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]] 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]] Nonnas [1 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 [2 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]] Nosferatu [6 comment(s) available]
[[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 You See Me: Now You Don't [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]] Nugget is Dead?: A Christmas Story [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]] Oddity [1 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 Battle After Another [1 comment(s) available]
[[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]
[[3]] Orphan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Orphan Black [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Orphanage [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Orphans of the Storm
[[3]] Osaka Elegy
[[3]] Osmosis Jones [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Otac na sluzbenom putu [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Other Boleyn Girl
[[3]] Other Halves [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Other People [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Other People's Money [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Other Side of Underneath [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Other Sister [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Other Woman [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Otherhood
[[3]] The Others [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ouija [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ouija: Origin of Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Drawings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Family Wedding [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Idiot Brother [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Kind of Traitor
[[3]] Our Little Sister [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our RoboCop Remake [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Summer in Tehran
[[3]] Out at the Wedding [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Out in the Night
[[3]] Out of Africa [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Out of the Dark [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Outbreak [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Outcast [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Outrageous Fortune [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Outside In [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Over Her Dead Body [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Over the Hedge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Over the Moon [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Overboard [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Overboard [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Overnight [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oxygen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oz the Great and Powerful [2 review(s) available] [21 comment(s) available]
[[3]] P.S. I Love You [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] P2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pacific Rim: Uprising [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Pacifier [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Pact [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paddington [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paddington 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paddington in Peru [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Page Turner
[[3]] The Painted Veil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Palm Springs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Palo Alto [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pandemic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pane e burlesque
[[3]] Panic Room [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paper Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paper Heart
[[3]] Paper Moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Paperboy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Papicha [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paprika [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paprika [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parada [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paradies: Liebe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paradise Road
[[3]] Paradise, Hawaiian Style [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parallel Mothers [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parallels [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paranormal Activity [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paranormal Activity 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paranormal Activity 3
[[3]] Paranormal Activity 4 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] ParaNorman [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parched [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Parent Trap II
[[3]] The Parent Trap [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Parent Trap
[[3]] Parental Guidance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parenthood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pariah [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paris Blues [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paris is Burning [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paris je t'aime [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades, Paris 13e) [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 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.
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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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