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]] Harriet the Spy
[[3]] Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Harry Hill Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 [64 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [24 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [17 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Harter Brocken
[[3]] The Harvey Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hatari! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hate U Give [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hated in the Nation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hateful Eight [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hating Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Haunt [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Haunt [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Haunted Mansion [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Haunter [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Haunting of Julia
[[3]] The Haunting of Sharon Tate [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Haunting of Whaley House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Haunting [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Haunting [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl's Moving Castle) [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Haute Cuisine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
[[3]] He Was Cool (Geunomeun meoshiteotda) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] He's Just Not That Into You [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Head-On
[[3]] Health [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hear Me Out [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heart of Stone [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heartbreakers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hearts Beat Loud [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Heat [1 review(s) available] [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heathers [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heaven Can Wait [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heavenly Creatures [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hedi Schneider steckt fest [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hedwig and the Angry Inch [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heidi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Heiress [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Heiresses [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heist [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Helen
[[3]] Helen
[[3]] Helen
[[3]] Hell [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hell Comes to Frogtown [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hellbender [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hellhole [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hello Sister, Goodbye Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hello, Dolly! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hello, My Name Is Doris [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hellraiser [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Help [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hemlock Grove [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Henry V [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Her Bridal Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Her Smell [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Herb & Dorothy
[[3]] Herbie Fully Loaded
[[3]] Hercules [1 review(s) available] [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hercules [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hereditary [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Heroic Trio [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Herself [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heruta sukeruta
[[3]] Heung joh chow heung yau chow (Turn Left, Turn Right) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hick [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hidden [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hidden Agenda [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hidden Figures [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hidden Half (Nimeh-ye penhan)
[[3]] Hide and Seek
[[3]] Hideaway (Le refuge)
[[3]] Hideous Kinky
[[3]] High Art
[[3]] High Crimes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Heels and Low Lifes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The High Note [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High School Musical [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High School Musical 2 (TV Movie) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High School Musical 3: Senior Year [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Society [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Tension [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Tide [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Higher Ground [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Higher Learning [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hill Where Lionesses Roar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hills Have Eyes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hills Have Eyes
[[3]] Himizu [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hiraeth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hiroshima Maiden [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] His Girl Friday [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] His House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hit and Run [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hit Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hitched [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hitchhikers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The hitman’s apprentice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hitman's Bodyguard [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hits [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hjartat
[[3]] The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug [15 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hobson's Choice [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The hockey girls
[[3]] Hocus Pocus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hocus Pocus 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hogfather [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hold That Ghost
[[3]] The Hole [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Holidate
[[3]] Holiday [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Holiday [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hollow Man [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hollow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hollywood Complex [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Holy Girl
[[3]] Holy Smoke [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Alone [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Alone 2: Lost in New York [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Alone 3 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home for the holidays [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home on the Range [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Room
[[3]] Homestuck
[[3]] Honey, I Shrunk the Kids [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Honeymoon Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Honeymoon Killers
[[3]] The Honor List [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hoodwinked!
[[3]] Hope and Glory [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hope Floats [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hope Springs [2 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hopeful [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horns [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horrible Bosses [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horror Planet [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horse Girl
[[3]] Host [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Host [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Host [17 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hostel: Part II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hostiles
[[3]] The Hot Chick [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hot Flashes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hot Shots! Part Deux [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hot Thrills and Warm Chills [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotarubi no Mori e (To the Forest of Firefly Lights) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel Artemis [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel For Dogs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel Transylvania [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel Transylvania 2 [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hound of the Baskervilles [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hounds of Love
[[3]] Hour of the Star [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hours [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House at the End of the Street [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House Bunny [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House II: The Second Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of 1000 Corpses
[[3]] House of Games [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of Sand and Fog [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of the Dead 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House of the Devil [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of Tolerance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of Voices (Saint Ange) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of Wax [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House of Yes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House on Haunted Hill [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House on Willow Street [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House That Dripped Blood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Housebound [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Housekeeping [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Housemaid [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How About You [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How Do You Know [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How Green Was My Valley [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How I Live Now [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How it ends [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How old are you?
[[3]] How the Grinch Stole Christmas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Be a Good Wife [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 10408 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-10-05 22:31: [[3]] Lullaby (2022)
2024-10-03 16:09: [[3]] The Harry Hill Movie (2013)
2024-09-30 20:46: [[3]] Abigail (2024)
2024-09-29 20:33: [[3]] The Planters Plantation (2022)
2024-09-28 19:17: [[3]] Giant (1956)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-10-06 08:10: [[3]] Inside Out 2 (2024)
2024-10-06 08:06: [[3]] Lady Parts (2024)
2024-10-05 22:31: [[3]] Lullaby (2022)
2024-10-04 12:02: [[0]] ()
2024-10-03 18:03: [[3]] Inside Out 2 (2024)

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 10408 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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