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

1996 (128 movies)

[[1]] Barb Wire [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Basquiat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beautiful Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beautiful Thing [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
[[3]] Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Birdcage [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Bottle Rocket [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bound [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] Brassed Off [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Broken Arrow [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Cable Guy
[[1]] Chain Reaction [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Charlot og Charlotte [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Connie Gomper & the Pack [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Courage Under Fire [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Craft [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Crash [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Crucible
[[3]] Curdled [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Daylight [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Daytrippers [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Down Periscope [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] DragonHeart [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emma
[[3]] The English Patient
[[3]] Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eraser [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Escape from L.A.
[[3]] Evita
[[3]] Eye for an Eye [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fan [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fargo [21 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fear [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Female Perversions
[[3]] Fire
[[3]] The First Wives Club [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fly Away Home [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Foxfire
[[3]] Freeway [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Frighteners [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] From Dusk Till Dawn
[[3]] The Funeral [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ghost and the Darkness [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girls Town [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Glimmer Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The God of Cookery [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Grace of my heart
[[1]] Hamlet [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Happy Gilmore [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Hard Eight [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harriet the Spy
[[1]] Hellraiser: Bloodline [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
[[1]] The Hunchback of Notre Dame [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Shot Andy Warhol
[[3]] Independence Day [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Irma Vep
[[2]] Jack [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] James and the Giant Peach [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jane Eyre [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Jerry Maguire
[[1]] Jingle All the Way
[[3]] Kids Return [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kingpin
[[3]] La belle verte [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La lengua asesina [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Last Man Standing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Libertarias [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Lone Star [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Long Kiss Goodnight [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love and Other Catastrophes [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Love, etc. [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Manny & Lo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mars Attacks! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Marvin's Room [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Matilda [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Michael [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Michael Collins [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mirror Has Two Faces [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mission: Impossible [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mother [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mother Night
[[3]] Mr. Wrong [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Muppet Treasure Island
[[1]] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Phantom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Poison Ivy II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Preacher's Wife [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Primal Fear
[[0]] Pusher [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Quest [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ridicule [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Rock
[[3]] Rollergator [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Romeo + Juliet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sabrina the Teenage Witch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scream [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Secrets & Lies [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Set It Off
[[1]] Sleepers
[[0]] Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie
[[1]] Space Jam [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Spitfire Grill
[[1]] Spy Hard
[[3]] Star Trek: First Contact [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stealing Beauty
[[3]] Striptease [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Substitute [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Swallowtail Butterfly
[[2]] Swingers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tenchi Muyô! In Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] That Thing You Do! [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Three Lives and Only One Death
[[3]] Tin Cup [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Trainspotting [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Tremors II: Aftershocks [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Truth About Cats & Dogs
[[3]] Twelfth Night or What You Will [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Twister [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Un air de famille [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Va' dove ti porta il cuore [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Waiting for Guffman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Walking and Talking [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Watermelon Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Welcome to the Discworld
[[3]] When the Cat's Away [1 comment(s) available]

1995 (72 movies)

[[2]] A Goofy Movie [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A little princess [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Addiction [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Aladdin and the King of Thieves [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alice in Wonderland
[[3]] The American President [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Antonia's Line [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Apollo 13 [8 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Assassins [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Baby-Sitters Club [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bad Boys
[[2]] Balto [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Basketball Diaries
[[1]] Batman Forever [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Before Sunrise [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Billy Madison
[[3]] Boys on the Side
[[2]] Braveheart [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bridges of Madison County [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Butterfly Kiss
[[1]] Canadian Bacon [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Casino [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Casper [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Catnapped! The Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Celluloid Closet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Circle of Friends
[[3]] The City of Lost Children [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clueless [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cold Comfort Farm [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Congo [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Copycat [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Crimson Tide [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Cure [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cutthroat Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dangerous Minds
[[3]] Dead Man Walking [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dead Presidents [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Desperado [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Devil in a Blue Dress [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Die Hard: With a Vengeance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dolores Claiborne
[[3]] Dracula: Dead and Loving It [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] El dia de la bestia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Empire Records [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
[[1]] Fallen Angels [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] First Knight [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Four rooms [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Free Willy 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] French Kiss [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Friday [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Godzilla vs. Destoroyah [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] GoldenEye [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Grim [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Grumpier Old Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hackers [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Heat [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Heavyweights [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Higher Learning [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home for the holidays [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Make an American Quilt [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Indira [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] It Takes Two [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Judge Dredd [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jumanji [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell) [3 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 10664 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2025-12-06 00:08: [[1]] Playdate (2025)
2025-12-05 03:13: [[3]] Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025)
2025-12-04 10:52: [[3]] Vesper (2022)
2025-12-02 21:13: [[2]] In Your Dreams (2025)
2025-11-30 22:24: [[1]] Nuremberg (2025)

The five latest comments were on:

2025-12-10 15:42: [[2]] Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
2025-12-08 23:23: [[3]] Zootopia 2 (2025)
2025-12-08 19:07: [[0]] Mr. (1967)
2025-12-05 03:13: [[3]] Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025)
2025-12-04 10:52: [[3]] Vesper (2022)

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 10664 movies listed. Some stats and graphs are available. Be sure to check out Ten graphics on the Bechdel test on Reddit for more graphs.

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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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