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]] Once Bitten [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Once Upon a Forest [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood [10 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Once Upon A Time In America [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Once upon a time in Anatolia [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Once Upon a Time in Mexico [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Once Upon a Time in the West [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Once Upon a Time in Vietnam [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Once Upon a Warrior
[[0]] Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ondine
[[3]] One Battle After Another [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] One Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Fine Morning [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One for the Money [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] One Hot Summer [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] One Hour Photo [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Hundred and One Dalmatians [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The One I Love [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] One Million Years B.C. [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Million Yen Girl
[[2]] One Night in Miami... [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] one night in san diego [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] One of Them Days [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Piece: Film Red [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] One Point O
[[0]] The One [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One, Two, Three [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The One-Man Band [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ong-bak [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Onibaba [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Only Angels Have Wings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Only God Forgives [1 review(s) available] [9 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Only Living Boy in New York [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Only Lovers Left Alive [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Only Son [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Only the Brave [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Only Two Can Play [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Onward [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Open Road [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Open Season
[[1]] Open Water [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Open Water 2: Adrift [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Open Water 3: Cage Dive [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Open Your Eyes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Opera [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Operation Finale
[[3]] Operation: Endgame [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ophelia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Opie Gets Laid [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Oppenheimer [1 review(s) available] [33 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Opposite of Sex
[[3]] Or
[[3]] Oranges and Sunshine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Oranges [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Orca [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Order [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Order [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ordinary Decent Criminal
[[2]] Ordinary People [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Orgazmo [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Original Sin
[[2]] Orlando [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Orphan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Orphan Black [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Orphanage [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Orphans of the Storm
[[2]] Orpheus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Osaka Elegy
[[2]] Oscar
[[1]] Osenniy marafon
[[1]] Oslo, 31. august
[[3]] Osmosis Jones [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] OSS 117: Lost in Rio
[[1]] Ossessione [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Otac na sluzbenom putu [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Othello [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Other Boleyn Girl
[[2]] The Other Guys [1 review(s) available] [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Other Halves [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Other People [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Other People's Money [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Other Side of Underneath [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Other Sister [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Other Woman [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Otherhood
[[1]] OtherLife [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Others [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ouija [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ouija: Origin of Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Our Dancing Daughters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Drawings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Family Wedding [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Our Hospitality
[[3]] Our Idiot Brother [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Kind of Traitor
[[3]] Our Little Sister [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Our Man Flint [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our RoboCop Remake [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Summer in Tehran
[[3]] Out at the Wedding [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Out in the Dark
[[3]] Out in the Night
[[3]] Out of Africa [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Out of Sight [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Out of the Dark [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Out of the Furnace [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Outbreak [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Outcast [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Outer Space [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Outland [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Outlaw
[[2]] The Outlaw Josey Wales [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Outpost [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Outrage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Outrageous Fortune [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Outside In [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Outside the Law
[[2]] The Outsiders [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Outsourced
[[3]] Over Her Dead Body [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Over the Hedge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Over the Moon [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Overboard [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Overboard [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Overcome [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Overlord [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Overnight [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Owning Mahowny [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Ox-Bow Incident [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oxygen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oz the Great and Powerful [2 review(s) available] [21 comment(s) available]
[[3]] P.S. I Love You [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] P2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Pa Boys [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Paa
[[1]] Pacific Rim [30 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pacific Rim: Uprising [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Pacifier [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Pact [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paddington [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paddington 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paddington in Peru [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Paddleton [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Page One: Inside the New York Times [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Page Turner
[[1]] The Pagemaster [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pain & Gain [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Paint Your Wagon [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Painted Veil
[[3]] The Painted Veil [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Pale Blue Eye [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Pale Rider [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Paleface
[[1]] Palindromes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Palm Springs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Palo Alto [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Palombella rossa [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pan [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pandemic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pandorum [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pane e burlesque
[[0]] Panic in the Streets [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Panic Room [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Papadopoulos & Sons [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paper Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paper Heart
[[3]] Paper Moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Paper Planes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Paperboy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Papertowns [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Papicha [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Papillon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paprika [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paprika [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parada [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paradies: Liebe [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Paradine Case [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Paradise Now [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paradise Road
[[3]] Paradise, Hawaiian Style [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Parallax View
[[3]] Parallel Mothers [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parallels [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paranormal Activity [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paranormal Activity 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paranormal Activity 3
[[3]] Paranormal Activity 4 [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] ParaNorman [8 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Parasakthi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parched [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Pardon Us [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Parent Trap II
[[3]] The Parent Trap [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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