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

1989 (43 movies)

[[3]] Leviathan [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Licence to Kill [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Mermaid [4 review(s) available] [24 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Look Who's Talking [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Loverboy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Majo no takkyûbin (Kiki's Delivery Service) [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Major League [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Meet The Feebles [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Millennium [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Left Foot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mystery Train [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Palombella rossa [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parenthood [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Police Academy 6: City Under Siege [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Przesluchanie [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Punisher [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Resan till Melonia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Return of Swamp Thing [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Road House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Savage Beach [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Say Anything... [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sea of Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] See No Evil, Hear No Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Seventh Continent
[[2]] Sex, Lies, and Videotape [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shag [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She-Devil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shirley Valentine [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Sidewalk Stories [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Star Trek V: The Final Frontier [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Steel Magnolias [6 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Tango & Cash [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Teen Witch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Troop Beverly Hills [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Turner & Hooch [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] UHF [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Uncle Buck [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out
[[1]] Weekend at Bernie's [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] When Harry Met Sally [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wild Orchid [1 comment(s) available]

1988 (97 movies)

[[0]] 'Gator Bait 2: Cajun Justice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Fish Called Wanda [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Accidental Tourist [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Accused [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Action Jackson [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Adventures of Baron Munchausen [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Akira [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Alien Nation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] And God Created Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Another Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Appleseed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Assault of the Killer Bimbos
[[3]] Beaches [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Bear [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beetle Juice [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Big [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Big Blue [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Big Business [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bloodsport
[[0]] The Bourne Identity [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Bull Durham [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Caddyshack II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Child's Play [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Chocolat [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cinema Paradiso [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coming to America [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Critters 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Crocodile Dundee II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Crossing Delancey
[[3]] Dangerous Liaisons [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dead Ringers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Die Hard [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dirty Rotten Scoundrels [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Distant Voices, Still Lives [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Earth Girls Are Easy [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Elvira: Mistress of the Dark [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emmanuelle 6 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Feds [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gakkô no kaidan G [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gorillas in the Mist [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Grave of the Fireflies [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Great Outdoors [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hairspray [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heathers [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hell Comes to Frogtown [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hellbound: Hellraiser II [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hiroshima Maiden [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Igla
[[3]] Jane B. for Agnes V.
[[0]] Killer Klowns from Outer Space [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kung-Fu Master! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] L'etudiante [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Lady in White [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The lair of the white worm [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Land Before Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Last Temptation of Christ [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Maniac Cop [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Married to the Mob [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Midnight Run [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Miracle Mile [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Stepmother Is an Alien [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mystic Pizza [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Oliver & Company [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] On the Silver Globe [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Poltergeist III [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pumpkinhead [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rain Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Rambo III [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Red Scorpion [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Remando al viento [Rowing with the Wind]
[[3]] Rock 'n' Roll Mom [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Running on Empty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Satisfaction
[[3]] Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scrooged [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shame
[[3]] The Sisterhood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Spoorloos
[[1]] Stand and Deliver [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sticky Fingers [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] They Live [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tonari no Totoro [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Torch Song Trilogy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Twins [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Two Moon Junction [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Vibes [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Who Framed Roger Rabbit [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Willow [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Wong gok ka moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Working Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] World Gone Wild [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Young Guns [1 comment(s) available]

1987 (60 movies)

[[1]] 3 Men and a Baby [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 84 Charing Cross Road [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] A Better Tomorrow II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Adventures in Babysitting [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Amazon Women on the Moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Angel Heart
[[3]] Around the World in Eighty Ways [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Au Revoir Les Enfants
[[3]] Babette's Feast [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Baby Boom [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Bad Taste [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bagdad Cafe
[[3]] Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Beverly Hills Cop II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Black Widow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Broadcast News [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Can't Buy Me Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Casanova [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Chipmunk Adventure [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Creepshow 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Deathstalker II [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dirty Dancing [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dragnet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] El bosque animado [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Emmanuelle 5 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Empire of the Sun [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Epidemic
[[3]] Evil Dead II [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fatal Attraction [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fatal Beauty
[[0]] Full Metal Jacket [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Gate [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Good Morning, Vietnam [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hansel and Gretel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hard Ticket to Hawaii [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hellraiser [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Tide [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hope and Glory [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House II: The Second Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of Games [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Housekeeping [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I've Heard the Mermaids Singing [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jaws: The Revenge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La ley del deseo
[[3]] The Last Emperor [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Lethal Weapon [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Light of Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lost Boys [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mannequin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Masters of the Universe [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Maurice [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Moonstruck [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] My Demon Lover [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ngati [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nice Girls Don't Explode [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] No Retreat, No Surrender 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] No Way Out [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Opera [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Outrageous Fortune [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.

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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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