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

1977 (29 movies)

[[0]] The Hobbit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Julia [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Kentucky Fried Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kingdom of the Spiders [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Camp [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Man in the Iron Mask [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Man Who Loved Women [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] March or Die [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Martin
[[1]] Orca [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Peppermint Soda [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Pete's Dragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Planet of Dinosaurs [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Pumping Iron [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rabid [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Rescuers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Saturday Night Fever [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sentinel [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Slap Shot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sluzhebnyy roman [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Soldaat van Oranje [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Spy Who Loved Me [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Star Wars [2 review(s) available] [15 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Stroszek [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Suspiria [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Turning Point [1 comment(s) available]

1976 (42 movies)

[[0]] A Star Is Born [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] All the President's Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Allegro non troppo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Assault on Precinct 13 [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Az otodik pecset
[[3]] Bugsy Malone [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Canoa: A Shameful Memory
[[3]] Carrie [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Charlies Angels
[[0]] The Desert of the Tartars [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Drum [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Emmanuelle bianca e nera [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Family Plot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Freaky Friday [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Gumball Rally [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Il secondo tragico Fantozzi
[[3]] In the Realm of the Senses
[[1]] Keoma [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] L'innocente [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Les Douze Travaux d’Astérix (the Twelve Tasks of Asterix) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Logan's Run [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Man Who Fell to Earth
[[1]] Mandinga [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Marathon Man
[[3]] Murder by Death [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Network [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Omen [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Outlaw Josey Wales [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pascual Duarte
[[1]] Revenge Of The Cheerleaders [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rocky [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sebastiane [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Silent Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Silver Streak [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Small Change
[[3]] Sparkle
[[1]] Taxi Driver [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Tenant [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Town That Dreaded Sundown [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Two-Minute Warning [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Up! [1 comment(s) available]

1975 (43 movies)

[[0]] A boy and His Dog [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Barry Lyndon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blonde in Black Leather [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Count of Monte-Cristo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Death Race 2000 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Deep Red [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dersu Uzala [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dialogues of Exiles
[[3]] Dog Day Afternoon [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dolemite [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dr. Minx [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ecstasy of the Black Rose [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emmanuelle II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fawlty Towers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flatfoot in Hong Kong
[[3]] Grey Gardens
[[1]] Inserts [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ironiya sudby, ili S legkim parom! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jaws [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Katie Tippel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] L'histoire d'Adèle H. [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love and Death [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Maids
[[2]] Mandingo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mirror [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Monty Python and the Holy Grail [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nashville [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Numero deux [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Picnic at Hanging Rock [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Rocky Horror Picture Show [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma [Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom] [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sheba, Baby [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Stepford Wives [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] The Story of O [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Supervixens [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Switchblade Sisters [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Terror of Mechagodzilla [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Three Days of the Condor [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Tommy [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Zorro [1 comment(s) available]

1974 (44 movies)

[[3]] A Woman Under The Influence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Airport 1975 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
[[3]] The Arena [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Black Christmas [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Blazing Saddles [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blood for dracula [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Brief Encounter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Celine and Julie Go Boating
[[2]] Chinatown [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Conversation [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dark Star [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Death Wish [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dracula [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Edvard Munch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emmanuelle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Female Trouble
[[3]] Foxy Brown [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Godfather: Part II [8 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Going Places [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Groove Tube [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Je, tu, il, elle
[[0]] Killdozer [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Kozure Okami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Lenny [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Little Prince [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mame [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Man with the Golden Gun [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti [The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Odessa File [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Parallax View
[[0]] Phantom of the Paradise [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Sugarland Express
[[1]] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Towering Inferno [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Truck Turner [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vampyres [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Watch Out, We're Mad [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Young Frankenstein [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Zandy's Bride [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Zardoz [1 comment(s) available]

1973 (42 movies)

[[0]] 'Gator Bait [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Doll's House [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Touch of Class
[[3]] A Warm December [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Amarcord [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] American Graffiti [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Baby [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Badlands [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Belladonna Of Sadness [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Black Mama, White Mama [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Carry on Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
[[3]] Cleopatra Jones [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Coffy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Crazies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Day for Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Don Juan (Or If Don Juan Were a Woman) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Don't look now
[[3]] El ataque de los muertos sin ojos [Return of the Evil Dead] [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Enter the Dragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Exorcist [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fantastic Planet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Female Vampire [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Godzilla vs. Megalon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] High Plains Drifter [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Holy Mountain [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Jesus Christ Superstar [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Knock Out Cop
[[3]] La nuit des etoiles filantes [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] La rose de fer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lady Snowblood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Legend of Hell House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lemora: A Child's Tale Of The Supernatural
[[3]] Les noces rouges [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Live and Let Die [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mean Streets [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Messiah of Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] My Name Is Nobody [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Now where did the seventh company get to [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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