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]] Women Aren't Funny [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Women in Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Women on the 6th Floor
[[3]] Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Women Talking [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Women Who Kill
[[3]] Women's Day (Dzien kobiet) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Women's Prison Massacre [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Women [5 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Women [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Won't Back Down [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonder Park [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonder Wheel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonder Woman [1 review(s) available] [36 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonder Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonder Woman 1984 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonder Women [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonka
[[3]] The Woods
[[3]] Wool 100%
[[3]] Wordplay [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Words and Pictures [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Work It [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Working Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The World According to Garp [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] World Gone Wild [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] World of Tomorrow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The world to come [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The World Unseen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] World War Z [21 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Would You Rather [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wreck-It Ralph [14 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wrecking Crew [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wrong House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wrong Turn [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wrony [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The X Files [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The X-Files: I Want to Believe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X-Men Origins: Wolverine [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X-Men: Apocalypse [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X-Men: First Class [24 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X-Men: The Last Stand [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X2 (X-Men 2) [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Xanadu [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] xXx: Return of Xander Cage [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] XXXHOLiC: Ro [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] XXXHOLiC: Shunmuki - Kouhen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] XXXHOLic: Shunmuki - Zenpen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] XXY [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Year of the Carnivore
[[3]] Year of the dog [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Year One [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Years Between [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
[[3]] Yelling to the Sky [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] YellowBrickRoad [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yentl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yeogo goedam [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yes Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yes, But... [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yes, God, Yes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yesterday Was a Lie
[[3]] Yi Yi
[[3]] Yield to the Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ying xiong (Hero) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yip Man: Jung gik yat jin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yobi, the Five-Tailed Fox (Cheon-nyeon-yeo-woo-yeo-woo-bi) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You
[[3]] You Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You Get Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You Got Served [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You Instead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You Will Never Be Back [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You're Next [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You're Not You [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] You've Got Mail [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Young Adult [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Young Arsonists [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Young Girls of Rochefort [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Young justice
[[3]] The Young Lovers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Young Offenders [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Young Victoria [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Your Christmas or Mine? [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Your Friends and Neighbors [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Your Sister's Sister
[[3]] Yours, Mine and Ours [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yummy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Z-O-M-B-I-E-S [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zack Snyder's Justice League [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zaion: I Wish You Were Here [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zazie dans le metro [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zenon: The Zequel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Zepotha Killer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zero Dark Thirty [1 review(s) available] [26 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zero Motivation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zoe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zola
[[3]] Zombeavers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Zombie Diaries [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zombie Hunter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zombie Strippers! [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zombieland [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zombieland: Double Tap [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zombies 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Zone of Interest [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zoolander [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zoom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zoombies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zoombies 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zootopia [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zwartboek [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] [Rec] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] [REC]3 Genesis [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] !Three Amigos! [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] "Masters of Horror" Family [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] "Masters of Horror" Pick Me Up [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] "The Backyardigans" International Super Spy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 13 Hours [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 18 comidas
[[2]] 21 Jump Street [14 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 22 Jump St [10 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 25th Hour [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 30 Days of Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 42 [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 47 Ronin [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 48 Hrs. [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 50 First Dates [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 50/50 [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The 5th Wave [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 65 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Bittersweet Life (Dalkomhan insaeng) [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Bucket of Blood [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A coup sur [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Day at the Races [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Florida Enchantment [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Goofy Movie [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Halloween Puppy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Knight's Tale
[[2]] A Life Less Ordinary [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Man Called Otto [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Man Wanted (Hatooly Ragel)
[[2]] A Midsummer Night's Dream [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Million Ways to Die in the West [8 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Most Wanted Man
[[2]] A Perfect Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A River Runs Through It [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Serious Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Special Day [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Thousand Words
[[2]] A Touch of Class
[[2]] A Walk in the Woods [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Woman of Paris
[[2]] Abel Gance's Napoleon
[[2]] About a Boy
[[2]] About Last Night
[[2]] The Accidental Tourist [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Accountant [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Accursed [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ace In The Hole [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ace Ventura: Pet Detective [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Act of Violence
[[2]] Adam [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Adulthood [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Adventures of Pluto Nash [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Adventures of Robin Hood [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Advocate's Devil
[[2]] Ae Fond Kiss... [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] After Hours [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] After the Wedding
[[2]] The Age of Consent [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Aguirre: The Wrath of God [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ajami [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Alex Strangelove [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Alexander IRL [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] All of Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] All That Jazz [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] All the Money in the World [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] All This, and Heaven Too
[[2]] Almost Mercy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Alpha House [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Amarcord [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Amazing Spider-Man [15 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Amazon Women on the Moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ambulance [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Ambushers [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] American Graffiti [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] American History X [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] American Pie [2 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

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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:

2024-09-19 06:33: [[3]] The Giver (2014)
2024-09-17 19:44: [[3]] Freaky Friday (1976)
2024-09-16 22:49: [[3]] Life as a House (2001)
2024-09-15 23:15: [[3]] Fright Night (2011)
2024-09-13 14:26: [[1]] Ballerina (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 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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