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

2014 (200 movies)

[[0]] '71 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 12 Dog Days Till Christmas [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 22 Jump St [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 3 Days to Kill [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] 300: Rise of an Empire [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 5 Flights Up [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Brilliant Young Mind
[[2]] A coup sur [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Long Way Down [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Million Ways to Die in the West [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Most Violent Year [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Most Wanted Man
[[3]] A Noite da Virada [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Walk Among the Tombstones [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] About a Girl
[[2]] About Last Night
[[1]] The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Agatha Raisin: The Quiche of Death [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alex of Venice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alles Inklusive [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Aloft [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Alpha House [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Amazing Spider-Man 2 [11 comment(s) available]
[[1]] American Sniper [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Amour fou [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anatomy of a Love Seen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Annabelle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Annie [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Appropriate Behavior [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ardor
[[3]] As Above So Below [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Asian School Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ask Me Anything [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Automata
[[3]] Avis de mistral
[[1]] Awesome Asian Bad Guys [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Babadook [10 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Bag Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie and the Secret Door [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie: The Pearl Princess [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barefoot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Batman: Assault on Arkham [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Before I Go to Sleep [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Before We Go [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Begin Again [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Belle [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Better Living Through Chemistry
[[3]] Beyond the Lights [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Eyes [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Big Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Hero 6 [18 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Stone Gap [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Birdman [7 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Black Sea [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blended [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Book of Life [9 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Boxtrolls [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Boy Meets Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Boyhood [13 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Brick Mansions [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cake
[[2]] Calvary [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Camp Takota [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Captain America: The Winter Soldier [45 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cesar Chavez [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Chef [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Christmas Under Wraps [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Citizenfour
[[3]] Cloud 9 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clouds of Sils Maria [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clown [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Comet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Conducta [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cooties [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Court [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Creep [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cuban Fury [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cut Bank
[[3]] Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
[[1]] The Damned Thing
[[3]] Dark Dungeons [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dark Was the Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Date and Switch [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes [13 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dead Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dead Snow 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dear White People [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Deliver Us From Evil
[[0]] Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Der Kleine Medicus - Geheimnisvolle Mission im Korper [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Der Kreis
[[3]] The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Divergent [1 review(s) available] [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dohee-ya [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dolares de arena (Sand Dollars)
[[3]] Dolphin Tale 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dracula Untold [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Draft Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Drop [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dumb and Dumber 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dyke Hard
[[1]] Earth To Echo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] East Side Sushi [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eat with Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Edge of Tomorrow [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Effie Gray [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ei Kiitos [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ein Geschenk der Gotter
[[2]] Ek Villain [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] El Niño [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] El patrón, radiografía de un crimen
[[3]] Electricity
[[1]] En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron
[[1]] Endless Love
[[1]] The Equalizer [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Escobar: Paradise Lost
[[3]] Every Secret Thing [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Exodus: Gods and Kings [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Expendables 3 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Extirpador de Idolatrias [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Falling [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fault in Our Stars [14 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Faults [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Feher isten [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fields of the Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Flash
[[3]] Flowers in the Attic [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fort Tilden [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Foxcatcher [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Frame [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Frank [6 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Frozen in Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fury [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Gabby Douglas Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gekijouban Hakuouki: Dainishou shikon soukyou [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Get On Up [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girlhood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girltrash: All Night Long
[[3]] The Giver [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] God Help the Girl [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] God's Not Dead [9 comment(s) available]
[[1]] God's Pocket [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Godzilla [13 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Golden Era [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gone Girl [14 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Good Lie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Good People [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gotham [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Grace of Monaco [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Grand Budapest Hotel [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Guardians of the Galaxy [43 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gueros [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] H. [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Haider [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Happy Christmas [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Happy Valley [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hard Corner: Le Film
[[2]] Heaven Is For Real [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hector and the Search for Happiness [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hercules [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Highway [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hits [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Homesman [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Horrible Bosses 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Housebound [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Houses October Built [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How old are you?
[[3]] How to Steal a Dog / Gae-leul hoom-chi-neun wan-byeok-han bang-beob [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] How to Train Your Dragon 2 [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hundred-Foot Journey [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 [14 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hungry Hearts [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] I Call It Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Origins [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] I, Frankenstein [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ich seh, Ich seh [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] If I Stay [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Imitation Game [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Courtyard [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Inbetweeners 2
[[3]] Infinitely Polar Bear [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Inherent Vice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Innocence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Interstellar [17 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Interview [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Into the Storm [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Into the Woods
[[3]] Into the Woods [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It Follows [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jacky in the kingdom of women [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jane the Virgin [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Jersey Boys [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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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 10286 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-04-14 06:16: [[3]] Wicked Little Letters (2023)
2024-04-09 11:12: [[1]] Imaginary (2024)
2024-04-08 14:32: [[1]] My Fault (2023)
2024-04-05 23:55: [[1]] Visitor Q (2001)
2024-04-05 09:38: [[3]] Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-04-19 13:14: [[1]] Close (2022)
2024-04-18 08:16: [[0]] The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
2024-04-18 07:03: [[3]] Dune: Part Two (2024)
2024-04-17 21:32: [[0]] Io Capitano (2023)
2024-04-17 20:46: [[1]] The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

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 10286 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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