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

1993 (89 movies)

[[3]] The Evil Cult [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Falling Down [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Farewell My Concubine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fatal Instinct [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fear of a Black hat [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fei hu wai zhuan
[[3]] The Firm [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fong Sai Yuk [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Free Willy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fugitive [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gatica, el mono
[[3]] Gekijô-ban - Bishôjo senshi Sêrâ Mûn R (Sailor Moon R the Movie: The Promise of the Rose) [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gettysburg [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Groundhog Day [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Grumpy Old Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Guilty as sin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gypsy [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hard Target [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Heart and Souls
[[2]] Heaven & Earth
[[3]] Heidi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Heroic Trio [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hocus Pocus [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hot Shots! Part Deux [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meathook, and Now I Have a Three Picture Deal at Disney
[[1]] In the Line of Fire [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] In the Name of the Father [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Indecent Proposal
[[3]] Indian Summer [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Indien [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Joy Luck Club [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jurassic Park [1 review(s) available] [18 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kika
[[3]] La casa de los espíritus [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Last Action Hero [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Leprechaun [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Little Buddha [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Making of '...And God Spoke'
[[1]] The Man Without a Face
[[3]] Manhattan Murder Mystery
[[3]] Manichithrathazhu [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Matinee [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mi vida loca [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mrs. Doubtfire [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Much Ado About Nothing [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Naked [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Nightmare Before Christmas [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Once Upon a Forest [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Pelican Brief [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Philadelphia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Piano [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pieces of April [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Poetic Justice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Point of No Return/The Assassin [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Princess and the Cobbler
[[1]] The Remains of the Day [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rising Sun [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Robin Hood: Men in Tights [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] RoboCop 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ruby in Paradise
[[0]] The Sandlot [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Schindler's List [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Searching for Bobby Fischer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Secret Garden [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Short Cuts [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Six Degrees of Separation
[[2]] Sleepless in Seattle [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sliver [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] So I Married an Axe Murderer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Son In Law
[[0]] Sonatine
[[0]] Space Zombie Bingo!!! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Super Mario Bros. [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Swing Kids
[[2]] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Telling Secrets [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Three Colors: Blue [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tombstone [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Trial
[[1]] True Romance [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Umi ga kikoeru [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Undercover Blues [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Untamed Heart [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wedding Banquet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] What's Eating Gilbert Grape [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] What's Love Got to Do with It [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Wrong Trousers

1992 (89 movies)

[[1]] A Few Good Men [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A League of Their Own [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A River Runs Through It [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Aladdin [2 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Alien 3 [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Army of Darkness [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Baraka [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Basic Instinct [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Batman Returns [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beethoven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bikini Carwash Company [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bitter Moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bob Roberts
[[2]] The Bodyguard [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Boomerang [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Buffy the Vampire Slayer [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Candyman [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Chaplin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Como agua para chocolate [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Critters 4 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Crying Game [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Cutting Edge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Damage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dead Alive [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Death Becomes Her [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Deep Cover [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dien Bien Phu [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Doragon bôru Z: Atsumare! Gokû Wârudo
[[3]] Dracula [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dragon Inn [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] El Mariachi
[[3]] Enchanted April [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Encino Man
[[3]] Far and Away [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] FernGully: The Last Rainforest [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Freddie as F.R.O.7. [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Full Contact
[[3]] Gas Food Lodging [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghostwatch [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Glengarry Glen Ross [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hand That Rocks the Cradle [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Hard Boiled [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hero
[[3]] Home Alone 2: Lost in New York [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] HouseSitter
[[3]] Howards End [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Husbands and Wives [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Just another girl on the I.R.T [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] King of Beggars [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Kuffs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ladybugs [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Last of the Mohicans [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lawnmower Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Leap of Faith [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Leaving Normal [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lover / L'amant [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Malcolm X [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Mighty Ducks
[[3]] The Muppet Christmas Carol [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] My Cousin Vinny [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Newsies [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Orlando [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Passenger 57 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Passion Fish [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Peter's Friends [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Player [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Porco Rosso (Kurenai no Buta) [6 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Reservoir Dogs [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sarafina! [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Scent of a Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Schtonk [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Single White Female [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Singles [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sister Act [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sneakers
[[0]] Split Second
[[2]] Stay Tuned [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Straight Talk [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Strictly Ballroom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] This is My Life [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tom and Jerry: The Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Toys [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Un Coeur en Hiver [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Unforgiven [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Wayne's World [1 comment(s) available]

1991 (22 movies)

[[3]] 'Merci la vie'
[[3]] The Addams Family [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] An American Tail: Fievel Goes West [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Backdraft [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Barton Fink
[[3]] Beauty and the Beast [3 review(s) available] [13 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Black Robe [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Boyz n the Hood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Butcher's wife [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cape Fear [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Child's Play 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] City Slickers [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Closet Land [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Commitments
[[3]] Critters 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Daughters of the Dust
[[1]] Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Defending Your Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Delirious
[[0]] Delta Force 3: The Killing Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dick Tracy [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.

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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:

2025-12-15 21:51: [[2]] The accountant 2 (2025)
2025-12-15 20:46: [[2]] Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
2025-12-14 06:11: [[3]] Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
2025-12-14 04:21: [[3]] The Incredibles (2004)
2025-12-14 04:00: [[3]] Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

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.

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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

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