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

2023 (7 movies)

[[3]] Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cocaine Bear [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Infinity Pool
[[1]] Les choses simples [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Missing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pathaan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Reflect [1 comment(s) available]

2022 (153 movies)

[[3]] The 355 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Fada do Lar [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Man Called Otto [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Adam Project [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] All the old knives
[[1]] Allra síðasta veiðiferðin
[[2]] Ambulance [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] As bestas [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Athena [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Avatar: The Way Of Water [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babylon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bad Guys [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Badhaai Do
[[3]] The Banshees of Inisherin [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbarian [20 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Batman [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Beavis and Butt-Head do the Universe [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Blackbird [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blade of the 47 Ronin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blasted [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Blonde [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bob’s Burgers Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bodies Bodies Bodies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bones and All
[[1]] Brahmastra Part One Shiva [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Broker [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bros [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bubble [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bullet Train [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Burning Days (Kurak Günler) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Catherine Called Birdy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Catwoman: Hunted [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cici
[[1]] Clerks III [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Code Name Banshee [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Crush [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dark Glasses [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Darlings
[[3]] Death on the Nile
[[1]] Deep Woods [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Disenchanted [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Do Revenge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Don't Worry Darling [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] EL Agua
[[0]] El cuarto pasajero
[[1]] Elvis [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emergency
[[3]] Emily the Criminal [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Enola Holmes 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Everything Everywhere All at Once [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Cut [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fire Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flux Gourmet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fresh [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gangubai Kathiawadi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gone in the Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Good luck to you, Leo Grande [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Good Nurse [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Gray Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Halloween Kills [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hocus Pocus 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The In Between [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Incroyable mais vrai
[[3]] The Invitation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jurassic World Dominion [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Kimi [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] L'autre rive [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La nuit du 12 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Legend of Maula Jatt [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Lightyear [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Look Both Ways [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lost City [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love and Gelato [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Mad God [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Man From Toronto [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Matilda the Musical [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Me Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Menu [40 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Metal Lords [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Minions: the rise of gru [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Morbius [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Movie Star
[[3]] Mrs Harris Goes to Paris [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Grandfather's Demons [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] My Policeman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nanny [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nayola [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Exit [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Nope [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Northman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Not Okay [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Novelist's Film (So-seol-ga-ui Yeong-hwa) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Fine Morning [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Piece: Film Red [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paper Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pearl [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pinocchio [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Prey [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Purple Heart [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Puss in Boots: The Last Wish [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Qala [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Remains of the Wind [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Rodrigo Ortiz Vinholo Film
[[3]] The Royal Treatment
[[2]] RRR [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ruido (Noise) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Samartian [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Save the Cinema [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scream [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sea Beast [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Senior Year [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Smile [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sonic the Hedgehog 2 [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Spiderhead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spirited [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Strange World [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Stranger [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Terrifier 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] the swimmers
[[3]] the wonder
[[0]] Thirteen Lives [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thor: Love and Thunder [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Top Gun: Maverick [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tout le monde aime Jeanne [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Triangle of Sadness [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Turning Red [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Umma [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Uncharted [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Weekend Away [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Weird: The Al Yankovic Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wendell & Wild [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] What's Love Got to Do with It
[[3]] Where the Crawdads Sing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] White Noise [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Willow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Woman King [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X
[[3]] Your Christmas or Mine? [1 comment(s) available]

2021 (40 movies)

[[0]] #Nofilter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 13 Minutes
[[3]] 7 Women and a Murder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Classic Horror Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] After We Fell [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Afterlife of the Party [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ajeeb Daastaans [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] America: The Motion Picture [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Army of the Dead [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Army of Thieves [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Around the World in 80 Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Back to the Outback [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Being The Ricardos [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Belfast [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Belle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bem Bom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Benedetta
[[1]] Black Box [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Black Widow [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Boiling Point [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Borga [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bull [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Card Counter [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Cherry
[[3]] Cinderella [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] CODA [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coming 2 America [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cousins [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cruella [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Cyrano [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dark Web: Cicada 3301
[[1]] Dear Evan Hansen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Don’t Look Up [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Drive My Car [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Dry [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dune [28 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 9908 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2023-02-28 10:43: [[1]] Les choses simples (2023)
2023-02-24 23:06: [[3]] Cocaine Bear (2023)
2023-02-21 02:53: [[1]] Flaming Star (1960)
2023-02-20 23:54: [[2]] G.I. Blues (1960)
2023-02-20 07:28: [[2]] Love Me Tender (1956)

The five latest comments were on:

2023-03-22 12:55: [[3]] A Date for Mad Mary (2016)
2023-03-22 00:45: [[3]] Double Trouble (1967)
2023-03-21 22:17: [[3]] Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures (2022)
2023-03-21 14:31: [[1]] My Cousin Vinny (1992)
2023-03-21 00:04: [[1]] Spinout (1966)

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 9908 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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