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

1981 (43 movies)

[[2]] The Fox and the Hound [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Friday the 13th Part 2 [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Galaxy of Terror [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Great Muppet Caper [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gregory's Girl [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Halloween II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Happy Birthday to Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Heavy Metal [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] History of the World: Part I [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horror Planet [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Howling [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Il marchese del Grillo
[[0]] La fuga de Segovia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lady Chatterley's Lover [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Looker [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Maeve [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Marva Collins Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Masked Avengers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mommy Dearest
[[3]] Ms. 45
[[2]] My Bloody Valentine [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] My Dinner With Andre [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Nighthawks [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] On a Golden Pond [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Outland [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pennies from Heaven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Polyester [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Possession [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Prowler [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Quest for Fire [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ragtime [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Raiders of the Lost Ark [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Reds
[[3]] Rich and Famous
[[1]] Scanners [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shock Treatment [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Southern Comfort
[[2]] Stripes [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Thief [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Time Bandits [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Umrao Jaan [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Victory [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Woman Next Door [1 comment(s) available]

1980 (46 movies)

[[3]] Airplane! [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] American Gigolo [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Any Which Way You Can [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Atlantic City [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Battle Beyond the Stars [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Blue Lagoon [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Blues Brothers [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Caddyshack [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Can't Stop the Music [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cannibal Holocaust
[[3]] Cannibal! the Musical [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coal Miner's Daughter [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Cruising
[[3]] Fade to Black [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fame [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Final Countdown
[[3]] Flash Gordon [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fog [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Friday the 13th [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Health [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Heaven's Gate
[[1]] Indul a bakterhaz
[[0]] Kagemusha [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The King and the Mockingbird [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La terrazza [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Darlings [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Loose Shoes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Maniac [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mirror Crack'd [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Moskva slezam ne verit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nightmare City [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nine to Five (9 to 5) [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Ninth Configuration [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Nude Bomb [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ordinary People [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Party [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Popeye [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Private Benjamin
[[1]] Raging Bull
[[1]] Resurrection [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Shining [1 review(s) available] [7 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Somewhere in Time
[[0]] Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Superman II [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Xanadu [2 comment(s) available]

1979 (45 movies)

[[3]] Alien [27 comment(s) available]
[[2]] All That Jazz [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Amityville Horror [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Angels' Brigade [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Apocalypse Now [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Being There [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bell Jar [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Black Hole [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Buffet froid [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The China Syndrome [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Die Blechtrommel [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Escape from Alcatraz
[[1]] The Frisco Kid
[[3]] Hair
[[3]] The In-Laws
[[1]] The Jerk [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kramer vs. Kramer [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] L'hypothese du tableau vole [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life of Brian [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mad Max [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Manhattan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Marriage of Maria Braun
[[3]] Meatballs [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Moonraker [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Muppet Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Murder by Natural Causes [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Brilliant Career [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Norma Rae [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The North Avenue Irregulars [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Nosferatu the Vampyre [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Osenniy marafon
[[1]] Phantasm [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Quadrophenia [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Retour à la bien-aimée [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rock 'n' Roll High School [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rocky II
[[1]] The Rose [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Scum [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Stalker [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Star Trek: The Motion Picture [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Time After Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tourist Trap [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Warriors [4 comment(s) available]

1978 (43 movies)

[[3]] A Woman Called Moses
[[3]] An Unmarried Woman
[[2]] Animal House [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Avalanche [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Battlestar Galactica [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Boys from Brazil [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Brink's Job [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Convoy [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Damien: Omen II [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dawn of the Dead [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Days of Heaven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Death on the Nile [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Deer Hunter
[[0]] The Driver [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Foul Play [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girlfriends
[[2]] Gray Lady Down [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Grease [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Höstsonaten [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Halloween [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hound of the Baskervilles [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] I Spit on Your Grave [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Interiors
[[2]] Jaws 2
[[3]] Jubilee [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] La cage aux folles
[[1]] The Last Waltz [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Lo chiamavano Bulldozer [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lord of the Rings [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Magic [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Midnight Express
[[3]] Piranha [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Pretty Baby
[[0]] Quel maledetto treno blindato [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ringing Bell (Chirin no Suzu) [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Shout
[[3]] Someone's Watching Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Star Wars Holiday Special [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Starcrash [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Superman [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Watership Down [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Within the Woods [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wiz [1 comment(s) available]

1977 (23 movies)

[[3]] 3 Women [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The 36 Crazy Fists [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Bridge Too Far
[[3]] A Little Night Music [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Special Day [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] ABBA: The Movie
[[3]] Alucarda [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The American Friend
[[3]] Annie Hall [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Close Encounters of the Third Kind [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Damnation Alley
[[3]] Death Trap! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Desperate Living
[[2]] The Devil, Probably
[[1]] The Duelists
[[3]] Emmanuelle 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Eraserhead [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Goodbye Girl
[[3]] The Haunting of Julia
[[1]] High Anxiety
[[3]] The Hills Have Eyes
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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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