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]] Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nancy Drew... Reporter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nanny Diaries [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nanny [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nappily Ever Aftet [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nashville [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen)
[[3]] Nasty Old People [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nathalie... [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] National Treasure: Book of Secrets [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] National Velvet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Natural Born Killers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Naughty Marietta
[[3]] Nayola [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nebraska [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Neighboring Sounds [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Neighbors [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Neko no ongaeshi (The cat returns) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Neon City [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Neon Demon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nerve [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Net [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Network [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Never Been Kissed [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Never Let Me Go [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Never Rarely Sometimes Always [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] New Moon [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The New Mutants [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] New Nightmare [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] New Waterford Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The New World [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] New Year's Eve
[[3]] New York Minute [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] News of the World [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Next Gen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Next Karate Kid [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Next Stop L.A. [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Next Stop Wonderland [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Next Three Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ngati [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nice Girls Don't Explode [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nice Guys [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nicholas and Alexandra [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nick of Time
[[3]] Night at the Museum [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night Catches Us
[[3]] The Night Flier [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Night Heaven Fell [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night Nurse [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night of the Comet [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night of the Demon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night of the Felines [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Night of the Hunter [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night of the Living Dead [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night of the Living Dead 3D [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night on Earth
[[3]] NIght School [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nightbreed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nightcrawler [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nightmare City [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nights of Cabiria
[[3]] Nikita
[[3]] Nikutai no mon [Gate of Flesh] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nil Battey Sannata [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nim's Island [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] Nimona [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nina [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nina's Heavenly Delights [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ninas Mal [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nine Lives
[[3]] Nine to Five (9 to 5) [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ninotchka [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Country for Old Men [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Exit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Good Deed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Hard Feelings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No One Killed Jessica [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Reservations [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Strings Attached [1 review(s) available] [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Sudden Move [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Way Out [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Noah [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nocturnal Animals [4 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Noelle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nogemu noraifu: Zero [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nomadland [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Non-Stop [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Norm of the North [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Norma Rae [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Normal People
[[3]] North and South [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The North Avenue Irregulars [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] North Country [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Northanger Abbey [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Norwegian Wood
[[3]] Not Another Teen Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Not Cool [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Not Fade Away [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Not Okay [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao)
[[3]] The Notebook [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Notes on a Scandal
[[3]] Nothing But the Truth
[[3]] Nothing Personal [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Notting Hill [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Novelist's Film (So-seol-ga-ui Yeong-hwa) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Novitiate [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Now and Then [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Now Is Good [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Now, Voyager [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhere [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhere [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhere Boy [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhere in Africa [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhereland [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Numero deux [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The nun II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nun's Story [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nun [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nut Job [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nutcracker and the Four Realms [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nyad [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nymphomaniac: Volume 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] O Desolado [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] O Tempo e o Vento [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Object of Beauty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oblivion [28 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Obvious Child [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ocean Drive Weekend [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ocean's 8 [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] October Baby [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oculus [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Odd Life of Timothy Green [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Odd Thomas [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Odessa File [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Odette [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Off the Map [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Office [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Office Christmas Party [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Official Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Offline [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Offside [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Okami kodomo no ame to yuki [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Okja [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oklahoma! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Okuribito (Departures) [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Old [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Old Acquaintance
[[3]] The Old Dark House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Old Dogs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Old Guard [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] Older Than America [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] OM+ME [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Omen [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Omohide poro poro [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Omoide no Mani (When Marnie Was There) [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] On Body and Soul [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] On the Basis of Sex [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] On the Town
[[3]] On Tour [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Once Bitten [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Once Upon a Forest [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Once Upon a Warrior
[[3]] Ondine
[[3]] One Fine Morning [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One for the Money [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Hundred and One Dalmatians [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The One I Love [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Million Yen Girl
[[3]] One Piece: Film Red [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One, Two, Three [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Only God Forgives [1 review(s) available] [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Only Lovers Left Alive [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Only Son [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Only Two Can Play [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Onward [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Open Road [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Open Water 2: Adrift [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Opera [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Operation: Endgame [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ophelia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Opie Gets Laid [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Opposite of Sex
[[3]] Or
[[3]] Oranges and Sunshine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Oranges [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 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:

2024-10-04 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)
2024-09-30 22:44: [[3]] V for Vendetta (2005)

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.

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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

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Women & Hollywood

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