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

2024 (6 movies)

[[3]] Argylle
[[3]] The Beekeeper [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dune: Part Two [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Lisa Frankenstein
[[3]] Mean Girls
[[3]] Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate [1 comment(s) available]

2023 (110 movies)

[[2]] 65 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Beautiful Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Air [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anatomie d'une chute [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Are You There God? It's Me Margaret [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Astérix et Obélix: L'Empire du Milieu [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Asteroid City [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Living [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie [22 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Beau is Afraid
[[1]] BlackBerry [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blue Beetle [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Book of Clarence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bottoms [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Boy and The Heron [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Boys in the Boat [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Champions [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Christmas with Jerks [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Chupa [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cocaine Bear [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Color Purple
[[3]] Conann [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Concrete Utopia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Creator [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Creed 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Swordsmith Village [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Elemental [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evil Dead Rise [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fast X [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Five Nights at Freddy's [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flamin’ Hot [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Flash [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Four Daughters
[[1]] The G [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ghosted [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Godzilla Minus One [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gran Turismo
[[3]] Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Happiness for Beginners
[[3]] Haunted Mansion [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heart of Stone [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Holdovers [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Hate You to Death [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] InCar [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Infinity Pool
[[2]] Insidious: The Red Door
[[3]] The Iron Claw [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It Lives Inside [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jawan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Je verrai toujours vos visages [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Je'vida [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jules [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Killers of the Flower Moon [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Kuolleet lehdet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Leo
[[1]] Les choses simples [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Mermaid  [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Liu lang di qiu 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Living Bad [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Marvels [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] May December [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Missing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] My Christmas Hero [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nimona [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Hard Feelings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhere [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nyad [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Oppenheimer  [1 review(s) available] [31 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Past Lives [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pathaan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Perfect Find [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Polite Society [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Poor Things [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Portable Door [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Priest's Exorcist [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Quiz Lady [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Reality [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Reflect [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
[[3]] Renfield [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Reptile [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Resident Evil: Death Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Royal Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Saw X [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scott Pilgrim Takes Off [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] SCREAM VI [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Second tour [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Slotherhouse [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spy Kids: Armageddon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Super Mario Bros. Movie [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tarla [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tetris [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thank You, I’m sorry
[[3]] Theater Camp [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Trolls Band Together [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wahou!
[[3]] Wingwomen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonka
[[3]] The Young Arsonists [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Zepotha Killer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Zone of Interest [1 comment(s) available]

2022 (84 movies)

[[3]] The 355 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Fada do Lar [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Man Called Otto [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Adam Project [8 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Against the Ice
[[0]] All Quiet on the Western Front [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] All the old knives
[[1]] Allra síðasta veiðiferðin
[[2]] Ambulance [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] As bestas [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Athena [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Avatar: The Way Of Water [13 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babylon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bad Guys [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Badhaai Do
[[3]] The Banshees of Inisherin [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbarian [20 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Batman [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Beavis and Butt-Head do the Universe [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Blackbird [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blade of the 47 Ronin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blasted [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Blonde [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bob’s Burgers Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bodies Bodies Bodies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bones and All [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Brahmastra Part One Shiva [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Broker [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bros [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bubble [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bullet Train [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Burning Days (Kurak Günler) [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Catherine Called Birdy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Catwoman: Hunted [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cici
[[1]] Clerks III [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Code Name Banshee [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Confess, Fletch [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Crush [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dark Glasses [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Darlings
[[3]] Death on the Nile
[[1]] Deep Woods [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Den siste våren (Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick?) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Disenchanted [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Do Revenge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Don't Worry Darling [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] EL Agua
[[0]] El cuarto pasajero
[[1]] Elvis [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emergency
[[3]] Emily the Criminal [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Enola Holmes 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Everything Everywhere All at Once [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fabelmans [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fall [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Cut [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fire Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flux Gourmet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fresh [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gangubai Kathiawadi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gone in the Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Good luck to you, Leo Grande [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Good Nurse [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Goutte d'Or [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Grand Paris
[[2]] The Gray Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Halloween Ends [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Halloween Kills [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hellbender [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hocus Pocus 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The In Between [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] In with the Devil: Hand to Mouth
[[1]] In with the Devil: Pilot [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] In with the Devil: WhatsHerName
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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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Recent activity

Currently 10251 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-03-02 03:15: [[3]] Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate (2024)
2024-02-29 03:37: [[3]] Dune: Part Two (2024)
2024-02-28 14:00: [[2]] Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
2024-02-26 12:55: [[3]] Mermaid (2007)
2024-02-25 11:37: [[1]] Flamin’ Hot (2023)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-03-28 15:53: [[3]] The Upside of Anger (2005)
2024-03-27 10:33: [[1]] Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
2024-03-25 11:41: [[3]] Road House (2024)
2024-03-25 01:55: [[3]] Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
2024-03-24 06:26: [[1]] Clara (2018)

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 10251 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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