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

1999 (153 movies)

[[3]] 10 Things I Hate About You [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The 13th Warrior [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 200 Cigarettes
[[3]] The 4th Floor [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 6ixtynin9
[[1]] 8MM [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Midsummer Night's Dream [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Walk on the Moon
[[3]] Aimee & Jaguar
[[3]] American Beauty [1 review(s) available] [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] American Pie [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Analyze This
[[3]] Anna and the King [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Annie [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Any Given Sunday [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anywhere But Here [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Aristocrats [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Audition [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Beau travail [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Beautiful People
[[3]] Being John Malkovich [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Better Than Chocolate [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bicentennial Man
[[2]] Big Daddy [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Big Kahuna [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Black and White
[[3]] The Blair Witch Project
[[3]] Blast from the Past [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Blue Streak
[[0]] The Boondock Saints [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bowfinger [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Boys Don't Cry [1 review(s) available] [8 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bridge of Dragons [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Brokedown Palace [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] But I'm a Cheerleader [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Carrie 2: The Rage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Cider House Rules [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cruel Intentions [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Deep Blue Sea [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Deep End of the Ocean [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dick [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Digimon Adventure [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dogma [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Double Jeopardy
[[3]] Double Platinum [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Drop Dead Gorgeous [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] East Is East [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] EdTV [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Election [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] eXistenZ [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eyes Wide Shut [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Family guy [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fantasia 2000 [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fight Club [1 review(s) available] [15 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flawless [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] For Love of the Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Forces of Nature [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Galaxy Quest [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gigantics [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girl, Interrupted
[[3]] Go!
[[1]] The Green Mile [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hōhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun (My Neighbors the Yamadas
[[3]] The Haunting [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Holy Smoke [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Human Traffic [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Hurricane [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Idle Hands [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Inferno [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Introducing Dorothy Dandridge [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Iron Giant [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jawbreaker [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Johnny Tsunami [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Juha [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Kikujiro
[[3]] Lake Placid
[[1]] Life
[[3]] Los sin nombre [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Magnolia [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Man on the Moon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mansfield Park [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Matrix [1 review(s) available] [26 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Memento Mori
[[1]] Message in a Bottle
[[1]] The Mummy [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Muppets From Space [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Music of the Heart
[[1]] Mystery Men [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Never Been Kissed [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] New Waterford Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Ninth Gate [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao)
[[3]] Notting Hill [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] October Sky [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Office Space [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Other Sister [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Outer Space [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Payback [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pocket Monsters: Mewtwo Strikes Back! [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ravenous [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Redball [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ring [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ring 2 (Ringu 2) [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Runaway Bride [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scooby-Doo! and The Witch’s Ghost [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Screwed in Tallinn [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She's All That [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shojo kakumei Utena: Adolescence mokushiroku [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sixth Sense [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sleepy Hollow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Smart House [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sonnenallee
[[3]] South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Splendor [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Stigmata [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Storm of the Century [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Straight Story [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Stuart Little [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sweet and Lowdown [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Talented Mr. Ripley [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Tarzan [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tea with Mussolini [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Teaching Mrs. Tingle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Terror Firmer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Thirteenth Year [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Thomas Crown Affair [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Three Kings [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Three to Tango
[[3]] Titus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother) [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tomie [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Tomie: Anaza Feisu [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Topsy-Turvy [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Toy Story 2 [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Trick [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Vendetta [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Virgin Suicides [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Virus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Why Not Me?
[[2]] Wild Wild West [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Wing Commander [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wives and Daughters [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The World is Not Enough [2 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.

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 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:

2025-12-14 06:11: [[3]] Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
2025-12-14 04:21: [[3]] The Incredibles (2004)
2025-12-14 04:00: [[3]] Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
2025-12-13 21:24: [[3]] Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025)
2025-12-10 15:42: [[2]] Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

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.

You can also view the list sorted by 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.

You can view just the Movies in the IMDb Top 250 and last but not least, you can search the list.

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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