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

2018 (31 movies)

[[0]] They Shall Not Grow Old [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Timeless [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Titan [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Tito e os Passaros [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] To All the Boys I've Loved Before [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tomb Raider [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Toppen av ingenting [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Tower [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Transcendents
[[3]] Truth or Dare [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tully [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Tyler Perry's Acrimony
[[3]] Undertow [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Upgrade [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Venom [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Vice [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vox Lux [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] We Have Always Lived in the Castle [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Welcome to Marwen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] What Keeps You Alive [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] When We First Met [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Where Hands Touch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Widows [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wild Nights with Emily [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Wild Pear Tree [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wild Rose [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wildling [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Woman at War [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You
[[3]] Z-O-M-B-I-E-S [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zoe [1 comment(s) available]

2017 (169 movies)

[[3]] 12 feet deep [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] 1922 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 47 Meters Down [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] 6 days [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Bad Moms Christmas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Christmas Prince [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Dog's Purpose [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Ghost Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A man of integrity [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Man Wanted (Hatooly Ragel)
[[3]] A Royal Winter [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Alexander IRL [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alien: Covenant [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] All Eyez On Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] All the Money in the World [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] American Assassin [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] American Made [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Amityville: The Awakening [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anna and the Apocalypse [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Annabelle: Creation [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] António Um, Dois, TrÊs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Apostasy [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Assignment [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Atomic Blonde [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ava [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Baby Driver [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Babysitter [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Back to Burgundy (Ce que nous lie) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Band Aid
[[3]] The Bar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie Video Game Hero [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Batman vs. Two-Face [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Battle of the Sexes [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Baywatch [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beach Rats
[[3]] Beatriz at Dinner [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beauty and the Beast [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Before I Fall [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Beguiled [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Berlin Syndrome [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Beyond [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Big Sick [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Bigfoot: Blood Trap [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blade Runner 2049 [24 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bon Cop Bad Cop 2
[[3]] The Book of Birdie [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Borg vs McEnroe [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Boss Baby [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Breadwinner [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bride [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bright [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Burning Sands
[[3]] Bushwick
[[3]] The Bye Bye Man [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Call Me by Your Name [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Canaries [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cars 3 [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Cherry Pop [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Circle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coco [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Coin Heist [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Cold Skin
[[3]] Columbus [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Creep 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cult of Chucky [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Cured [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Daddy's Home 2
[[3]] Dance Academy: The Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Dark Tower [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Darkest Hour [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dead Body [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Death Note [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Death of Stalin [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Death Race 2050 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Deidra & Laney Rob a Train [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Descendants 2 [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Despicable Me 3 [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Detroit [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Different Flowers
[[3]] Dim the Fluorescents [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Dinner [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Disaster Artist [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Disco [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Discovery [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Disobedience [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Djam [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Downsizing [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dunkirk [9 comment(s) available]
[[2]] El Camino Christmas
[[3]] El libro de Lila [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Embrasse-moi!
[[1]] The Emoji Movie [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Endless [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Escape [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Euphoria
[[3]] Everything, Everything [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fate of the Furious [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
[[3]] Felicite
[[3]] The Female Brain [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ferdinand [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fifty Shades Darker [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] First Reformed [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fist Fight
[[3]] The Florida Project [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flower [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Here or To Go? [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Foreigner [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fun Mom Dinner [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gekijoban Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gemini [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Geostorm [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gerald's Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Get My Gun [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Get Out [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghost in the Shell [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ghost Stories [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gifted [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girls Trip [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Glass Castle [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] God's Own Country [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Godard Mon Amour [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Going In Style [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Good Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Goon: Last of the Enforcers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Greatest Showman [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Happy Death Day [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hitman's Bodyguard [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hostiles
[[2]] How to Be a Latin Lover
[[3]] I Can Speak [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Kill Giants [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I, Tonya [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Il demone di Laplace [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Incredible Jessica James [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ingrid Goes West [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Innan vi dor [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It Comes at Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Jesus, Bro! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jigsaw [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] John Wick: Chapter 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jusqu'a la garde (Custody) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Justice League [15 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Karera ga honki de amu toki wa (Close Knit)
[[3]] Kidnap
[[3]] The Killing of a Sacred Deer [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] King Arthur [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kingsman: The Golden Circle [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kong: Skull Island [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La llamada [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lady Bird [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Landline [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Last Word [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Lean on Pete [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lears [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The LEGO Batman Movie [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Hours [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Logan [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Logan Lucky [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Loving Vincent [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.

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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 10289 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-05-28 19:45: [[3]] Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
2024-05-08 03:41: [[3]] Tarot (2024)
2024-04-26 20:34: [[1]] Lady Parts (2024)
2024-04-14 06:16: [[3]] Wicked Little Letters (2023)
2024-04-09 11:12: [[1]] Imaginary (2024)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-06-29 04:57: [[1]] The Comebacks (2007)
2024-06-26 17:52: [[3]] Burnt (2015)
2024-06-25 18:21: [[3]] Un momento en el tiempo: olas (2019)
2024-06-25 05:43: [[3]] Angelina Ballerina: Shining Star Trophy Movie (2011)
2024-06-25 00:58: [[0]] Daddio (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 10289 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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