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]] Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scheherazade Tell Me a Story
[[3]] Schindler's List [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The School for Good and Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] School for Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The School of Rock [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Schtonk [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Science of Sleep [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scoob [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scooby-Doo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scooby-Doo! and The Witch’s Ghost [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scott and Bailey [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scott Pilgrim Takes Off [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World [2 review(s) available] [22 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scream [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scream [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scream 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scream 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scream 4 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] SCREAM VI [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Screwed in Tallinn [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Scribbler [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scrooged [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Se upp för dårarna [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sea Beast [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sea Hawk [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sea Inside [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Seagull [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Seal Team [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Search for Beauty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Searchers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Seasoning House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Seberg
[[3]] The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Secret Agent [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Secret Garden [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Secret Life of Bees
[[3]] The Secret Life of Walter Mitty [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Secret of Moonacre [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Secret of NIMH [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Secret of Roan Inish [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Secret Places
[[3]] Secret Superstar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Secret
[[3]] Secretariat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Secretary [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Secrets & Lies [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Secuestrados [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Seduced and abandoned [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] See You Yesterday [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Seed of Chucky [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Selena [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Selma [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Senior Year [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sense and Sensibility [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Senses 1&2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sensitivity Training [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sentinel [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sentinelle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Separate Tables [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] September
[[3]] Septembers of Shiraz [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Serendipity [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Serenity [16 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Serial Mom [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Servant [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Serving in Silence
[[3]] Set It Off
[[3]] Set It Up [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Seven Brides for Seven Brothers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Seven Minutes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Seven Pounds [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] seven sisters [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Seventh Continent
[[3]] Seventh Son [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Seventh Veil
[[3]] The Seventh Victim [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sex and the City [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sex and the city 2 [3 review(s) available] [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sex Ed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sex Lives of College Girls [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shack [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shadow Dancer [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shadow of a Doubt [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shag [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shakes the Clown [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shakespeare in Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shalako [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shallow Hal [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shallows [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shame
[[3]] Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shanghai Express [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shanghai Gesture
[[3]] The Shape of Water [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sharknado [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sharknado 2: The Second One [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sharknado 5: Global Swarming [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sharp Stick [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shaun of the Dead [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shazam! [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She Monkeys [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She's a Boy I Knew [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She's All That [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She's Funny That Way
[[3]] She's Gotta Have It [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She's the Man [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She-Devil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She-Ra and the Princesses of Power [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She-Wolf of London [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sheherazade [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shelter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shelter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shelter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sherlock Gnomes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sherrybaby
[[3]] Shimotsuma monogatari (Kamikaze Girls) [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shirley [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shirley Valentine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shiva Baby [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shock Treatment [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shocking Miss Pilgrim [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shojo kakumei Utena: Adolescence mokushiroku [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shop Around the Corner [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shoplifters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Short Circuit [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Short Cuts [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Short Term 12 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shortbus [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] Shotgun Stories [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Show Boat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Show Me Love [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Showdown in Little Tokyo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Showgirls [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shrek 2 [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shrek the Third [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shrine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shrooms [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shunning [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Side Effects [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sideline Secrets [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sideways [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sierra Burgess Is a Loser [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sightseers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Signature Move
[[3]] The Silence of the Lambs [15 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Silence [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Silence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Silent Hill [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Silent Hill: Revelation 3D [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Silent House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Silent Night, Bloody Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Silent Night, Deadly Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Silkwood [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Silver Linings Playbook [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Simpsons Movie [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sin City [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sin Seer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Since You Went Away [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sing [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sing 2 [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Singin' in the Rain [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Single All The Way [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Single Moms Club [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Single White Female [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Single White Female 2: The Psycho [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sirens
[[3]] Sissi - The Young Empress
[[3]] Sister Act [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sister Aimee [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sister Mary Explains it All [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sister My Sister [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sisterhood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sisters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sisters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sisters in Law [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sisters Plotz [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sitter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Six Degrees of Separation
[[3]] Sixteen Candles [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sixth Sense [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Skate Kitchen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Skeleton Key [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Skeleton Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Skeleton Twins [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Skeletons [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Skin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Skin Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Skin I Live In [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Skinny [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Skippy [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.

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Recent activity

Currently 10289 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-05-28 19:45: [[3]] Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
2024-05-08 03:41: [[3]] Tarot (2024)
2024-04-26 20:34: [[1]] Lady Parts (2024)
2024-04-14 06:16: [[3]] Wicked Little Letters (2023)
2024-04-09 11:12: [[1]] Imaginary (2024)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-07-04 06:40: [[0]] Grey's Anatomy (2005)
2024-07-02 13:52: [[1]] Christmas at the Ranch (2021)
2024-06-30 23:53: [[2]] Lenny (1974)
2024-06-30 18:12: [[3]] Dune: Part Two (2024)
2024-06-29 11:30: [[1]] The Bikeriders (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 10289 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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