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

2004 (200 movies)

[[3]] 13 Going on 30 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 2046 [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] 3-Iron [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 50 First Dates [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] 9 Songs [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Christmas Carol: The Musical
[[3]] A Cinderella Story [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Dirty Shame [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Good Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Home at the End of The World [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Love Song for Bobby Long [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] A Separate Peace
[[3]] A Very Long Engagement [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ae Fond Kiss... [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] After the Sunset [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Alexander [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] All the Ships at Sea [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Appleseed [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Around the World in 80 Days
[[1]] The Assassination of Richard Nixon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Aviator [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] AVP: Alien vs. Predator [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Balto III: Wings of Change [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Banlieue 13 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Before Sunset [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Before the Fall
[[3]] Being Julia [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blade: Trinity [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blessed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Bourne Supremacy [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bratz the Video: Starrin' & Stylin' [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bride and Prejudice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bring It on Again
[[2]] The Butterfly Effect [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Caribe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Catwoman [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cellular [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Christmas with the Kranks [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Chronicles of Riddick [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Closer [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Collateral [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Confessions of Teenage Drama Queen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Connie and Carla
[[3]] Corpses [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Crash [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Creep [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Crimes of Fashion [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cube Zero
[[3]] D.E.B.S. [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Daniel the Wizard [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dawn of the Dead [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Day After Tomorrow [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dead Leaves [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dead Man's Shoes
[[3]] Dear Frankie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Der Untergang (Downfall) [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Door in the Floor [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Double Dare
[[1]] Duck Season [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Edukators [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ella Enchanted
[[2]] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eulogy [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] EuroTrip [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Final Cut [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Finding Neverland [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Flight of the Phoenix
[[2]] G.O.R.A. [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Garden State [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Garfield [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghost Cat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gladiatress [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Grudge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hana and Alice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl's Moving Castle) [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] He Was Cool (Geunomeun meoshiteotda) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Head-On
[[1]] Hellboy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Holy Girl
[[3]] Home on the Range [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hotel Rwanda [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] House of D
[[3]] House of Voices (Saint Ange) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Heart Huckabees [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] I, Robot [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Immortal (Ad Vitam) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] In Good Company
[[3]] In my country
[[3]] In Search of Santa [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Incredibles [4 review(s) available] [13 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Innocence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Iron Jawed Angels [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jennifer's Shadow [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Jersey Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kill Bill: Vol. 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kinsey [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Kung Fu Hustle [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ladies in Lavender [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Layer Cake
[[3]] Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
[[3]] The Librarian: Quest for the Spear [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lion King 1 1/2
[[2]] M. Kumaran S/O Mahalakshmi [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Machinist [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Magyar vandor
[[3]] Mango Kiss [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Maria Full of Grace [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Marseille [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mean Girls [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Meet the Fockers
[[2]] Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Million Dollar Baby [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mindhunters [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Miracle [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Motorcycle Diaries [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mulan II [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] MXP: Most Extreme Primate [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Summer of Love
[[1]] Mysterious Skin [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Napoleon Dynamite [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] National Treasure [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Nemmeno il destino
[[3]] New York Minute [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nina [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Nochnoy dozor (Night Watch) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] North and South [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Notebook [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Notre musique
[[2]] Ocean's Twelve [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] One Point O
[[3]] Or
[[1]] Palindromes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Passion of the Christ [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Perfect Score [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Phantom of the Opera [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Place Promised in Our Early Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pokemon the Movie: Destiny Deoxys [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Polar Express [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Primer [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Prince and Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Punisher
[[3]] Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Raise Your Voice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Raising Helen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ray [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Resident Evil: Apocalypse [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Romasanta [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Saved! [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Saving Face [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Saw [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Say Yes Quickly
[[3]] Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sea Inside [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Secret Window [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Seed of Chucky [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Shark Tale [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shaun of the Dead [8 comment(s) available]
[[2]] She Hate Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shimotsuma monogatari (Kamikaze Girls) [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shrek 2 [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Shutter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sideways [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Skeleton Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sleepover [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Soul Plane [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spanglish
[[3]] Speak [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Spider-Man 2 [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Spirit of Jeet Kune Do [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Stage Beauty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Stepford Wives [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Stop Mom Theresa!
[[3]] Stuck in the Suburbs
[[3]] Swades [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Swing Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Taking Lives [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tales From The Crapper
[[3]] Taxi [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Team America: World Police [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Terkel i knibe [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Terminal
[[3]] They Came Back [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Third Society [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Three... Extremes [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.

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Recent activity

Currently 10664 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2025-12-06 00:08: [[1]] Playdate (2025)
2025-12-05 03:13: [[3]] Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025)
2025-12-04 10:52: [[3]] Vesper (2022)
2025-12-02 21:13: [[2]] In Your Dreams (2025)
2025-11-30 22:24: [[1]] Nuremberg (2025)

The five latest comments were on:

2025-12-10 15:42: [[2]] Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
2025-12-08 23:23: [[3]] Zootopia 2 (2025)
2025-12-08 19:07: [[0]] Mr. (1967)
2025-12-05 03:13: [[3]] Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025)
2025-12-04 10:52: [[3]] Vesper (2022)

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 10664 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

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Women & Hollywood

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