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

[[2]] The Contender [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Control [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Coriolanus [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Court Jester [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Crashing
[[2]] Creed [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Critters [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Crocodile Dundee II [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Crossfire [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Crying Game [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Curse of the Golden Flower [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Cyrano [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Daikaiju Gamera [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Damien: Omen II [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dark Passage [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dark Skies [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Darkest Hour [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Darkness [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Date and Switch [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Days of Being Wild [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Days of Thunder [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dead Body [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dead Ringers [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dead Snow [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dead Space: Aftermath [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dead Space: Downfall [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Deadly Friend [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Deadpool 2 [8 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dearest Love (Murmur of the Heart)
[[2]] The Death and Life of John F. Donovan [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Death to Smoochy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Deep End of the Ocean [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Deepwater Horizon [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Deliver Us From Evil
[[2]] Den of thieves [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Der Geteilte Himmel (Divided Heaven)
[[2]] Despiser [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Detroit [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Deux heures moins le quart avant Jesus-Christ [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Devil's Hand [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Devil, Probably
[[2]] Die Another Day [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Die Nibelungen
[[2]] Dirty Grandpa
[[2]] The Disciple [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Disconnect [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Do Comeco ao Fim [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Do the Right Thing [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Docks of New York [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Doctor Dolittle [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dodge City
[[2]] Dolphin Tale [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Don't Torture a Duckling
[[2]] Dr. Minx [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dracula [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dracula Has Risen from the Grave [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Draft Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] DragonHeart [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Draughtsman's Contract [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Dreamers [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Drop Zone [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Drugstore Cowboy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Drum [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Drums Along the Mohawk
[[2]] Drunk Wedding [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dude, Where's My Car [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Duel in the sun [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dumb & Dumber
[[2]] Dumbo [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Duplicity [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Earth Girls Are Easy [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Eddie the Eagle [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Eega [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ego [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ei Kiitos [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ek Villain [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] El Camino Christmas
[[2]] El regalo
[[2]] El Topo [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Elvis & Nixon [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Emmanuelle bianca e nera [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] En liberte! [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ender's Game [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Enemy at the Gates [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Enough [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Entourage [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Escape Plan [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Escobar: Paradise Lost
[[2]] Essex and Elizabeth
[[2]] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [9 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Europa Europa [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Everest [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Everybody's Fine [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Executive Suite [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Exit 117 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Exit Marrakech [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Exodus: Gods and Kings [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Experimenter
[[2]] Explanation For Everything [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Extraction
[[2]] Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fabelmans [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fading Gigolo [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fai bei sogni [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fargo [19 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fast Times at Ridgemont High [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fatal Beauty
[[2]] Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
[[2]] Fei hu wai zhuan
[[2]] The Female [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fido [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Field of Dreams [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fifty Dead Men Walking [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fighter [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Final Cut [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Final Destination 5 [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Finding Forrester [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fingernails [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fireproof [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] First Knight [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Five Nights at Freddy's [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flatland: The Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flirting [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flower Drum Song [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flowers for Algernon [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flubber [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fly [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fly [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Footnote [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] For Love of the Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Forces of Nature [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Forty Guns [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fox and the Hound [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Frankie and Johnny [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Franklyn [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Freaks [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Free Rainer
[[2]] Free State of Jones [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] French Kiss [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
[[2]] Frida [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Friday [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Friday After Next
[[2]] Friday the 13th [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Friday the 13th Part 2 [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fright Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Front Runner [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fugitive [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Full Monty [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fury [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Futurama: Bender's Big Score [8 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] G.I. Blues [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] G.O.R.A. [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gamera vs. Viras [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gandhi [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Gate [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Get On Up [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Get Real [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Ghost Writer [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ghostbusters [14 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ghostbusters II [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ghosted [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gigi [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Girl from Calgary [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Girls! Girls! Girls! [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Glass [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Glenn Miller Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Go [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Godfather [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Godfather: Part II [8 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gods of Egypt [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Godzilla [13 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Godzilla Raids Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Going Places [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Golden Era [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gone in the Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Good News [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Goodbye, Mr. Chips
[[2]] Goon: Last of the Enforcers [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Goosebumps [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Graduate [2 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gran Torino [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gray Lady Down [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Gray Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Great Expectations [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Greatest Show on Earth [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Greetings from Tim Buckley [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gremlins 2: The New Batch [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Groundhog Day [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Grown Ups 2 [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Guava Island [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gueros [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Guilty as sin [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gunfighters
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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 10408 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-10-05 22:31: [[3]] Lullaby (2022)
2024-10-03 16:09: [[3]] The Harry Hill Movie (2013)
2024-09-30 20:46: [[3]] Abigail (2024)
2024-09-29 20:33: [[3]] The Planters Plantation (2022)
2024-09-28 19:17: [[3]] Giant (1956)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-11-09 22:34: [[3]] South Pacific (1958)
2024-11-09 14:34: [[3]] Look back (2024)
2024-11-09 13:03: [[3]] Upgraded (2024)
2024-11-09 01:33: [[3]] Heretic (2024)
2024-11-07 04:02: [[2]] 20th Century Girl (2022)

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 10408 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.
An RSS feed[RSS icon] is also available, listing the latest 50 movies added to the list.

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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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