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]] Fear [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fear and Desire
[[1]] Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
[[1]] Fear of a Black hat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fear Street: Part One - 1994 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fear X [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fearless Vampire Killers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Feds [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Feeding Frenzy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Feeheld [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Feel the Beat [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Feher isten [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fei hu wai zhuan
[[3]] Felicite
[[1]] Felidae [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Female [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Female Brain [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Female Perversions
[[3]] Female Trouble
[[3]] Female Vampire [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Female [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Femme Fatale [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fences [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fencing
[[3]] Ferdinand [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ferfiakt
[[0]] Fermat's Room [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] FernGully: The Last Rainforest [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ferris Bueller's Day Off [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Festen (The Celebration) [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fever Pitch [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fido [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Field of Dreams [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fields of the Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fierce Creatures [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fifth Element [1 review(s) available] [8 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fifth Estate [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fifty Dead Men Walking [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] fifty shade freed
[[3]] Fifty Shades Darker [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fifty Shades of Grey [27 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fight Club [1 review(s) available] [15 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fighter [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fighting [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fighting with My Family [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Filth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fin [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Final Countdown
[[3]] Final Cut [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Final Cut [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Final Destination [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Destination 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Destination 3 [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Final Destination 5 [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Final Destination [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Destination: Bloodlines [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Fantasy XV [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Final Girls [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Final Level: Escaping Rancala [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Finch [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Finder's Fee [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Finding 'Ohana [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Finding Bliss [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Finding Dory [8 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Finding Forrester [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Finding Mr. Right [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Finding Nemo [14 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Finding Neverland [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Finest Hours [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fingernails [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fingersmith [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Finsterworld [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Finye (The Wind)
[[3]] Fire
[[0]] Fire Down Below [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fire Inside [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fire Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fired Up! [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fireproof [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fires Were Started
[[1]] Fireworks
[[3]] The Firm [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] First Blood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] First Girl I Loved [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] First Knight [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] First Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] First Match [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] First Men in the Moon
[[3]] First Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] First Period [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The First Purge [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] First Reformed [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] First Spaceship on Venus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The First Wives Club [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fish Tank [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fisher King [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fist Fight
[[1]] The Fits [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Five Across the Eyes
[[3]] Five Easy Pieces [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Five Feet Apart [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Five Heartbeats [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Five Nights at Freddy's [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Five Obstructions [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Five-Year Engagement [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fjellet
[[1]] Flags of Our Fathers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flame in the Streets [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flame of My Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flamin’ Hot [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flaming Star [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flamingo Road [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flareup [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flash Gordon [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flash of Genius
[[1]] The Flash
[[1]] The Flash [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flashback [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flashdance [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flatfoot in Hong Kong
[[2]] Flatland: The Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flatliners [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flawless [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flesh and the Devil [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flesh+Blood [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fletch [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fletch Lives [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flight [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flight of the Living Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flight of the Navigator [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Flight of the Phoenix
[[0]] The Flight of the Phoenix [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flightplan [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Flintstones [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flipped [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flirting [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Float Like A Butterfly [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Florence Foster Jenkins [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flores Raras [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Florida Project [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Flow [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flower [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flower Drum Song [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flowers for Algernon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flowers in the Attic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flowing [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flubber [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flukt
[[0]] Flushed Away [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flux Gourmet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fly Away Home [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fly Me to the Moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fly me to the moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fly [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fly [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flying [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Flying Deuces [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Flying Saucer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flypaper [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Focus [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fog [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Fog [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Follow That Dream [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Following [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fong Sai Yuk [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Food Stamped
[[3]] Foolish Wives [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Footlight Parade [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Footloose [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Footnote [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For 80 Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] For a Few Dollars More
[[3]] For a Good Time, Call... [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Colored Girls
[[3]] For Elisa [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] For Heaven's Sake [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Here or To Go? [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] For Love of the Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Me and My Gal [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Richer or Poorer [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Sama [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For the Boys [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For the Love of a Child [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Your Consideration [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] For Your Eyes Only [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Forbidden Games [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Forbidden Kingdom [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Forbidden Planet [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Forbidden World [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Forces of Nature [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ford v Ferrari [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Foreign Correspondent [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Foreign Letters [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.

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.

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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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