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

2009 (157 movies)

[[3]] The Last Station [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Last Train Home [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Law Abiding Citizen [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Le hérisson [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Lebanon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lesbian Vampire Killers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life During Wartime
[[1]] The Limits of Control [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Girl
[[3]] London River
[[1]] Looking for Eric
[[1]] Los viajes del viento
[[1]] Lost Persons Area
[[3]] Lourdes
[[3]] Love Happens [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love Takes Wing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lovely Bones
[[0]] Madea Goes to Jail [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Madeo
[[3]] The Maid [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Maiden Heist [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Make the Yuletide Gay [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Map of the Sounds of Tokyo [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mary and Max [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Men Who Stare at Goats [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Messenger
[[3]] Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Milk of Sorrow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Modern Family
[[3]] Monsters vs Aliens [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Moon [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mother and Child [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mr. Nobody [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mutants [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] My Bloody Valentine 3D
[[3]] My Last Five Girlfriends [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Queen Karo
[[3]] My Sister's Keeper [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
[[1]] Mystery Team [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nasty Old People [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Natale a Beverly Hills [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] New Moon [7 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ngai chai dor ching
[[1]] Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Nine [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ninja Assassin [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Not Since You [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nothing Personal [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhere Boy [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Old Dogs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ondine
[[2]] One Hot Summer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Opie Gets Laid [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Orphan [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] OSS 117: Lost in Rio
[[3]] Our Summer in Tehran
[[2]] Paa
[[1]] Pandorum [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paper Heart
[[1]] Paul Blart: Mall Cop
[[0]] Perrier's Bounty [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Planet 51
[[1]] Police, Adjective [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Polytechnique
[[3]] Pope Joan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire [3 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Princess and the Frog [2 review(s) available] [11 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Princess Protection Program [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Private Lives of Pippa Lee [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Proposal [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Public Enemies [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Push [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Queen to Play [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
[[3]] Redline [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Reservoir Hill [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Road [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] RoboGeisha [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Saw VI [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scheherazade Tell Me a Story
[[2]] The Scouting Book for Boys
[[1]] The Secret in Their Eyes [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Secret of Kells [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Serious Moonlight
[[2]] She, a Chinese [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sherlock Holmes [1 review(s) available]
[[1]] The Skeptic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Slammin' Salmon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Soloist
[[3]] Solomon Kane [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sorority Row [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Soul Kitchen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Splice [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spring Breakdown [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Star Trek [4 review(s) available] [44 comment(s) available]
[[3]] State of Play [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Still waiting
[[3]] Storm [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Suck [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Summer Wars [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Surrogates
[[1]] Survival of the Dead [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Surviving Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Taking of Pelham 123 [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Taking Woodstock [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tales from the Catholic Church of Elvis! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Technotise - Edit i ja [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Teketeke [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Terminator Salvation [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Thick as Thieves [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thirst (Bakjwi) [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Time Traveler's Wife [8 comment(s) available]
[[2]] TiMER [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Tournament [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Triangle [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Tsar [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Ugly Truth [2 review(s) available]
[[3]] The Unborn [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Uncertainty [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Undertow
[[1]] Underworld: Rise of the Lycans [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Uninvited [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Unloved
[[1]] Up [1 review(s) available] [18 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Up in the Air [13 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Valhalla Rising [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vampire Girl versus Frankenstein Girl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Veronika Decides to Die
[[3]] Villa Amalia
[[3]] Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen
[[3]] Watchmen [1 review(s) available] [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] What's Your Raashee?
[[3]] Whatever Works [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Where the Wild Things Are [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Whip It [2 review(s) available] [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] White Material
[[3]] Whiteout [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wild About Harry [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Wild Hunt [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonder Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wrong House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] X-Men Origins: Wolverine [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] XXXHOLiC: Shunmuki - Kouhen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] XXXHOLic: Shunmuki - Zenpen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Year of the Carnivore
[[3]] Year One [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yesterday Was a Lie
[[3]] The Young Victoria [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Youth in Revolt [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zombieland [10 comment(s) available]
[[1]] [Rec] 2 [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.

If you need access to the raw data, check out the docs for the api.

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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:

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.

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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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