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

1991 (71 movies)

[[1]] Doc Hollywood
[[3]] Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Double Impact [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Double Life of Veronique
[[0]] Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Drop Dead Fred [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Europa
[[0]] Eyes of an Angel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fisher King [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Five Heartbeats [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flirting [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For the Boys [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Frankie and Johnny
[[2]] Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fried Green Tomatoes [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hachi-gatsu no rapusodi [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Highlander II [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hook [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hot Shots!
[[3]] Hudson Hawk [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Impromptu [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Into The Woods [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] JFK [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Kickboxer 2: The Road Back [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] L.A. Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Last Boy Scout [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lethal Games [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Life Stinks [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Linguini Incident
[[1]] The Lovers on the Bridge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Madonna: Truth or Dare [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Manta, Manta [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Mediterraneo [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Motorama [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Girl [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] My Own Private Idaho
[[1]] The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Nekromantik 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Neon City [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] New Jack City
[[3]] Night on Earth
[[3]] The Object of Beauty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Omohide poro poro [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Oscar
[[3]] Other People's Money [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paprika [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The People Under the Stairs [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Point Break [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Princess and the Goblin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Raise the Red Lantern [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Riff-Raff [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Robin Hood
[[3]] Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Rocketeer [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Rubin and Ed
[[3]] Salmonberries
[[1]] Samurai Cop [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shakes the Clown [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Showdown in Little Tokyo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Silence of the Lambs [15 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Slacker
[[3]] Soapdish [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tacones Lejanos [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Terminator 2: Judgement Day [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thelma & Louise [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Toy Soldiers
[[3]] Until the End of the World [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] What About Bob? [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] White Fang

1990 (89 movies)

[[3]] A Little Night Music [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Tale of Springtime [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Air America [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] An Angel at My Table
[[1]] Back to the Future Part III [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Girls from Mars [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bimbos B.C.
[[2]] Blue Steel [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Bonfire of the Vanities [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bullet in the Head [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Child's Play 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Class of 1999
[[1]] Close-Up [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Criminal Justice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cry-Baby [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dances with Wolves [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dark Angel (I Come in Peace) [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Darkman [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Days of Being Wild [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Days of Thunder [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Die Hard 2 [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dragon Ball Z: The Movie - The Tree of Might [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Edward Scissorhands [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Europa Europa [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flatliners [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghost [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Godfather: Part III [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Goodfellas [8 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gremlins 2: The New Batch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Grifters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Handmaid's Tale [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] Happily Ever After
[[3]] Hidden Agenda [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Alone [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Hunt for Red October [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] I Hired a Contract Killer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I love you to death [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I, the Worst of All
[[1]] It [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Jacob's Ladder
[[2]] Joe Versus the Volcano [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kindergarten Cop [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life Is Sweet [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Lionheart [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Long Walk Home [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Lord of the Flies
[[3]] The Match Factory Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mermaids [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Metropolitan [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Miller's Crossing
[[3]] Mindwalk [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Misery [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Naked Tango [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen)
[[0]] Navy Seals
[[3]] Nightbreed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nikita
[[0]] No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paris is Burning [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Portrait of a Marriage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Postcards from the Edge [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Predator 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Presumed Innocent [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pretty Woman [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Qin yong [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Quick Change [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Reflecting Skin [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Rescuers Down Under [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] RoboCop 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Rocky V [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
[[0]] The Russia House [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Sheltering Sky [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Stella [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Strangers in Good Company [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Total Recall [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tremors [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Troll 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Where the Heart Is [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] White Hunter Black Heart
[[2]] Wild at Heart [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Witches [3 comment(s) available]

1989 (40 movies)

[[1]] The 'Burbs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Abyss [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] All Dogs Go to Heaven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babar: The Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Back to the Future Part II [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Batman [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Blind Fury [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Born on the Fourth of July [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Casualties of War [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Celia
[[3]] Chopper Chicks in Zombietown [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Crimes and Misdemeanors [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dead Calm
[[1]] Dead Poets Society [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Delinquents [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Do the Right Thing [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Dream Team [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Driving Miss Daisy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Drugstore Cowboy [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Farewell to the King [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fat Man and Little Boy
[[2]] Field of Dreams [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fletch Lives [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Get Smart, Again! [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ghostbusters II [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Glory [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Godzilla vs. Biollante [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Henry V [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Honey, I Shrunk the Kids [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Karate Kid Part III [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Kickboxer [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Killer [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Leningrad Cowboys Go America
[[2]] Let It Ride [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lethal Weapon 2 [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:

2025-12-14 06:11: [[3]] Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
2025-12-14 04:21: [[3]] The Incredibles (2004)
2025-12-14 04:00: [[3]] Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
2025-12-13 21:24: [[3]] Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025)
2025-12-10 15:42: [[2]] Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

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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