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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

2003 (143 movies)

[[3]] The Core [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cradle 2 the Grave [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Daddy Day Care [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Daredevil [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Darkness Falls [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] De grønne slagtere ('Green Butchers') [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dead Like Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Despiser [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dies irae
[[3]] Distant Lights (Lichter) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dogville [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Down With Love
[[0]] Dreamcatcher [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Dreamers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Elephant [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Elf [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Evil
[[1]] Fear X [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Destination 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Finding Nemo [14 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Five Obstructions [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Forest for the Trees
[[3]] Freaky Friday [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Freddy vs. Jason [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gigli [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girl with a Pearl Earring
[[3]] Girls Will Be Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Goodbye Lenin! [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gothika [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Hebrew Hammer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heung joh chow heung yau chow (Turn Left, Turn Right) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Tension [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Holes [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hollywood Homicide
[[1]] Hot Wheels: World Race Highway 35 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of 1000 Corpses
[[3]] House of Sand and Fog [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] House of the Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hulk [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Capture the Castle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I'm Not Scared [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Identity [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] In Hell [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Cut [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Intolerable Cruelty [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All
[[1]] The Italian Job [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jeepers Creepers II [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Johnny English
[[3]] Ju-on 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Jungle Book 2 [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kal Ho Naa Ho
[[1]] Kangaroo Jack
[[3]] Kill Bill: Vol. 1 [3 review(s) available] [17 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Kontroll
[[3]] Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life [9 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Last Samurai [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Le divorce [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
[[3]] Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Les triplettes de Belleville [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lizzie McGuire Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lost In Translation [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Actually [1 review(s) available] [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Love Me If You Dare
[[1]] Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose? [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Malibu Spring Break [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Man Who Copied [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Matrix Reloaded [2 review(s) available] [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Matrix Revolutions [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Memories of Murder [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Milchwald [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Missing [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Moi et mon blanc
[[3]] Mona Lisa Smile [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Monster [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] The Mother [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Boss's Daughter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Life Without Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mystic River [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nathalie... [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Nothing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Off the Map [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Old School [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Oldboy [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Once Upon a Time in Mexico [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ong-bak [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Open Water [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Owning Mahowny [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Paycheck [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Peter Pan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pokemon: Jirachi - Wish Maker [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Prey for Rock & Roll [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pride and Prejudice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rats [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Recruit
[[3]] Right on Track
[[3]] Robot Stories [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Room [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rugrats Go Wild [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Runaway Jury
[[3]] S.W.A.T. [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scary Movie 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The School of Rock [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Secondhand Lions [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Shanghai Knights
[[2]] Shattered Glass [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Soldier's Girl [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Something's Gotta Give [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Stara basn. Kiedy slonce bylo bogiem (An Ancient Tale: When the Sun was God) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Station Agent [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stupeur et Tremblements [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sunset Story
[[3]] Swimming Pool
[[3]] Sylvia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tears of the Sun [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thirteen [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Time of the Wolf
[[1]] Timeline [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tokyo Godfathers [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Tough Luck
[[3]] Undead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Under the Tuscan Sun [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Underworld [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Uptown Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] View from the Top [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Voices of a Distant Star [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Warrior Queen [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] What a Girl Wants [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wrong Turn [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X2 (X-Men 2) [7 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Zero Day [1 comment(s) available]

2002 (57 movies)

[[1]] 24 Hour Party People [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 25th Hour [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 28 Days Later... [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 8 femmes [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] 8 Mile
[[1]] A hidember
[[3]] A la folie... pas du tout
[[3]] A mi madre le gustan las mujeres
[[3]] A Ring of Endless Light [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Walk to Remember [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] About a Boy
[[1]] About Schmidt
[[3]] Adaptation [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Adventures of Pluto Nash [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ali G Indahouse [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] All or Nothing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Amen.
[[3]] American Psycho II: All American Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Antwone Fisher
[[3]] Apartment #5C [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Armitage: Dual Matrix [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Austin Powers in Goldmember
[[1]] Bad Company [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bang Bang You're Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Banger Sisters [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Barbie as Rapunzel [7 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Below [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ben & Arthur [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bend It Like Beckham [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Fat Liar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Girls Don't Cry [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Trouble [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Blade II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blue Crush [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Bourne Identity [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Brown Sugar
[[1]] Bungalow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cabin Fever [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cadet Kelly [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Carrie [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Catch Me If You Can [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Charlotte Sometimes
[[3]] Cheats
[[3]] Chicago [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] City of God [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Coast Guard [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Crossroads [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cube2: Hypercube [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cypher
[[1]] The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara) [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Death to Smoochy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] demonlover
[[3]] Devdas [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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