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

2024 (71 movies)

[[3]] A Little Family Drama
[[1]] A Quiet Place: Day One [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Abigail [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alien: Romulus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Am I OK? [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anora [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Argylle
[[3]] Babes
[[3]] Bad Boy: Ride Or Die [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Beating Hearth
[[3]] The Beekeeper [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beetlejuice Beetlejuice [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Bikeriders [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cabrini [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Challengers [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Civil War [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Damsel
[[3]] Dan Da Dan: First Encounter [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Deadpool & Wolverine [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Deliverance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Descendants: The Rise of Red [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Drive-Away Dolls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dune: Part Two [8 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dunki [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fall Guy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fly me to the moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gladiator II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Godzilla x Kong: New Empire [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Her story
[[3]] Heretic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hopeful [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Saw The TV Glow [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Imaginary [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inside Out 2 [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It ends with us [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Joker: Folie à Deux [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kalki 2898 AD
[[3]] Kinds of Kindness
[[1]] Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kung Fu Panda 4 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lady Parts [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Let go [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Lisa Frankenstein [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Look back [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Lies Bleeding [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] MaXXXine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mean Girls [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Megalopolis [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Monkey Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Queen of Villains [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Queer [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Red One [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Road House [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Seed of The Sacred Fig [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shaitaan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spellbound [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Substance [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tarot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Terrifier 3
[[1]] Transformers One [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Twisters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ullozhukku
[[3]] Upgraded [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Watchers
[[3]] We Live in Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wicked: Part 1 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

2023 (129 movies)

[[2]] 65 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Beautiful Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Air [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] All of us strangers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anatomie d'une chute [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anyone but you
[[1]] Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Are You There God? It's Me Margaret [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Astérix et Obélix: L'Empire du Milieu [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Asteroid City [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Living [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ballerina [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie [22 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Beau is Afraid
[[1]] BlackBerry [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blue Beetle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blue Eyed Samurai
[[1]] The Book of Clarence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bottoms [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Boy and The Heron [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Boys in the Boat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bricklayer [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Champions [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Chien de la casse [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Christmas with Jerks [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Chupa [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cocaine Bear [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Color Purple
[[3]] Conann [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Concrete Utopia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cora Bora
[[3]] The Creator [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Creed 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Daddio [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Swordsmith Village [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Elemental [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Equalizer 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evil Dead Rise [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Explanation For Everything [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fast X [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fingernails [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Five Nights at Freddy's [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flamin’ Hot [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Flash [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Four Daughters
[[3]] Fresh Kills
[[1]] The G [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ghosted [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Godzilla Minus One [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gran Turismo
[[3]] Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Happiness for Beginners
[[3]] Haunted Mansion [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heart of Stone [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Holdovers [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hypnotic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Hate You to Death [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] InCar [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Infinity Pool
[[2]] Insidious: The Red Door
[[3]] Invitation to a Murder [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Io Capitano [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Iron Claw [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It Lives Inside [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jawan [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Je verrai toujours vos visages [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Je'vida [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jules [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Killers of the Flower Moon [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Kuolleet lehdet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La chimera [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] La Sociedad de la Nieve [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Landscape with Invisible Hand [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Last Voyage of the Demeter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Leo
[[1]] Les choses simples [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Mermaid [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Liu lang di qiu 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Living Bad [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love in Taipei [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Marvels [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] May December [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Miracle Club [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Missing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] My Christmas Hero [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] My Fault
[[1]] Night of the Hunted
[[3]] Nimona [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Hard Feelings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhere [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The nun II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nyad [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Oppenheimer [1 review(s) available] [31 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Drawings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Past Lives [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pathaan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Perfect Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Perfect Find [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Polite Society [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Poor Things [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Portable Door [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Priest's Exorcist [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Quiz Lady [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Reality [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Red, White & Royal Blue [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Reflect [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
[[3]] Renfield [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Reptile [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Resident Evil: Death Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Royal Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Saltburn [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Saw X [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] SCREAM VI [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Second tour [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Slotherhouse [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Spy × Family Code: White [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spy Kids: Armageddon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Super Mario Bros. Movie [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tarla [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 10447 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-11-28 00:58: [[1]] Queer (2024)
2024-11-25 07:22: [[2]] Her story (2024)
2024-11-25 01:51: [[3]] Wicked: Part 1 (2024)
2024-11-23 21:24: [[1]] Gladiator II (2024)
2024-11-23 13:42: [[3]] Let go (2024)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-12-11 21:56: [[3]] Y2K (2024)
2024-12-09 23:04: [[3]] Turtles All The Way Down (2024)
2024-12-09 22:00: [[3]] Moana 2 (2024)
2024-12-09 02:28: [[3]] Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
2024-12-07 15:57: [[0]] Brother Bear (2003)

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 10447 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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