hours [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Hunchback of Notre Dame II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hysterical Blindness [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] I Spy
[[0]] I'm with Lucy [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ice Age [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Igby Goes Down [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Importance of Being Earnest [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In My Skin [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Infernal Affairs [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Insomnia
[[3]] Intimate Stories [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Irreversible
[[3]] Is It College Yet? [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Jackass: The Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ju-on: The Grudge [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] K-19: The Widowmaker
[[3]] Life or Something Like It [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lilo and Stitch [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lilya 4-Ever [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Loenatik - De moevie
[[3]] The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [15 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Los lunes al sol
[[3]] Low-Flying Aircraft
[[3]] The Magdalene Sisters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Maggie and Annie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Maid in Manhattan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Marion Bridge [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Master of Disguise
[[3]] May
[[1]] Men in Black II
[[1]] Minority Report [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Moonlight Mile [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Morvern Callar [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Mothman Prophecies [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Mr Deeds [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Big Fat Greek Wedding [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Naqoyqatsi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Neko no ongaeshi (The cat returns) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] No Night Is Too Long
[[1]] One Hour Photo [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Panic Room [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Phone Booth
[[1]] The Pianist [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Planet of the Erotic Ape [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Powerpuff Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Punch-Drunk Love [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Queen of the Damned [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Quiet American [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rabbit-Proof Fence [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Rats [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Real Women Have Curves [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Red Dragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Reign of Fire
[[3]] Resident Evil [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Ring [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ripley's Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Road to Perdition [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rose Red [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Rules of Attraction [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] S1m0ne [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Santa Clause 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scooby-Doo [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Scorpion King
[[3]] Secretary [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Signs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Slap Her, She's French! [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Snow Dogs
[[1]] Solaris
[[2]] Spider
[[1]] Spider-Man
[[1]] Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spun [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Star Trek: Nemesis [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Sum of All Fears [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sweet Home Alabama [7 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sweet Sixteen [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sweetest Thing [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tan de repente
[[3]] Teknolust [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ten [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] They [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Time Changer [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Time Machine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tipping the Velvet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tomie: Saishuu-sho - kindan no kajitsu [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Transporter
[[3]] Treasure Planet [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tru Confessions
[[3]] Tuck Everlasting
[[0]] The Tuxedo
[[3]] The Twilight Samurai [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Two Weeks Notice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Undercover Brother [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Unfaithful [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Vagina Monologues [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Valami Amerika
[[3]] Waking Up in Reno [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] We Were Soldiers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Whale Rider [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] White Oleander [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wild Thornberrys Movie [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Windtalkers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] WiseGirls
[[1]] xXx [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ying xiong (Hero) [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Yossi & Jagger [1 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 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:

2024-08-29 03:32: [[0]] The Boondock Saints (1999)
2024-08-28 16:26: [[1]] Elvis (2022)
2024-08-28 16:24: [[1]] Elvis (2022)
2024-08-27 18:42: [[2]] Team America: World Police (2004)
2024-08-27 12:26: [[3]] The Crow (1994)

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.

You can also view the list sorted by title, date added (latest first), number of comments, number of reviews or rating.
An RSS feed[RSS icon] is also available, listing the latest 50 movies added to the list.

You can view just the Movies in the IMDb Top 250 and last but not least, you can search the list.

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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