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

[[3]] El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Encanto [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ender's Game [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Epic [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Family [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Favourite [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Field of Dreams [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The First Purge [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Four rooms [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Free Solo [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The French Dispatch [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fruitvale Station [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Futurama: Bender's Game [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Ghost Writer [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girl Most Likely [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gnomeo & Juliet [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Goonies [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Grave of the Fireflies [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Greenberg [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Grown Ups 2 [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Guns Akimbo [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hackers [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Hangover part 3 [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Happy Death Day [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hard Candy [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heathers [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hedwig and the Angry Inch [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hellbound: Hellraiser II [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Highlander [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Holiday [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel Transylvania 2 [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Human Centipede (First Sequence) [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Know Where I'm Going [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ides Of March [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Independence Day [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Inside [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Insurgent [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Internship [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Iron Sky [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It's a Wonderful Life [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Jane Got a Gun [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] John Carter [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] John Tucker Must Die [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Knocked Up [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kung Fu Panda 3 [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Les Miserables [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Lisa Frankenstein [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Long Kiss Goodnight [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Love and Other Drugs [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Luca [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Manchester by the Sea [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Master [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Metropolis [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Milk [2 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Monsters University [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Mr. Right [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ninotchka [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Country for Old Men [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Non-Stop [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Notebook [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nyad [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ocean's Eleven [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Overboard [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parallel Mothers [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Polar Express [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pride and Prejudice [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Remains of the Day [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Revenant [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Rocky Horror Picture Show [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] San Andreas [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Saw [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Secret of Kells [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Shaun the Sheep Movie [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sicario [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sin City [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sin City: A Dame to Kill For [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Smokin' Aces [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Snatch. [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Sorcerer's Apprentice [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Spy Who Dumped Me [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Starship Troopers [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Ten Commandments [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Terminator Genisys [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Terms of Endearment [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Thing [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] This Is Where I Leave You [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] This Means War [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Titane [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] To Rome With Love [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tomb Raider [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Transformers: Dark of the Moon [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Treasure Planet [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] TRON [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Tron Legacy [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] True Lies [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Turning Red [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Twitches [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Unforgiven [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wadjda [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Walkabout [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Warcraft [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Whiplash [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] White Bear [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Women [5 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X-Men: Apocalypse [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 2046 [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] 300: Rise of an Empire [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The 40 Year Old Virgin [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 42 [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 45 Years [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 47 Meters Down [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 50/50 [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The 5th Wave [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] 9 [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] A Beautiful Mind [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Special Day [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Adventures of Robin Hood [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] After Earth [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Agora [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Alex Strangelove [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Alice in Wonderland [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] All That Jazz [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Amadeus [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Amour [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Another Earth [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] August: Osage County [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bachelorette [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bad Guys [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Baywatch [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Begin Again [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Belfast [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Bicycle Thieves [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Big Fish [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Big Sick [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Blade Runner [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Blind Side [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Blonde [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Blue Light (Das Blaue Licht) [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Booksmart [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Borat Subsequent Moviefilm [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Boss Baby [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Boy [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Brief Encounter [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Brokeback Mountain [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Call [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Carrie [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cars 3 [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Casino [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Catch Me If You Can [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Catfish [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Cell [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Chappie [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Chi bi (Red Cliff) [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Chicken Run [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Children of Men [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Clerks II [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cocktail [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Con Air [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Confessions of a Shopaholic [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Contact [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Conversations with Other Women [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Craft [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Crank [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Crash [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Crazies [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Crow [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Cutie and the Boxer [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dangerous Liaisons [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Das Boot [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Das Leben Der Anderen [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Dawn of the Dead [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Day of Wrath [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dead Man Down [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Death Becomes Her [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Demolition Man [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Demon Slayer: Mugen Train [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Descendants [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Diary of a Teenage Girl [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] District 9 [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Doctor Strange [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Double Indemnity [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dr. No [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dumbo [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The East [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eat, Pray, Love [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Elementary [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Elle [4 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.

Add a movie

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Recent activity

Currently 10377 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-07-31 19:43: [[3]] Fong Sai Yuk (1993)
2024-07-30 16:22: [[1]] North Hollywood (2021)
2024-07-29 15:58: [[3]] Double Down South (2022)
2024-07-29 01:30: [[1]] A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
2024-07-28 10:39: [[3]] Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-10-05 22:31: [[3]] Lullaby (2022)
2024-10-04 12:02: [[1]] Girl interrupted (1999)
2024-10-03 18:03: [[3]] Inside Out 2 (2024)
2024-10-03 16:09: [[3]] The Harry Hill Movie (2013)
2024-10-03 05:27: [[3]] 52jpdo (609)

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 10377 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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