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

1931 (13 movies)

[[1]] Little Caesar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] M [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mädchen in Uniform [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mata Hari
[[1]] Monkey Business [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night Nurse [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Pardon Us [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Public Enemy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Rich and Strange [East of Shanghai] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Skin Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Skippy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Smiling Lieutenant [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

1930 (11 movies)

[[0]] All Quiet on the Western Front
[[3]] Animal Crackers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anna Christie
[[3]] The Bat Whispers [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Be Yourself [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Blue Angel [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] L'Age d'Or
[[3]] Ladies of Leisure [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Min and Bill [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Morocco [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Murder! [1 comment(s) available]

1929 (9 movies)

[[2]] Blackmail
[[3]] Broadway Melody [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Cocoanuts [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Juno and the Paycock [The Shame of Mary Boyle] [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Man with a Movie Camera [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Throw of the Dice [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Un chien andalou [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Welcome Danger [1 comment(s) available]

1928 (15 movies)

[[0]] A Girl in Every Port [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Beggars of Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Cameraman [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Circus [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Crowd
[[2]] The Docks of New York [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Man Who Laughs [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Our Dancing Daughters [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Passion of Joan of Arc [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Patsy [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Power of the Press [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Racket [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Speedy [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Steamboat Bill, Jr. [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] While the City Sleeps [1 comment(s) available]

1927 (12 movies)

[[2]] Abel Gance's Napoleon
[[3]] The Cat and the Canary [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Downhill [When Boys Leave Home]
[[3]] It [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Jazz Singer
[[0]] The Kid Brother [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Metropolis [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Best Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Nevada [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Unknown
[[1]] Wings [2 comment(s) available]

1926 (6 movies)

[[1]] Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
[[1]] Flesh and the Devil [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] For Heaven's Sake [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The General [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] So's Your Old Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Temptress

1925 (9 movies)

[[0]] Battleship Potemkin
[[2]] The Big Parade
[[0]] The Freshman [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Go West [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Gold Rush [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Lost World [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Phantom of the Opera
[[0]] Seven Chances
[[0]] Stachka

1924 (11 movies)

[[2]] Die Nibelungen
[[0]] Girl Shy [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Great White Silence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Greed [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Help! [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Kriemhild's Revenge
[[3]] Manhandled [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Navigator [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sherlock Jr. [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Thief of Bagdad
[[0]] Wild Oranges [1 comment(s) available]

1923 (6 movies)

[[2]] A Woman of Paris
[[3]] La souriante Madame Beudet [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Our Hospitality
[[0]] Safety Last! [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Silent Command [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Why Worry? [1 comment(s) available]

1922 (9 movies)

[[3]] Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Foolish Wives [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Man from Beyond [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Nanook of the North [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Nathan der Weise [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
[[0]] The Paleface
[[2]] The Phantom

1921 (4 movies)

[[3]] The Blot [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage)
[[0]] The Kid [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Orphans of the Storm

1920 (3 movies)

[[0]] The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pollyanna [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Within Our Gates [1 comment(s) available]

1919 (2 movies)

[[0]] Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] When the Clouds Roll by [1 comment(s) available]

1918 (4 movies)

[[0]] Are Crooks Dishonest? [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ich mochte kein Mann sein [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stella Maris [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tarzan of the Apes [1 comment(s) available]

1917 (5 movies)

[[0]] A Romance of the Redwoods [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Tale of Two Cities [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Poor Little Rich Girl [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm [1 comment(s) available]

1916 (5 movies)

[[3]] Gretchen the Greenhorn [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lady Windermere's Fan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Snow White [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Vagabond

1915 (3 movies)

[[3]] Alice in Wonderland [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Birth of a Nation [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Hypocrites [1 comment(s) available]

1914 (1 movie)

[[2]] A Florida Enchantment [1 comment(s) available]

1913 (2 movies)

[[0]] Suspense
[[0]] The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family

1912 (3 movies)

[[2]] Cleopatra [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Invaders [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Max and the Donkey

1910 (3 movies)

[[0]] A Trip to Mars
[[0]] Mobilier fidele [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor [2 comment(s) available]

1909 (3 movies)

[[0]] The Devilish Tenant [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Le barometre de la fidelite [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy [1 comment(s) available]

1908 (1 movie)

[[0]] Unusual Cooking [1 comment(s) available]

1907 (2 movies)

[[0]] The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Good Glue Sticks [1 comment(s) available]

1906 (7 movies)

[[0]] The 400 Tricks of the Devil
[[0]] A Funny Shave [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Consequence of Feminism [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hilarious Posters [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
[[0]] The Mysterious Retort [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Story of the Kelly Gang

1905 (2 movies)

[[0]] The Black Imp [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Scheming Gambler's Paradise [1 comment(s) available]

1904 (4 movies)

[[0]] The Cook in Trouble [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Le voyage a travers l'impossible [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Living Playing Cards [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Untamable Whiskers [1 comment(s) available]

1903 (5 movies)

[[0]] The Enchanted Well
[[0]] The Great Train Robbery [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Infernal Boiling Pot [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Monster [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Music Lover [1 comment(s) available]

1902 (4 movies)

[[0]] Gulliver's Travels
[[0]] Le voyage dans la lune
[[0]] Mephistopheles' School of Magic
[[0]] The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship

1901 (3 movies)

[[0]] Bluebeard [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] L'homme a la tete en caoutchouc [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Reve et realite

1900 (11 movies)

[[0]] As Seen Through A Telescope (a.k.a The Professor and His Field Glass) [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Doctor and the Monkey
[[0]] The Enchanted Drawing [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Explosion of a Motor Car (a.k.a The Dlights of Automobiling) [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Grandma Threading Her Needle [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Grandma's Reading Glass [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Hamlet ( Le Duel d'Hamlet) [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Let Me Dream Again
[[0]] The One-Man Band [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sherlock Holmes Baffled

1899 (2 movies)

[[0]] A Turn of the Century Illusionist [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cinderella [1 comment(s) available]

1898 (3 movies)

[[0]] The Astronomer's Dream; or, The Man in the Moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Four Heads Are Better Than One [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Temptation of St. Anthony [1 comment(s) available]

1897 (1 movie)

[[0]] Bataille de neige [1 comment(s) available]

1896 (8 movies)

[[0]] Alger: rue Bab-Azoun
[[0]] The Arrival of a Train [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The House of the Devil [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] La fee aux choux [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Lancement d'un navire [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Lassage des boeufs pour le labour
[[0]] Sandow [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Une nuit terrible [1 comment(s) available]

1895 (8 movies)

[[1]] Akrobatisches Potpourri [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Annabelle Serpentine Dance [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Baby's Dinner [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Barque sortant du port [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Billy Edwards and the Unknown [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Blacksmith Scene [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Italienischer Bauerntanz [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:

2025-12-14 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.

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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

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