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

1965 (11 movies)

[[3]] Red Beard [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Repulsion [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Saragossa Manuscript [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 (53 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]] Topkapi [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 (45 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]
[[0]] Shock Corridor [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Silence [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Summer Holiday [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Summer Magic
[[3]] Suzanne's Career [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Sword in the Stone [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tamahine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tom Jones
[[1]] Unearthly Stranger [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Winnetou [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Winter Light [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Zlaté kapradí [1 comment(s) available]

1962 (47 movies)

[[3]] Adieu Philippine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Advise & Consent [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Almost Angels [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Antoine and Colette
[[1]] Atraco a las tres [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Boccaccio ´70 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Brain That Wouldn't Die [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Carnival of Souls [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cartouche [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cleo from 5 to 7
[[3]] The Day of the Triffids [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Devil's Hand [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dr. No [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Exterminating Angel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Follow That Dream [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Girls! Girls! Girls! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gypsy [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Hara-Kiri [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hatari! [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ivanovo detstvo [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Jules and Jim [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kid Galahad [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] King Kong vs. Godzilla [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] L'eclisse [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The L-Shaped Room [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] La Jetee
[[0]] Lawrence of Arabia [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray
[[3]] Lolita [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Longest Day [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love on a Pillow [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Manchurian Candidate [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Miracle Worker [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Music Man [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Exit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Only Two Can Play [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] That Touch of Mink
[[3]] To Kill a Mockingbird [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Treasure of the Silver Lake [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Trial of Joan of Arc
[[1]] The Trial [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vivre Sa Vie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Walk on the Wild Side [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] War of the Buttons
[[3]] What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm [1 comment(s) available]

1961 (40 movies)

[[3]] A Raisin in the Sun [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Taste of Honey [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] A Woman Is a Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Accattone [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Beast of Yucca Flats [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blue Hawaii [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Breakfast at Tiffany's [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Children's Hour
[[3]] The Curse of the Werewolf [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] El Cid
[[3]] Flame in the Streets [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flower Drum Song [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Girl with a suitcase [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girls of the Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Guns of Navarone [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hustler [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Innocents [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] King of Kings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La Notte [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Ladies Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Leon Morin, Priest
[[2]] Lola [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Misfits [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Mothra [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Mysterious Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Hundred and One Dalmatians [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One, Two, Three [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Parent Trap
[[3]] Paris Blues [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Phantom Planet
[[3]] Please, Not Now! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Snow White and the Three Stooges
[[3]] Splendor in the Grass [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Through a Glass Darkly [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Underworld U.S.A.
[[1]] Victim [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] West Side Story [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Why Bother to Knock [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wild in the Country [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Yojimbo [1 comment(s) available]

1960 (4 movies)

[[0]] A bout de souffle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Apartment [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Bad Sleep Well [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Black Sunday
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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:

2025-12-14 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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