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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

2010 (132 movies)

[[2]] The Other Guys [1 review(s) available] [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Family Wedding [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Outside the Law
[[3]] Paranormal Activity 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Peacock [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Perfect Host [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pete Smalls Is Dead
[[3]] Pink Saris [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Place in Between
[[3]] Please Give [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Poetry [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Post Mortem
[[3]] Potiche
[[0]] Predators [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Predicament [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pretty Little Liars
[[0]] Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [2 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] R U There
[[3]] Rabbit Hole [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ramayana: The Epic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ramona and Beezus [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Rare Exports [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Red [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Red: Werewolf Hunter [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Reef [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Remember Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Repo Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Resident Evil: Afterlife [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Restrepo [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Revenge of the Bridesmaids
[[1]] Revenge: A Love Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Robin Hood [1 review(s) available] [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Romantics [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] Room in Rome [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rubber [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Runaways [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Salt [2 review(s) available] [20 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sasha
[[3]] Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Score: A Hockey Musical [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World [2 review(s) available] [22 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Secretariat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Secuestrados [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Senna
[[3]] Sex and the city 2 [3 review(s) available] [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shelter [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Shrek Forever After [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shrine [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Shutter Island
[[1]] Simple Simon
[[3]] Skeletons [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Skyline [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Small Town Murder Songs [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Snabba cash [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Social Network [3 review(s) available] [19 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Somewhere [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Sorcerer's Apprentice [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sound of Noise [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Space Dogs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spiderhole [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Spy Next Door [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Stake Land [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Standing Ovation [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Starstruck [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Steam of Life
[[3]] Step Up 3D [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stonehenge Apocalypse [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Submarine
[[1]] Submarino
[[1]] Super
[[3]] Superman/Batman: Apocalypse [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Surely Someday [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Switch [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Takers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tangled [5 review(s) available] [16 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Tekken [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Tempest [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Temple Grandin [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Third Star
[[3]] Time Traveller (Toki o Kakeru Shojo) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
[[3]] Tiny Furniture [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Titanic II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tomorrow, When the War Began [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Tourist [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Town [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Toy Story 3 [1 review(s) available] [20 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Transfer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Trigger [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Trip
[[3]] Triple Dog
[[1]] TrollHunter [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Tron Legacy [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] True Grit [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tucker and Dale vs Evil
[[3]] Turbulent Skies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Twelve Thirty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse [3 review(s) available] [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Una hora mas en Canarias
[[3]] Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
[[3]] Une vie de chat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Unstoppable [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Unthinkable
[[3]] Valentine's Day [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Valkaama [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Vanishing on 7th Street [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Viva Riva! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Ward [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Way Back [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Way [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] We are The Night (Wir sind die Nacht) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Welcome to the Rileys [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] West Is West [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] When in Rome [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Whistleblower [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Who Killed Captain Alex! [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Who We Are
[[1]] Wild Target [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Winter's Bone [9 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Wolfman [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Womb [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Women on the 6th Floor
[[0]] Wrecked [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] XXXHOLiC: Ro [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] YellowBrickRoad [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Yogi Bear [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Young justice
[[1]] Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time [1 comment(s) available]

2009 (68 movies)

[[1]] "Chess in Concert" [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] (500) Days of Summer [12 comment(s) available]
[[1]] (Untitled) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 1 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 12 Men of Christmas
[[3]] 17 Again [9 comment(s) available]
[[1]] 2012 [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] 3 Idiots
[[1]] 44 Inch Chest
[[0]] 9 [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Perfect Getaway [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Prophet (Un Prophete) [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Serious Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Single Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Town Called Panic
[[3]] About Elly
[[3]] Accidents Happen
[[3]] According to Greta [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Adam [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Adventureland [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] After.Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Agora [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Air Doll [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ajami [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Albino Farm [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Aliens in the Attic
[[3]] All About Steve [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Amelia [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] An Education [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] And Then Came Lola [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Angels & Demons [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Antichrist [14 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Armored
[[3]] The Assassin Next Door [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Astro Boy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Attack on Leningrad
[[3]] Avatar [8 review(s) available] [17 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Away We Go [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Awaydays [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beautiful Kate [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beeswax
[[3]] Big Font. Large Spacing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bitch Slap [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Black Dynamite [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Blind Side [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blood: The Last Vampire [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Boat That Rocked [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
[[3]] The Box [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Brüno [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bran Nue Dae
[[3]] Breaking Upwards [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bride Wars [1 review(s) available]
[[0]] Brief Interviews With Hideous Men [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bright Star [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] Bring It On: Fight to the Finish [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Broken Embraces [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Brooklyn's Finest
[[3]] Brothers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Butter bei die Fische
[[3]] C Me Dance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cairo Time
[[1]] Capitalism: A Love Story [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cargo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Carriers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Case 39 [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.

Add a movie

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 10562 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2025-06-27 18:25: [[3]] The Wedding Banquet (2025)
2025-06-24 16:16: [[3]] Psycho Goreman (2020)
2025-06-21 16:16: [[3]] KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
2025-06-17 07:26: [[3]] Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (2023)
2025-06-14 19:14: [[0]] Sílene smutná princezna (1968)

The five latest comments were on:

2025-08-13 14:09: [[2]] Weapons (2025)
2025-08-12 23:13: [[3]] Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate (2024)
2025-08-12 22:26: [[0]] The Love Bug (1968)
2025-08-12 18:31: [[3]] ujzxam (0)
2025-08-09 20:18: [[1]] Topkapi (1964)

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 10562 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.
An RSS feed[RSS icon] is also available, listing the latest 50 movies added to the list.

You can view just the Movies in the IMDb Top 250 and last but not least, you can search the list.

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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