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]] How to be really bad [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Be Single [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Make an American Quilt [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Marry a Millionaire [2 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Steal a Dog / Gae-leul hoom-chi-neun wan-byeok-han bang-beob [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Train Your Dragon [2 review(s) available] [20 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Howard The Duck [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Howards End [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Howling [1 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]
[[3]] Hugo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hula Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Human Centipede (First Sequence) [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Human Nature
[[3]] Human Traffic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hundred-Foot Journey [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hundstage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunger Games [1 review(s) available] [29 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunger Games: Catching Fire [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 [14 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunger [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hungry Bitches [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hunt for the Wilderpeople [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunt [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hunter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Huntsman: Winter's War [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hurricane Bianca [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Husbands and Wives [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hush [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
[[3]] Hustle & Flow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hustle [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hustlers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hypnotic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hypothermia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hysteria [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hysterical Blindness [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Am Curious (Yellow)
[[3]] I Am Legend [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Am Love
[[3]] I Am Mother [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Am Nasrine
[[3]] I am Not an Easy Man / Je ne suis pas un homme facile [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Am Sam [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Belong [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Can Speak [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Can't Think Straight
[[3]] I Capture the Castle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Care a Lot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Could Never Be Your Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Do
[[3]] I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Don't Know How She Does It [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Feel Pretty
[[3]] I Give it a Year [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Hate You to Death [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Heart Huckabees [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Kill Giants [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meathook, and Now I Have a Three Picture Deal at Disney
[[3]] I Know What You Did Last Summer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Know Where I'm Going [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Know Who Killed Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Like It Like That [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Like Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I love you to death [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Married an Angel
[[3]] I Origins [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Remember Mama [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Saw The TV Glow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Shot Andy Warhol
[[3]] I Still Know What You Did Last Summer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Think I Do [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Used to Be Darker [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Walked with a Zombie [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Want to Eat Your Pancreas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Want To Live! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Will Follow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I'll Be Seeing You [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I'll See You in My Dreams [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I'm Not Ashamed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I'm Not Scared [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I'm Your Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I've Heard the Mermaids Singing [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I've Loved You So Long [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I, Daniel Blake [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I, the Worst of All
[[3]] I, Tonya [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] iCarly: iGo to Japan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ice Age: Collision Course [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ice Fantasy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ice Princess [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ich mochte kein Mann sein [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ida [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Idiot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Idiots [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Idlewild [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] If Beale Street Could Talk
[[3]] If I Stay [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] If I Were You [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] If These Walls Could Talk 2
[[3]] Il caimano (The Caiman) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Il marchese del Grillo
[[3]] Il racconto dei racconti [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Il richiamo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ill Manors [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Imagine Me & You [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Imitation of Life [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Imitation of Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Immigrant [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Immortal (Ad Vitam) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Import/Export [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Importance of Being Earnest [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Imprint [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Impromptu [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In a World... [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In Fabric [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In Her Shoes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In my country
[[3]] In My Skin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In Search of Santa [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Bedroom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Courtyard [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Cut [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In The Dark Half [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Heights [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Loop [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] In the Realm of the Senses
[[3]] In the Time of the Butterflies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The In-Laws
[[3]] Incendies
[[3]] Inception [1 review(s) available] [38 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inch'Allah [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Incredible Jessica James [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Incredibles 2 [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Incredibles [4 review(s) available] [13 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Independence Day [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Independence Day: Resurgence [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Indian Summer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Indiscreet
[[3]] Indiscreet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Infamous [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Infestation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Infiltrator [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Infinitely Polar Bear [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Influencer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inglourious Basterds [3 review(s) available] [22 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ingrid Goes West [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inherit the Wind [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Inheritance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Initiation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ink
[[3]] Inkheart [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inland Empire [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Inn of the Sixth Happiness [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Innan vi dor [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Innkeepers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Innocence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Innocence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Innocents [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inside [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inside Daisy Clover [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inside Man [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inside Out [14 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inside Out 2 [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Insidious [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Insidious: Chapter 3 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Instant Family [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Instructions Not Included [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Insurgent [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Interiors
[[3]] The Intern [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Interstellar [17 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Intimate Stories [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Into Our Own Hands [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Into the Forest [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Into the Storm [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Into the Woods [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Into the Woods
[[3]] Into The Woods [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Intolerable Cruelty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Introducing Dorothy Dandridge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Intruders [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Invasion of the Body Snatchers [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inventory [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Invisible Man
[[3]] Invisible Sister [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Invisible Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Invitation to a Murder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Invitation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Invitation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ip Man 4: The Finale [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.

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 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.

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.
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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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