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]] Her Smell [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Her Story [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Herb & Dorothy
[[3]] Herbie Fully Loaded
[[3]] Hercules [1 review(s) available] [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hercules [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hercules [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail
[[3]] Hereditary [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heretic [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hero
[[3]] The Heroic Trio [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Herself [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heruta sukeruta
[[1]] Hesher
[[3]] Heung joh chow heung yau chow (Turn Left, Turn Right) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hick [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hidden [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hidden Agenda [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Hidden Face
[[3]] Hidden Figures [6 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hidden Fortress [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hidden Half (Nimeh-ye penhan)
[[3]] Hide and Seek
[[3]] Hideaway (Le refuge)
[[3]] Hideous Kinky
[[1]] High Anxiety
[[3]] High Art
[[3]] High Crimes [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] High Fidelity [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] High Ground [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Heels and Low Lifes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] High Noon [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The High Note [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] High Plains Drifter [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] High Rise [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High School Musical [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High School Musical 2 (TV Movie) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High School Musical 3: Senior Year [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] High Sierra
[[3]] High Society [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] High Strung [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Tension [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] High Tide [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Higher Ground [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Higher Learning [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Highlander [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Highlander II [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Highway [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Highway to Hellas [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Highwaymen
[[0]] The Hilarious Posters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hill Where Lionesses Roar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hills Have Eyes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hills Have Eyes
[[3]] Himizu [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hiraeth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hiroshima Maiden [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] His Girl Friday [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] His House [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The History Boys [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The History of Future Folk
[[1]] History of the World: Part I [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hit and Run [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hit Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hit Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hitch [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hitch-Hiker [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hitchcock [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hitched [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hitchhikers [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Hitman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The hitman’s apprentice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hitman's Bodyguard [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Hitman: Agent 47 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hits [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hjartat
[[0]] The Hobbit [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [45 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug [16 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Hobo with a Shotgun [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hobson's Choice [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The hockey girls
[[3]] Hocus Pocus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hocus Pocus 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hogfather [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hold That Ghost
[[1]] Hold the Dark [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Holdovers [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hole [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Holes [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Holidate
[[3]] Holiday [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Holiday [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hollow Man [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hollow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hollywood Complex [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hollywood Homicide
[[2]] Hollywoodland [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Holy Girl
[[1]] Holy Motors [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Holy Mountain [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Holy Smoke [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Alone [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Alone 2: Lost in New York [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Alone 3 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home for the holidays [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home on the Range [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Home Room
[[2]] Homefront [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Homesman [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Homestuck
[[1]] Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
[[1]] Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Honey Boy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Honey, I Shrunk the Kids [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Honeymoon Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Honeymoon Killers
[[3]] The Honor List [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hoodwinked!
[[2]] Hook [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hoosiers [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hop [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hope and Glory [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hope Floats [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hope Springs [2 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hopeful [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Horde [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horns [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horrible Bosses [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Horrible Bosses 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horror Planet [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Horse Feathers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Horse Girl
[[1]] Horton Hears a Who!
[[3]] Host [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Host [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Host [17 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hostel [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hostel: Part II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hostiles
[[3]] The Hot Chick [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hot Flashes [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hot Fuzz [7 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hot Pursuit
[[1]] Hot Rod
[[1]] Hot Shots!
[[3]] Hot Shots! Part Deux [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hot Thrills and Warm Chills [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hot Tub Time Machine [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hot Wheels: World Race Highway 35 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotarubi no Mori e (To the Forest of Firefly Lights) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel Artemis [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel For Dogs [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hotel Mumbai [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Hotel Rwanda [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel Transylvania [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel Transylvania 2 [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Hound of the Baskervilles [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hound of the Baskervilles [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hounds of Love
[[3]] Hour of the Star [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hour of the Wolf
[[3]] The Hours [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House at the End of the Street [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House Bunny [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House II: The Second Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of 1000 Corpses
[[1]] House of Cards
[[1]] House of D
[[2]] House of Dark Shadows [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of Games [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] House of Gucci [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of Sand and Fog [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] House of the Dead [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of the Dead 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House of the Devil [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The House of the Devil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of Tolerance [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of Voices (Saint Ange) [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] House of Wax [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House of Wax [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House of Yes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House on Haunted Hill [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] House on Willow Street [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House That Dripped Blood [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The House That Jack Built [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:

2026-01-30 13:05: [[1]] Sirât (2025)
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)

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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