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

[[2]] Earth Girls Are Easy [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] East Side Sushi [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Easy Rider [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Educating Rita [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Edward Scissorhands [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Elizabethtown [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Elvis [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emilia Peréz [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] En guerre [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Enchanted April [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The End of the Tour [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Enough Said [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Eraserhead [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ernest & Celestine [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Escape from New York [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Escape from the Planet of the Apes [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Europa Report [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Everybody Wants Some [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Everything Must Go [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Evil Cult [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Exam [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Expendables 3 [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Experiment [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Eye [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Eyes Wide Open [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] F9 - The Fast Saga [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Falling Down [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Family guy [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fanboys [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fantasia [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fantasia 2000 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fantastic Mr. Fox [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fatal Instinct [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Female [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Festen (The Celebration) [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fighter [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Destination 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Final Girls [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Firm [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The First Wives Club [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fish Tank [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fits [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Five Feet Apart [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Five Nights at Freddy's [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flash Gordon [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flatliners [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flesh and the Devil [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flightplan [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Florida Project [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Flow [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Focus [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fog [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Me and My Gal [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Forbidden Kingdom [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Foxcatcher [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Freaks [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Freaky Friday [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Freaky Friday [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Freddy Got Fingered [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] French Kiss [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fried Green Tomatoes [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] From Here to Eternity [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] From Russia with Love [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Frozen 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Full Metal Jacket [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Funny Face [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Furie [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] G.I. Jane [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gakkô no kaidan G [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Game Night [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Garden State [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gemini Man [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Georgy Girl [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Get Low [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Get Smart, Again! [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gettysburg [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghost in the Shell [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghost in the Shell 2.0 [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ghostbusters II [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ghosted [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gimme Shelter [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ginger Snaps [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Girl on the Train [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girlfight [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girls Trip [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gladiator [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gladiator II [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Glengarry Glen Ross [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Go for Sisters [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] God Help the Girl [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] God's Own Country [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Godzilla [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Godzilla 1985 [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Godzilla vs. The Thing (Mothra vs. Godzilla) [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Going Postal [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Gold Rush [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gone Baby Gone [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Good Will Hunting [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Goodbye Lenin! [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Graduate [2 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Grand Seduction [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Grandma Threading Her Needle [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Grease 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Great Mouse Detective [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Green Knight [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Greenland [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gregory's Girl [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Greta [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gretchen the Greenhorn [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Group [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Gunman [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Guns of Navarone [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Guys and Dolls [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gyo [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hairspray Live! [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Half of It [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Halloween [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Halloween Kills [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hamlet [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hand That Rocks the Cradle [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hang 'Em High [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Hangover Part 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Happiest Season [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Happy Death Day 2U [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Happy Gilmore [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Happy-Go-Lucky [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Happythankyoumoreplease [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harbinger Down [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hard Target [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hard Ticket to Hawaii [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harold and Maude [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Haunter [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hearts Beat Loud [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Heavy Metal [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] HELEN [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hemlock Grove [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Her Story [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hercules [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hidden Fortress [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] High Fidelity [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High School Musical [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] High Strung [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hit and Run [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hitch [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hitchcock [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hocus Pocus 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Holy Mountain [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Alone 3 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home on the Range [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Homefront [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Honey, I Shrunk the Kids [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horror Planet [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hostel [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] House of Gucci [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House of the Devil [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] House of Wax [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House on Haunted Hill [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Housebound [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Housekeeping [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Be Single [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hross i oss [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hua Mulan [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hudson Hawk [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Hunchback of Notre Dame [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunger [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hunt for the Wilderpeople [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hush [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hustle [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hysteria [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I am Not an Easy Man / Je ne suis pas un homme facile [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Am Sam [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Heart Huckabees [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Remember Mama [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Walked with a Zombie [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I've Heard the Mermaids Singing [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I, Tonya [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ice Age [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ice Princess [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ida [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] If.... [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Imaginary [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The In Between [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Loop [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Incredible Jessica James [2 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

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 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.

There are currently 10664 movies listed. Some stats and graphs are available. Be sure to check out Ten graphics on the Bechdel test on Reddit for more graphs.

You can also view the list sorted by year, sorted by title (default), title, date added (latest first), number of comments, number of reviews or rating.
An RSS feed[RSS icon] is also available, listing the latest 50 movies added to the list.

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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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