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

1940 (12 movies)

[[3]] The Mortal Storm
[[3]] The Philadelphia Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pinocchio [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pride and Prejudice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Primrose Path [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rebecca [6 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Return of Frank James
[[1]] Santa Fe Trail
[[3]] The Sea Hawk [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shop Around the Corner [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Strange Cargo
[[0]] The Thief of Bagdad [1 comment(s) available]

1939 (34 movies)

[[3]] The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] At the Circus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babes in Arms [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dark Victory
[[3]] Destry Rides Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dodge City
[[2]] Drums Along the Mohawk
[[2]] Essex and Elizabeth
[[0]] The Flying Deuces [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gone with the Wind [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Goodbye, Mr. Chips
[[3]] The Gorilla [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gulliver's Travels [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gunga Din [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Hound of the Baskervilles [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jamaica Inn [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Jesse James
[[2]] Juarez
[[2]] Le jour se lève [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Affair [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Mr. Smith Goes to Washington [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mr. Wong in Chinatown
[[3]] Nancy Drew... Reporter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ninotchka [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Of Mice and Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Only Angels Have Wings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Rules of the Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stagecoach [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
[[3]] The Wizard of Oz [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Women [9 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Wuthering Heights
[[2]] Young Mr. Lincoln

1938 (15 movies)

[[2]] The Adventures of Robin Hood [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Angels with Dirty Faces
[[1]] The Baker's Wife
[[2]] Bluebeard's Eighth Wife [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Boys Town [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bringing Up Baby
[[2]] Carefree
[[0]] The Dawn Patrol [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Four Daughters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Holiday [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Jezebel [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lady Vanishes [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mad Miss Manton [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mr. Wong, Detective
[[2]] The Sisters

1937 (22 movies)

[[2]] A Day at the Races [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Awful Truth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bizarre, Bizarre [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Captains Courageous [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Conquest
[[3]] The Girl Was Young [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Knight Without Armor
[[1]] The Life of Emile Zola [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Lost Horizon
[[3]] Make Way for Tomorrow [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Marked Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Murder at the Baskervilles (Silver Blaze) [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Nothing Sacred [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Parnell
[[2]] Pepe le Moko [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Prisoner of Zenda
[[1]] Shall We Dance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stage Door [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stella Dallas [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Topper
[[3]] Wee Willie Winkie [1 comment(s) available]

1936 (27 movies)

[[3]] Born to Dance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bullets or Ballots [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Camille [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Charge of the Light Brigade
[[3]] Dracula's Daughter [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Earthworm Tractors
[[2]] Fury [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Great Ziegfeld
[[0]] Il caso Valdemar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mandarin Mystery [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Modern Times
[[3]] Mr. Deeds Goes to Town [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Murder at Glen Athol [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] My Man Godfrey [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Only Son [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Osaka Elegy
[[3]] Pennies from Heaven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Petrified Forest
[[0]] Revolt of the Zombies
[[3]] Romeo and Juliet [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sabotage [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] San Francisco
[[3]] Secret Agent [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Swing Time [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Theodora Goes Wild [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] These Three
[[2]] Wife vs. Secretary

1935 (12 movies)

[[3]] The 39 Steps [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Night At The Opera [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Anna Karenina
[[3]] The Bride of Frankenstein
[[2]] The Lady in Scarlet [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Mad Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Magnificent Obsession
[[1]] Mutiny on the Bounty
[[3]] Naughty Marietta
[[2]] The Riverside Murder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Roberta [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Top Hat

1934 (19 movies)

[[3]] Anne of Green Gables [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Cat's-Paw
[[1]] Cleopatra [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Count of Monte Cristo
[[3]] Evelyn Prentice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Imitation of Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It Happened One Night [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It's a Gift [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] L'atalante [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Lost in the Stratosphere [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Lost Patrol [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Man Who Knew Too Much [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Maniac [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Mystery Liner [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Of Human Bondage
[[1]] The Painted Veil
[[3]] The Scarlet Empress
[[3]] Search for Beauty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spitfire

1933 (22 movies)

[[3]] 42nd Street [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Study in Scarlet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alice in Wonderland [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Baby Face [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cavalcade [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Day of Reckoning [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Design for Living [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Duck Soup [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Female [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Footlight Parade [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gold Diggers of 1933 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Invisible Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Kennel Murder Case [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] King Kong [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Women
[[0]] The Peanut Vendor [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Private Life of Henry VIII.
[[3]] Queen Christina [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] She Done Him Wrong [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sons of the Desert [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tomorrow at Seven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Vampire Bat [1 comment(s) available]

1932 (24 movies)

[[2]] The Age of Consent [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bitter Tea of General Yen [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Blue Light (Das Blaue Licht) [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Boudu Saved from Drowning
[[1]] The Death Kiss [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Freaks [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Girl from Calgary [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Grand Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Horse Feathers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
[[1]] I Was Born, But... [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Island of Lost Souls
[[2]] Love Me Tonight [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Merrily We Go to Hell [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Most Dangerous Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Number 17 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Old Dark House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Red-Headed Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Scarface
[[3]] Shanghai Express [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thirteen Women [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Three on a Match [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vampyr [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] White Zombie [1 comment(s) available]

1931 (13 movies)

[[1]] A Nous la Liberte [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anna Christie
[[1]] The Champ [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Cheat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cimarron [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] City Lights [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dracula [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dracula [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Frankenstein
[[1]] Hyppolit a lakaj
[[3]] Indiscreet
[[3]] La Chienne [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Last Flight [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.

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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.

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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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