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

2022 (31 movies)

[[3]] Strange World [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Stranger [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Suzume [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Talk To Me [1 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 [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Top Gun: Maverick [10 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 [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Uncharted [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Weekend Away [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Weird: The Al Yankovic Story [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wendell & Wild [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Whale [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] What's Love Got to Do with It [1 comment(s) available]
[[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]] Women Talking [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X
[[3]] Your Christmas or Mine? [1 comment(s) available]

2021 (169 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]
[[1]] After Yang [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]
[[1]] Clifford The Big Red Dog [1 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 [2 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 [2 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 [30 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Encanto [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Escape Room: Tournament of Champions [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eternals [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Every Time a Bell Rings [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Everything Will Change
[[3]] Eye of the Beholder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Eyes of Tammy Faye [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] F9 - The Fast Saga [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Farha [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fatherhood
[[3]] Fear Street: Part One - 1994 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Finding 'Ohana [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flashback [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] France [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Free Guy [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The French Dispatch [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gûzen to sôzô [Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghostbusters: Afterlife [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gibi
[[3]] Godzilla Vs Kong [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Good on Paper [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Great Freedom [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Green Knight [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Guilty [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gunpowder Milkshake [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Harder They Fall [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hating Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hear Me Out [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] High Ground [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hill Where Lionesses Roar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hiraeth [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
[[2]] House of Gucci [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Heights [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Influencer [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Injustice [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Inmersión [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The innocents [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Inside [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jolt [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Judas and The Black Messiah [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Jujutsu Kaisen 0 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jungle Cruise [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Kate [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] King Richard [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The King's Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Kissing Booth 3
[[0]] La Luna, Tomasico y mi abuela [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Lamb [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Last Duel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Last Night in Soho [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Licorice Pizza [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Things [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lost Daughter [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Love Hard [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Luca [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Madame Claude [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Malignant [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Mandela Catalouge
[[2]] The Many Saints of Newark [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Marksman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mass [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Matrix Resurrections [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mauritanian [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Memoria [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mitchells vs the Machines [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Mortal Kombat [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Moxie [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Little Pony: A New Generation [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Night Teeth [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Nightmare Alley [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Sudden Move [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] No Time To Die [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Nobody
[[1]] Official Competition [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Old [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] On the Count of Three [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oxygen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parallel Mothers [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades, Paris 13e) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Passing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Petite Maman [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Pig [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Plan B [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Power of the Dog [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Pushpa: The Rise - Part 1 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Queen Bees [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Queenpins [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Radhe
[[3]] Raya and the Last Dragon [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Red Notice [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Reminiscence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Respect [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Retreat [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ride or Die [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ron's Gone Wrong [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Seal Team [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Secret Agent Dingledorf and His Trusty Dog Splat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sentinelle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sex Lives of College Girls [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sing 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Single All The Way [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Souvenir: Part II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Space Jam: A New Legacy [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spencer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spider-Man: No Way Home [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spiral: From the Book of Saw [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Starling [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stowaway [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Suicide Squad [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sweet Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sweetheart [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Tender Bar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] the fallout [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Worst Person in the World [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] There's Someone Inside Your House [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Those Who Wish Me Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thunder Force [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] tick...tick..BOOM! [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Till Death [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Titane [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] To All the Boys: Always and Forever [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Tomorrow War [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The United States vs. Billie Holiday [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 10133 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2023-09-16 03:43: [[3]] The Portable Door (2023)
2023-09-13 22:16: [[0]] Belladonna Of Sadness (1973)
2023-09-08 20:40: [[0]] Free Birds (2013)
2023-09-07 16:13: [[2]] Switch (2013)
2023-09-06 16:58: [[3]] The Rental (2020)

The five latest comments were on:

2023-09-21 15:11: [[3]] Barbie (2023)
2023-09-21 13:46: [[1]] Step Brothers (2008)
2023-09-21 13:35: [[3]] Peter Rabbit (2018)
2023-09-21 00:20: [[1]] Level 16 (2018)
2023-09-21 00:20: [[1]] Level 16 (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 10133 movies listed. Some stats and graphs are available. Be sure to check out Ten graphics on the Bechdel test on Reddit for more graphs.

You can also view the list sorted by title, date added (latest first), number of comments, number of reviews or rating.
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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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