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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

1967 (20 movies)

[[1]] Koroshi no rakuin [Branded to Kill] [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] La collectionneuse
[[1]] Le Samourai [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Marketa Lazarova [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Peppermint Frappe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Playtime [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The President's Analyst [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Robbery [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Smashing Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Son of Godzilla [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thoroughly Modern Millie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] To Sir, with Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Two for the Road [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Two Weeks in September [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Uchu daikaiju Girara [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Valley of the Dolls
[[3]] Wait Until Dark [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Woman Times Seven [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] You Only Live Twice [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Young Girls of Rochefort [1 comment(s) available]

1966 (54 movies)

[[1]] A Big Hand for the Little Lady [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Man for All Seasons [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Alfie [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Andrei Rublev
[[3]] Black Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Blood Bath [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Blow-Up [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cathy Come Home
[[0]] Daikaiju ketto: Gamera tai Barugon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Daimajin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Daisies [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Death Rides a Horse [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Django [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dracula: Prince of Darkness [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] El Dorado
[[3]] End of August at the Hotel Ozone [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eye of the Devil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fahrenheit 451 [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fantastic Voyage [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fortune Cookie
[[2]] Frankie and Johnny [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Georgy Girl [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (Ebirah, Horror of the Deep) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Group [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] How to Steal a Million [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
[[1]] L'armata Brancaleone [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] La battaglia di Algeri [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] La caza
[[1]] Lost Command [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Made in USA [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Manos: The Hands of Fate [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Murderers' Row [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nun [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] One Million Years B.C. [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Our Man Flint [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paradise, Hawaiian Style [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Persona [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Plague of the Zombies [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Return of Daimajin [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Sand Pebbles
[[2]] Saraswathi Sabatham [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Silencers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Spinout [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Tokyo Drifter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Torn Curtain [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Trouble with Angels [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Winnetou and the Crossbreed [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Wrath of Daimajin [1 comment(s) available]

1965 (42 movies)

[[3]] A Charlie Brown Christmas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Patch of Blue [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Study in Terror [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] A Thousand Clowns [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Alphaville
[[3]] The Big Job [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bunny Lake Is Missing
[[3]] Cat Ballou [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Daikaiju Gamera [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Darling [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Devils of Darkness [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Doctor Zhivago [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Endless Summer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
[[0]] The Flight of the Phoenix [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] For a Few Dollars More
[[1]] Frankenstein Conquers the World [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girl Happy [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] How to Murder Your Wife [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inside Daisy Clover [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Invasion of Astro-Monster [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Ipcress File
[[3]] Juliet of the Spirits
[[0]] Kapurush [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Knack... and How to Get It [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mne dvadtsat let (I am twenty) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Oil Prince [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Old Surehand [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Pleasure Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pyramid of the Sun God [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Railrodder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Red Beard [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Repulsion [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sound of Music [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] That Darn Cat!
[[2]] Thunderball [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Tickle Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Treasure of the Aztecs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Viva Maria!
[[3]] The Wild Affair [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Winnetou: The Last Shot [1 comment(s) available]

1964 (52 movies)

[[1]] A Hard Day's Night [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A shot in the dark [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Americanization of Emily [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Amongst Vultures [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Backfire [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Band of Outsiders
[[1]] Bedtime Story
[[2]] Bikini Beach
[[1]] Carry On Cleo
[[3]] The Chalk Garden [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Code Name: Tiger
[[3]] Dead Ringer [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Der Geteilte Himmel (Divided Heaven)
[[3]] Diary of a Chambermaid [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fail-Safe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fate Is the Hunter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Father Goose [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] First Men in the Moon
[[3]] Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Godzilla vs. The Thing (Mothra vs. Godzilla) [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Goldfinger [9 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Gospel According to St. Matthew
[[3]] Honeymoon Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
[[0]] King & Country [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Kissin' Cousins [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La tia Tula [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Last Man on Earth [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Long Ships
[[2]] Man's Favorite Sport?
[[3]] Marnie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Marriage Italian Style
[[3]] Mary Poppins [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Fair Lady [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nikutai no mon [Gate of Flesh] [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Old Shatterhand [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Onibaba [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Per un pugno di dollari (A Fisful of Dollars) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Red Desert [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Roustabout [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer [6 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Seduced and abandoned [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Time Travelers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Train
[[3]] The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Unsinkable Molly Brown [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Viva Las Vegas [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Winnetou: The Red Gentleman [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Woman in the Dunes
[[1]] The Yellow One [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Zulu [1 comment(s) available]

1963 (32 movies)

[[1]] 55 Days at Peking
[[3]] 8½ [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Atragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Bakery Girl of Monceau
[[2]] Beach Party [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Birds [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bye Bye Birdie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Carry on Cabby [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Charade [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cleopatra [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Contempt [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dementia 13 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] El verdugo
[[3]] From Russia with Love [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Great Escape [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Guest [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Haunting [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Incredible Journey [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Irma la Douce
[[3]] It Happened at the World's Fair [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Khaneh siah ast (The House is Black) [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Kiss of the Vampire [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Lord of the Flies [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mahanagar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Matango [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mclintock!
[[3]] Move Over, Darling [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Pink Panther [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Raven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sanjuro [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Servant [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.

Add a movie

If you want to add a movie to this list, please go to the Add a movie page and fill in the form. If you disagree with a rating, please leave a comment on the appropriate movie page instead.

Recent activity

Currently 10562 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2025-06-27 18:25: [[3]] The Wedding Banquet (2025)
2025-06-24 16:16: [[3]] Psycho Goreman (2020)
2025-06-21 16:16: [[3]] KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
2025-06-17 07:26: [[3]] Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (2023)
2025-06-14 19:14: [[0]] Sílene smutná princezna (1968)

The five latest comments were on:

2025-08-24 04:29: [[3]] Freakier Friday (2025)
2025-08-23 01:52: [[1]] One of Them Days (2025)
2025-08-23 01:52: [[1]] One of Them Days (2025)
2025-08-23 01:52: [[1]] One of Them Days (2025)
2025-08-20 21:13: [[0]] Barbie as Rapunzel (2002)

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 10562 movies listed. Some stats and graphs are available. Be sure to check out Ten graphics on the Bechdel test on Reddit for more graphs.

You can also view the list sorted by title, date added (latest first), number of comments, number of reviews or rating.
An RSS feed[RSS icon] is also available, listing the latest 50 movies added to the list.

You can view just the Movies in the IMDb Top 250 and last but not least, you can search the list.

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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