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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

2001 (126 movies)

[[3]] Heartbreakers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hedwig and the Angry Inch [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heist [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hidden Half (Nimeh-ye penhan)
[[3]] High Heels and Low Lifes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hitched [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] How High
[[3]] Human Nature
[[3]] Hundstage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Am Sam [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Impostor
[[3]] In the Bedroom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Time of the Butterflies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jason X [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jeepers Creepers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Josie and the Pussycats [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jump Tomorrow [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Jurassic Park III [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] K-PAX [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kairo [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Kate & Leopold [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kiss of the Dragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kissing Jessica Stein [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Koroshiya 1 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] L'uomo in più [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] L.I.E. [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] la ciénaga
[[3]] La fille de Keltoum
[[3]] La tour Montparnasse infernale [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Lara Croft: Tomb Raider [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Late Marriage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Le fate ignoranti [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Legally Blonde [1 review(s) available] [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Legend of Suriyothai [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life as a House [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [1 review(s) available] [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lost and Delirious [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
[[3]] Lovely and Amazing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lucky Girl (a.k.a. My Daughter's Secret Life) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Majestic
[[3]] Manic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Me Without You [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Mexican [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Millennium Actress [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Miss Minoes (a.k.a Undercover Kitty) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mists of Avalon
[[3]] Monkeybone [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Monsoon Wedding [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Monster's Ball [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Monsters, Inc. [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mostly Martha
[[2]] Moszkva ter
[[3]] Moulin Rouge! [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mulholland Dr. [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mummy Returns [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Mystic Masseur [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Navigators [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Not Another Teen Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhere in Africa [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ocean's Eleven [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The One [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Order [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Original Sin
[[3]] Osmosis Jones [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Others [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Pearl Harbor [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Piano Teacher
[[3]] Planet of the Apes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Princess Diaries [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Prozac Nation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rat Race [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Read My Lips
[[3]] Recess: School's Out [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Riding in Cars with Boys [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Royal Tenenbaums [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rush Hour 2 [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Samsara
[[3]] Save the Last Dance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scary Movie 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Score [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Serendipity [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shallow Hal [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Shaolin Soccer [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Shrek [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sister Mary Explains it All [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Slashers
[[3]] Someone Like You... [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spirited Away [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Spy Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spy Kids [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stranded [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sugar & Spice
[[3]] Suicide Club [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Super Troopers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sweet November
[[1]] Swordfish [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Tanguy
[[1]] Thir13en Ghosts [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tomie: Re-birth [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Training Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tremors 3: Back to Perfection [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Trouble Every Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Valentine [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Vanilla Sky [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Visitor Q [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Volcano High [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Waiting For Godot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Waking Life
[[3]] War Bride [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wedding Planner [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wet Hot American Summer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] What Makes a Family
[[3]] Wiedźmin (The Hexer) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wit [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Y tu mama tambien [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yes, But... [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zaion: I Wish You Were Here [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zenon: The Zequel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zoolander [6 comment(s) available]

2000 (74 movies)

[[3]] 102 Dalmatians
[[3]] 28 Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The 6th Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Good Baby [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alley Cats Strike
[[3]] Almost Famous [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] American Psycho [13 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Amores Perros [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] An Extremely Goofy Movie [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Autumn in New York
[[3]] Baise-Moi [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bamboozlee [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Battle Royale [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Beach [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beautiful [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beautiful Creatures [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Best in Show
[[3]] Billy Elliot [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Bless the Child
[[1]] Blinkende lygter ('Flickering Lights') [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blue's Big Musical Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Boiler Room [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Bounce [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bread and Roses [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bring It On [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Cast Away [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cecil B. Demented [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Cell [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Center Stage [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Charlie's Angels [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cherry Falls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Chicken Run [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Chocolat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Circle [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Contender [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coyote Ugly [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dancer in the Dark
[[3]] Dancing at the Blue Iguana
[[0]] Dark Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dinner Rush
[[3]] Dinosaur [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Dish [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dr. T & the Women [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dragonheart: A New Beginning [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dude, Where's My Car [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dune [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eeny Meeny [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] El zoo d'en Pitus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Emperor's New Groove [1 review(s) available] [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Erin Brockovich [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood for Love) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Family Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Final Destination [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Finding Forrester [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flowers for Algernon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Gift [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ginger Snaps [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girlfight [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gladiator [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Gleaners and I [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gone in Sixty Seconds [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Greenfingers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gundam Wing: The Movie - Endless Waltz [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hanging Up [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hellraiser: Inferno [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] High Fidelity [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hollow Man [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How the Grinch Stole Christmas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] If These Walls Could Talk 2
[[3]] Is It Fall Yet [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Isle [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:

2025-08-16 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.

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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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