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

[[0]] Essential Killing
[[2]] Essex and Elizabeth
[[0]] Estômago
[[2]] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eternals [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Ethicist [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Etz Limon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eulogy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Euphoria
[[0]] Europa
[[2]] Europa Europa [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Europa Report [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Europe '51 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] EuroTrip [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eva [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evangelion: 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eve N’ God : This Female Is Not Yet Rated [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eve's Bayou
[[3]] Evelyn Prentice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
[[3]] Evening
[[3]] Event Horizon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ever After [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Everest [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Everlasting Moments
[[3]] Every Secret Thing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Every Time a Bell Rings [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Everybody Wants Some [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Everybody's Fine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Everything Everywhere All at Once [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Everything Must Go [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Everything Will Change
[[3]] Everything, Everything [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Evil
[[3]] The Evil Cult [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evil Dead [19 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evil Dead II [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evil Dead Rise [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Evil Dead [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Evil Next Door [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evil Under the Sun [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evita
[[0]] Evolution [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Evolution [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ex Drummer [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ex Machina [27 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Exam [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Examined Life
[[1]] Excalibur [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Excision [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Executive Suite [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Exile
[[1]] eXistenZ [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Exit 117 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Exit Humanity [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Exit Marrakech [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Exit Through the Gift Shop [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Exodus [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Exodus: Gods and Kings [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Exorcism of Emily Rose
[[3]] The Exorcist [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Expendables 2 [9 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Expendables 3 [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Expendables
[[0]] The Experiment [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Experimenter
[[2]] Explanation For Everything [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Explosion of a Motor Car (a.k.a The Dlights of Automobiling) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Exterminating Angel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Extirpador de Idolatrias [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Extracted [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Extraction [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Extraction
[[3]] The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
[[1]] Extraordinary You
[[2]] Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Extremis [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eye for an Eye [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eye in the Sky [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eye of the Beholder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eye of the Devil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Eye [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Eyes of an Angel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Eyes of Tammy Faye [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Eyes Wide Open [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eyes Wide Shut [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eyewitness [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] F/X [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] F1 The Movie
[[3]] F9 - The Fast Saga [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood for Love) [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fabelmans [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
[[1]] Face/Off [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Faces in the Crowd [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fack ju Gohte [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Factory [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Factotum [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Faculty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fade to Black [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fading Gigolo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fado, a Singer's Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fahim [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fahrenheit 451 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fai bei sogni [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fail-Safe [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] failure to launch
[[3]] Fair Game
[[3]] Fall [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fall Guy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fall [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fall
[[1]] Fallen Angels [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Falling Cat [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Falling Down [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Falling [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fame [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Familiar Grounds
[[3]] Family Fang [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Family guy [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Family Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Family Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Family Plot [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Family Stone [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Family That Preys [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Family Weekend [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Family [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fan [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fanboys [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fandango [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fanny and Alexander [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fanny, Annie & Danny
[[0]] Fantasia [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fantasia 2000 [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fantasmas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them [1 review(s) available] [17 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fantastic Four [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fantastic Four [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fantastic Four
[[1]] The Fantastic Four: First Steps
[[3]] Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fantastic Mr. Fox [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fantastic Planet [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fantastic Voyage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fantasy Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Far and Away [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Far from Heaven [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Far From the Madding Crowd [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Far North [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Farewell My Concubine [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Farewell to the King [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Farewell [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fargo [21 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Farha [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Faroeste caboclo [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Farval Falkenberg
[[3]] Fashion
[[1]] Fast & Furious [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fast and Furious 6 [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fast and the Furious [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fast and the Furious [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fast Color [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fast Five [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fast Food Nation
[[3]] Fast Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fast Times at Ridgemont High [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fast X [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Faster [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
[[3]] Fat Girl
[[0]] Fat Kid Rules the World
[[3]] Fat Like Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fat Man and Little Boy
[[3]] Fatal Attraction [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fatal Beauty
[[3]] Fatal Instinct [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fatal Rejuvenation
[[1]] Fatal Rescue
[[3]] Fate Is the Hunter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fate of the Furious [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
[[3]] Father Goose [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fatherhood
[[3]] Fathers & Daughters
[[3]] The Fault in Our Stars [14 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Faults [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Faust [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fauve [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Favourite [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fawlty Towers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fay Grim [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 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:

2026-01-29 22:57: [[0]] We Bury the Dead (2024)
2026-01-29 22:55: [[0]] Madagascar (2005)
2026-01-29 17:12: [[3]] No Other Choice (2025)
2026-01-29 16:55: [[0]] The Illusionist (2006)
2026-01-29 16:51: [[1]] Dead Man's Wire (2025)

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

Review sites

Women & Hollywood

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