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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

2005 (150 movies)

[[3]] Gekijoban XXXHolic Manatsu no yoru no yume [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gespenster
[[1]] Good Night, and Good Luck. [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Green Street Hooligans [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Grey's Anatomy [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Happy Endings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hard Candy [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [12 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hate Crime [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Herbie Fully Loaded
[[3]] Hide and Seek
[[2]] Hitch [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hoodwinked!
[[1]] Hostel [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of the Dead 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] House of Wax [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hustle & Flow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ice Princess [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Imagine Me & You [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In Her Shoes [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Into Great Silence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Island [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Isolation [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Jacket [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Jarhead [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Joyeux Noël [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Junebug
[[3]] Just Like Heaven [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Just Sex and Nothing Else
[[3]] Keeping Mum [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kids in America [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] King Kong [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Kingdom of Heaven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kinky Boots [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kiss Kiss Bang Bang [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kronk's New Groove [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] L'empire des loups
[[2]] La moustache [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Last Order: Final Fantasy VII [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Le couperet [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Legend of Zorro
[[3]] Legion of the Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Linda Linda Linda [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Little Einsteins [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Fish
[[3]] Little Manhattan
[[1]] The Longest Yard [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Lord of War [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Lords of Dogtown [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Madagascar
[[3]] The Magic of Ordinary Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Man of the House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Match Point [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Me and You and Everyone We Know
[[3]] Memoirs of a Geisha [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] MirrorMask [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
[[0]] Monster-in-Law
[[3]] Mortuary [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Mr. & Mrs. Smith [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Munich [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Muppets' Wizard of Oz [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Must Love Dogs [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] My Little Pony
[[3]] Nana [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Nanny McPhee [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The New World [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nine Lives
[[3]] North Country [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Oliver Twist
[[3]] The Pacifier [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Paradise Now [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Perfect Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Pleasure Drivers
[[3]] Pride and Prejudice [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Producers [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Proof [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Proposition [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Quiet
[[3]] Red Eye [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rent [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Ring Two [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rinne [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Robots [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rofuto [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Romance & Cigarettes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rumor Has It... [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Santa's Slay [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Saw II [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Say Uncle
[[1]] Separate Lies
[[3]] Serenity [16 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Shopgirl
[[3]] Sin City [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Single White Female 2: The Psycho [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sisters in Law [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Skeleton Key [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sky High [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Son of the Mask [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Squid and the Whale [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Star Wars: Revelations [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Stay
[[1]] Stealth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Strangers with Candy [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Sun
[[2]] Survival Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sweet Land [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Swimmers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Thank You for Smoking
[[1]] THE MATADOR
[[3]] The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
[[0]] Tickets [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tideland
[[3]] Tjenare kungen [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Transamerica [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Transporter 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Twelve and Holding [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Twitches [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tyler Perry’s Diary of a mad black woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Upside of Anger [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Urban Legends: Bloody Mary [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] V for Vendetta [3 review(s) available] [15 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Valiant [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vampire Bats [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Violin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Waiting... [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Walk the Line [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] War of the Worlds [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Water [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wedding Crashers
[[3]] The Wedding Date [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] West Bank Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Where the Truth Lies [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] White Noise [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough
[[3]] Wolf Creek
[[3]] Yours, Mine and Ours [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Zathura: A Space Adventure [1 comment(s) available]

2004 (50 movies)

[[3]] 13 Going on 30 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 2046 [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] 3-Iron [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 50 First Dates [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] 9 Songs [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Christmas Carol: The Musical
[[3]] A Cinderella Story [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Dirty Shame [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Good Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Home at the End of The World [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Love Song for Bobby Long [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] A Separate Peace
[[3]] A Very Long Engagement [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ae Fond Kiss... [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] After the Sunset [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Alexander [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] All the Ships at Sea [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Appleseed [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Around the World in 80 Days
[[1]] The Assassination of Richard Nixon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Aviator [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] AVP: Alien vs. Predator [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Balto III: Wings of Change [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Banlieue 13 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Before Sunset [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Before the Fall
[[3]] Being Julia [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blade: Trinity [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blessed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Bourne Supremacy [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bratz the Video: Starrin' & Stylin' [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bride and Prejudice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bring It on Again
[[2]] The Butterfly Effect [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Caribe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Catwoman [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cellular [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Christmas with the Kranks [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Chronicles of Riddick [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Closer [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Collateral [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Confessions of Teenage Drama Queen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Connie and Carla
[[3]] Corpses [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Crash [4 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:

2025-08-16 22:28: [[3]] Dog Man (2025)
2025-08-16 06:33: [[2]] Weapons (2025)
2025-08-15 19:05: [[2]] The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
2025-08-15 08:02: [[3]] Laapataa Ladies (2023)
2025-08-13 14:09: [[2]] Weapons (2025)

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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