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

1948 (14 movies)

[[3]] Joan of Arc [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Key Largo [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Macbeth [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Make Mine Freedom [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Melody Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
[[1]] The Naked City [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Red River [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Red Shoes
[[0]] Rope [6 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Snake Pit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spring in a Small Town - 春之城小 [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1947 (24 movies)

[[3]] Black Narcissus [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Body and Soul [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Build My Gallows High
[[2]] Calendar Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Crossfire [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dark Passage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dishonored Lady [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Egg and I [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Exile
[[3]] Fado, a Singer's Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fun & Fancy Free [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gentleman's Agreement [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Ghost and Mrs. Muir [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Good News [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gunfighters
[[0]] The Lady from Shanghai
[[3]] Miracle on 34th Street [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Monsieur Verdoux [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nada [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Odd Man Out [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Paradine Case [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shocking Miss Pilgrim [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Unfinished Dance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Voice of the Turtle [1 comment(s) available]

1946 (26 movies)

[[3]] Beauty and the Beast
[[2]] The Best Years of Our Lives [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Big Sleep [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Chase [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Dark Corner [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Deception [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Devotion
[[3]] Dressed to Kill [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Duel in the sun [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gilda [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Great Expectations [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Harvey Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It's a Wonderful Life [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Jolson Story
[[1]] Make Mine Music [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] My Darling Clementine [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Notorious [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Postman Always Rings Twice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She-Wolf of London [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Song of the South [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Stairway to Heaven [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Strange Woman
[[3]] The Stranger [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Terror by Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Two Sisters from Boston [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Years Between [1 comment(s) available]

1945 (25 movies)

[[0]] Along Came Jones
[[0]] Anchors Aweigh [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bells of St Mary's [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Brief Encounter [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Children of Paradise [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Corn Is Green [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dead of Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Detour [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Enchanted Cottage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Know Where I'm Going [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Isle of the Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Keep Your Powder Dry [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Leave Her to Heaven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Les dames du Bois de Boulogne
[[2]] The Lost Weekend [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mildred Pierce [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Objective, Burma! [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Red Dragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rome, Open City [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scarlet Street [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Seventh Veil
[[3]] Spellbound [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Thin Man Goes Home [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wicked Lady [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Woman in Green [1 comment(s) available]

1944 (20 movies)

[[3]] A Canterbury Tale [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Arsenic and Old Lace [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cover Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Die Feuerzangenbowle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Double Indemnity [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hail the Conquering Hero [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I'll Be Seeing You [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Laura [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lifeboat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Meet Me in St. Louis
[[1]] Minstrel Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku)
[[2]] Mr. Skeffington
[[3]] National Velvet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Since You Went Away [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Three Caballeros [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] To Have and Have Not [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Torment
[[3]] The Uninvited [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Window in the Window [1 comment(s) available]

1943 (26 movies)

[[3]] Angels of Sin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] China [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cry 'Havoc' [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Day of Wrath [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fires Were Started
[[1]] Girl Crazy
[[0]] Guadalcanal Diary [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heaven Can Wait [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Walked with a Zombie [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jane Eyre [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Judo Saga (Sanshiro Sugata) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] La main du diable
[[3]] Le Corbeau: The Raven [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Millions Like Us [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The More the Merrier [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Old Acquaintance
[[1]] Ossessione [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Ox-Bow Incident [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sahara [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Seventh Victim [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shadow of a Doubt [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Sky's the Limit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] So Proudly We Hail! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tender Comrade
[[3]] Watch on the Rhine

1942 (22 movies)

[[1]] Bambi [6 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Black Dragons [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Casablanca [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cat People [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Corpse Vanishes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Me and My Gal [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Gay Sisters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Married an Angel
[[2]] The Magnificent Ambersons [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Major and the Minor [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Man Who Came to Dinner [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mrs. Miniver [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Now, Voyager [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Saboteur
[[1]] Saboteur
[[0]] Saludos Amigos [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
[[2]] Tales of Manhattan [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] There Was a Father [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] To Be or Not to Be [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Woman of the Year [1 comment(s) available]

1941 (26 movies)

[[0]] 49th Parallel [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ball of Fire [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Buck Privates [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cheers for Miss Bishop [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Citizen Kane [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Devil and Miss Jones
[[2]] Dumbo [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] High Sierra
[[3]] Hold That Ghost
[[3]] How Green Was My Valley [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] King of the Zombies [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ladies In Retirement [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Lady Eve [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Little Foxes [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Maltese Falcon
[[3]] Meet John Doe [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Men of Boys Town [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mr. Bug Goes to Town [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Murder by Invitation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Reluctant Dragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shanghai Gesture
[[3]] Sullivan's Travels [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sun valley serenade
[[3]] Suspicion [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Two-Faced Woman
[[2]] The Wolf Man [1 comment(s) available]

1940 (17 movies)

[[0]] A Chump at Oxford [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] All This, and Heaven Too
[[3]] Anne Of Windy Poplars [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Ape [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Boom Town
[[2]] Chamber of Horrors / Door with the Seven Locks [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Comrade X
[[3]] Dance, Girl, Dance [2 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fantasia [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Foreign Correspondent [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gaslight [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Grapes of Wrath
[[3]] The Great Dictator
[[3]] His Girl Friday [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Knute Rockne All American [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Last Alarm [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Letter
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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 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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