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

2012 (159 movies)

[[1]] Liberal Arts [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Life of Pi [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lincoln [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lizzie Bennet Diaries [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lola Versus
[[1]] Looper  [2 review(s) available] [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lorax [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lords of Salem [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lore [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lucky One [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Magic Mike  [2 review(s) available] [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Magic of Belle Isle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Making of a Lady [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Man on a Ledge [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Man with the Iron Fists [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Master [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Men in Black III [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mental [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mine Games [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mirror Mirror [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Monster High: Escape from Skull SHores [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Monster High: Ghoul's Rule
[[3]] Moonrise Kingdom [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Morgana [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mosquita y Mari [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Much Ado About Nothing [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Neighboring Sounds [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] No
[[3]] Not Fade Away [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Now Is Good [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Occupants [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Odd Life of Timothy Green [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Oh Boy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Okami kodomo no ame to yuki [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One for the Money [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Out in the Dark
[[3]] The Pact [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Papadopoulos & Sons [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Paperboy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paradies: Liebe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paranormal Activity 4 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] ParaNorman [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parental Guidance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paris-Manhattan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Passion [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paulette [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] People Like Us [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Perks of Being a Wallflower [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Pirates! Band of Misfits [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pitch Perfect [8 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Place Beyond the Pines [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Populaire [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Possession [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Premium Rush [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Price Check [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Privacy
[[1]] Project X [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Prometheus  [1 review(s) available] [16 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Quartet [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Qwerty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Radio Rebel [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Raven [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Red Dawn [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Red Tails [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Renoir [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Resident Evil: Retribution [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rise of the Animals [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rise of the Guardians [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Robot & Frank [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rock Jocks [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rock of Ages
[[3]] Ruby Sparks [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ruroni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sadako 3D [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Safe [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Safety Not Guaranteed [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sapphires  [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sassy Pants [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Savages [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Save the Date [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Seasoning House [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Seeking a Friend for the End of the World [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Sessions [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Seven Psychopaths [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shadow Dancer [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shelter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sightseers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Silence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Silent Hill: Revelation 3D [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Silver Linings Playbook [9 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Sinister [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Skinny [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Skyfall [26 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Sleepwalk With Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Smashed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Smiley [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Snackbar [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Snow Queen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Snow White [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Snow White and the Huntsman [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] So Undercover [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sparkle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spring Breakers [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Starlet [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stars Above [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Steel Magnolias [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Step Up Revolution [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stories We Tell
[[3]] Strike Witches - The Movie [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Struck by Lightning [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stuck in Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Superman vs. The Elite [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Supporting Characters [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sushi Girl
[[3]] The Swing
[[3]] Tabu [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Tad: The Lost Explorer [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Taken 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Tall Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Tango libre [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Tears of Steel [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ted [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] That's My Boy
[[3]] Think Like a Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] This Is 40 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] This Means War [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tiger Eyes [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tinkerbell and the Secret of the Wings [9 comment(s) available]
[[2]] To Rome With Love [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] To the Wonder [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Total Recall [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Travelling Salesman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Underworld: Awakening [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] V/H/S [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vamps [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Vattnet
[[0]] Violine
[[3]] The Vow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wanderlust [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Warpaint [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Watch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] What Maisie Knew [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] What to Expect When You're Expecting
[[3]] White Alligator [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Why Stop Now?
[[1]] Wireboy
[[1]] The Woman in Black [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Women's Day (Dzien kobiet) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Won't Back Down [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Words [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Would You Rather [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Wrath of the Titans [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wreck-It Ralph [14 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zero Dark Thirty  [1 review(s) available] [26 comment(s) available]
[[3]] [REC]3 Genesis [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.

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Recent activity

Currently 10251 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-03-02 03:15: [[3]] Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate (2024)
2024-02-29 03:37: [[3]] Dune: Part Two (2024)
2024-02-28 14:00: [[2]] Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
2024-02-26 12:55: [[3]] Mermaid (2007)
2024-02-25 11:37: [[1]] Flamin’ Hot (2023)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-03-28 15:53: [[3]] The Upside of Anger (2005)
2024-03-27 10:33: [[1]] Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
2024-03-25 11:41: [[3]] Road House (2024)
2024-03-25 01:55: [[3]] Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
2024-03-24 06:26: [[1]] Clara (2018)

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 10251 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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