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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

1963 (13 movies)

[[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 (46 movies)

[[3]] Adieu Philippine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Advise & Consent [2 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 (39 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]
[[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 (43 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
[[3]] Body in the Web [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Brides of Dracula [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The City of the Dead [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Conspiracy of Hearts [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dařbuján a Pandrhola [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Exodus [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] First Spaceship on Venus [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flaming Star [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] G.I. Blues [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Heller in Pink Tights [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inherit the Wind [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jigoku (Hell or The Sinners of Hell) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] L'avventura [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La ciociara [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] La Dolce Vita [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Last Woman on Earth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Late Autumn [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Le Trou
[[3]] Les Bonnes Femmes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Les yeux sans visage [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Let's Make Love [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Magnificent Seven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Make Mine Mink
[[2]] Nerve on Sunday [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Peeping Tom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Psycho [7 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Rocco and His Brothers
[[1]] School for Scoundrels [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Shoot the Piano Player [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Spartacus
[[3]] The Story of Ruth [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Testament of Orpheus
[[0]] The Time Machine
[[3]] The Truth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Virgin Spring
[[2]] Where the Boys Are
[[3]] Wild River
[[2]] The World of Suzie Wong [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zazie dans le metro [1 comment(s) available]

1959 (36 movies)

[[0]] The 400 Blows [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Bucket of Blood [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Anatomy of a Murder [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Apur Sansar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Araya
[[3]] Babette Goes to War [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ballada o soldate
[[3]] The Bat [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Battle in Outer Space [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ben-Hur [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bridge [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Come Dance with Me! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Darby O'Gill and the Little People [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Giant Gila Monster [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gidget [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Good Morning (Ohayô) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Great War [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House on Haunted Hill [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Imitation of Life [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Journey to the Center of the Earth
[[1]] Night of the Ghouls [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] North By Northwest
[[3]] The Nun's Story [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] On the Beach [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pillow Talk [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Plan 9 from Outer Space [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ride Lonesome [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rio Bravo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sleeping Beauty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sleeping Beauty  [1 review(s) available] [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Some Like It Hot [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Suddenly, Last Summer
[[1]] The Tingler
[[3]] The Wasp Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The World, The Flesh and The Devil [1 comment(s) available]

1958 (23 movies)

[[3]] Auntie Mame [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Blood of the Vampire [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Brink of Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Damn Yankees [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Day the Sky Exploded
[[0]] The Defiant Ones
[[3]] Dracula (Horror of Dracula) [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
[[2]] The Female [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fly [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gigi [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hidden Fortress [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] I Bury the Living [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Want To Live! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Indiscreet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Inn of the Sixth Happiness [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] It! The Terror from Beyond Space
[[1]] King Creole [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Is My Profession [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mädchen in Uniform [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Marjorie Morningstar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mon Oncle [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:

2025-08-16 06:33: [[2]] Weapons (2025)
2025-08-15 19:05: [[2]] The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
2025-08-15 08:02: [[3]] Laapataa Ladies (2023)
2025-08-13 14:09: [[2]] Weapons (2025)
2025-08-12 23:13: [[3]] Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate (2024)

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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