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]] Les triplettes de Belleville [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Les Tuche [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Les yeux sans visage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lesbian Vampire Killers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Let Me Go [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Let Us Prey [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Let's Scare Jessica to Death [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lethal Games [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lethal Weapon 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Letters to Juliet [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Level 16 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Leviathan [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Leviathan [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lianna [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Libertarias [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Liberty's Secret
[[3]] The Librarian: Quest for the Spear [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lick the Star
[[3]] Licorice Pizza [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lies I Told My Little Sister [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life as We Know It [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Life Before Her Eyes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life During Wartime
[[3]] Life Inside Out [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life Is a Bed of Roses [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life Is Sweet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life Itself [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life of Brian [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life of the Party [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life or Something Like It [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life Partners [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life Without Principle [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life-Size [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lifeboat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lifeguard [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Light Between Oceans [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Light of Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lights Out [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Like a Boss [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Like Crazy [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Like Sunday, Like Rain [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lilo and Stitch [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lilya 4-Ever [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lincoln [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Linda Linda Linda [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Linefork [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Linguini Incident
[[3]] The Lion in Winter
[[3]] The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lion King [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lion's Den
[[3]] Liquid Sky
[[3]] Little Big Master [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Birds
[[3]] Little Children [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Darlings [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Door Gods [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Engine That Could [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Fish
[[3]] Little Girl
[[3]] The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Hours [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Joe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Manhattan
[[3]] The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Mermaid [4 review(s) available] [24 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Mermaid [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Miss Sunshine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The little prince
[[3]] Little Sister [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Little Things [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Voice
[[3]] Little White Lies
[[3]] Little Women [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Women
[[3]] Little Women [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Women [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Liu hao chukou (Exit No. 6) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Living Bad [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Liza, the fox fairy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lizzie Bennet Diaries [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lizzie Borden Took An Ax [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lizzie McGuire Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lobster [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Loenatik - De moevie
[[3]] Logan [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Logan Lucky [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lola Montès [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lola Versus
[[3]] Lolita [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lolita [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] London River
[[3]] London To Brighton [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lonely Hearts [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Long Kiss Goodnight [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Long Shot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Long Walk Home [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Longest Ride [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Look Both Ways [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Look of Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lookalike
[[3]] The Lookout [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [15 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lords of Salem [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lore [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lorna's Silence
[[3]] Los ojos de Julia (Julia's Eyes) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Los renglones torcidos de Dios [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Los santos inocentes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Los sin nombre [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
[[3]] Lost and Delirious [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lost City [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lost Daughter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lost Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lost Husband [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lost In Living [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lost in Space [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lost In Translation [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
[[3]] The Lost World: Jurassic Park [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lottery [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lourdes
[[3]] Love & Air Sex [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love & Basketball [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love & Friendship [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love & Pop [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love & Suicide [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Actually [1 review(s) available] [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Affair [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love and Death [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love and Gelato [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love and Other Catastrophes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Camp [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Happens [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Is My Profession [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Lies Bleeding [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Like Poison [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over The Rainbow [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Live! The School Idol Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love on a Pillow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love per square foot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Love Punch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Songs
[[3]] Love Streams [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Takes Wing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love the Coopers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Love Witch [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love, Rosie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lovelace [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lovely and Amazing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lovely Bones
[[3]] Lovely Molly [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lovely to Look at
[[3]] Loverboy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lovesong [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Loving [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Loving Annabelle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Low-Flying Aircraft
[[3]] Luca [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Luce [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lucia
[[3]] Luck [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lucky Girl (a.k.a. My Daughter's Secret Life) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lucky Grandma [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lucky One [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lucky Ones [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lucy [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lucy in the Sky
[[3]] Ludo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lugen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lunchbox [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lust for a Vampire [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lust for Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lust, Caution [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] M [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mädchen in Uniform [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mädchen in Uniform [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] M3GAN [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ma [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ma Rainey's Black Bottom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ma revolution
[[3]] Maborosi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Machete [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Machete Kills [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Machine [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mad Max [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mad Max: Fury Road [4 review(s) available] [83 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mad Miss Manton [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mad Money [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mad Ones [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Madame Claude [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Made In Dagenham [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Madeinusa [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Madeline [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Madeo
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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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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 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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