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

[[1]] Les choses simples [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cocaine Bear [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Flaming Star [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] G.I. Blues [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Love Me Tender [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blade of the 47 Ronin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Four Good Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Legend of 5 Mile Cave [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Missing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Reflect [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Strange World [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life Is a Bed of Roses [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Chocolat [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Confidentially Yours [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Balto III: Wings of Change [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Balto: Wolf Quest [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paradise, Hawaiian Style [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] EL Agua
[[0]] Limbo [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mannequin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cleopatra Jones [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Infinity Pool
[[0]] Garfield [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hotel Artemis [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] What's Love Got to Do with It
[[0]] New Jack City
[[3]] The Killing Secret [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babylon [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Mr.
[[3]] Pathaan [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Advocate's Devil
[[3]] the swimmers
[[3]] The Sex Lives of College Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Carry on Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gone in the Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] El zoo d'en Pitus [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Offline [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Qala [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cutthroat Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sons of the Desert [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rüzgarda Salınan Nilüfer
[[1]] Burning Days (Kurak Günler) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cici
[[3]] A tale of three sisters (Kız kardeşler)
[[3]] Parenthood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] RRR [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Digimon Adventure [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bitter Tea of General Yen [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Crocodile Dundee II [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] She Done Him Wrong [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ruido (Noise) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Ref
[[3]] Broker [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] White Noise [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Grumpier Old Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Grumpy Old Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] the wonder
[[0]] The Whisperer in Darkness [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Hanalei Bay
[[3]] Puss in Boots: The Last Wish [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Matilda the Musical [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] A Man Called Otto [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 7 Women and a Murder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bones and All
[[3]] The Borrowers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Great Outdoors
[[3]] Willow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Cyrano [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nanny [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Brahmastra Part One Shiva [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Where the Crawdads Sing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Noelle [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Avatar: The Way Of Water [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Rodrigo Ortiz Vinholo Film
[[2]] Satantango [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nun [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Why Bother to Knock [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Beautiful Boy
[[0]] Madagascar escape 2 africa [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spring in a Small Town - 春之城小 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bells of St Mary's [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Girl Who Knew Too Much [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gun Crazy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Richard III [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Oceans 8 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Inmersión [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] No me digas solterona
[[3]] Drop Dead Fred [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Your Christmas or Mine? [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] On the Count of Three [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Man Between [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ride or Die [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flying [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Purple Heart [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fast Color [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 6 Underground
[[1]] Joe Kidd [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Zandy's Bride [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spirited [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fate Is the Hunter [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bros [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Banker [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wendell & Wild [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Tower [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Different Flowers
[[2]] Sidewalk Stories [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Swing Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Monsieur Verdoux [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Christmas Under Wraps [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kung-Fu Master! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Homestuck
[[3]] Diary of a Chambermaid [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] 平安 or HEIAN [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Piece: Film Red [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Movie Star
[[0]] Warrior
[[1]] The innocents [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yield to the Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Good Nurse [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Disenchanted [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Banshees of Inisherin [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Little Pony: A New Generation [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Jujutsu Kaisen 0
[[1]] Weird: The Al Yankovic Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] One Fine Morning [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Grandfather's Demons [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nayola [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Code Name Banshee [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Family Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Last Waltz [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] El cuarto pasajero
[[3]] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Shalako [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Hobbit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Legend of Maula Jatt [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Man From Toronto [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hear Me Out [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dead Leaves [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fire Island [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Enola Holmes 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Brighton Rock [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] My Policeman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] She-Wolf of London [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Me Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Stranger [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Guns of Fort Petticoat [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Charro! [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] My Life as a Dog [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dark Dungeons [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Everything Will Change
[[1]] Black Gunn [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Coffy [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sheba, Baby [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tar [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Made in USA [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Crush [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] L'autre rive [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Terrifier 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yes Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Marine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Catherine Called Birdy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Only Two Can Play [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Piranha [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Open Water 3: Cage Dive [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Open Water 2: Adrift [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Messiah of Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Amarcord [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] King Creole [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Honeymoon Hotel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Fada do Lar [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Remains of the Wind [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bem Bom [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] So I Married an Axe Murderer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Halloween Kills [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Final Cut [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Female [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Woman King [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Emily in Paris [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Trouble with Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] H2O: Just Add Water [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Deep Woods [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbarian [20 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Kissin' Cousins [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Clerks III [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] France [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tout le monde aime Jeanne [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Athena [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] As bestas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love on a Pillow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Smile [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Live a Little, Love a Little [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.

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 9908 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2023-02-28 10:43: [[1]] Les choses simples (2023)
2023-02-24 23:06: [[3]] Cocaine Bear (2023)
2023-02-21 02:53: [[1]] Flaming Star (1960)
2023-02-20 23:54: [[2]] G.I. Blues (1960)
2023-02-20 07:28: [[2]] Love Me Tender (1956)

The five latest comments were on:

2023-04-01 04:28: [[2]] Avatar: The Way Of Water (2022)
2023-04-01 00:10: [[3]] Johnny Tsunami (1999)
2023-03-31 19:16: [[1]] Oceans 8 (2018)
2023-03-31 19:16: [[1]] Oceans 8 (2018)
2023-03-30 21:12: [[3]] Flareup (1969)

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 9908 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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