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

[[0]] Grand Paris
[[0]] Gunga Din [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Case Closed: The Darkest Nightmare [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Unlisted
[[1]] Goutte d'Or [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Air [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Contender [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sea of Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] College Road Trip
[[1]] The Super Mario Bros. Movie [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Captains Courageous [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Cheaper by the Dozen 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Creed 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Johnny Tsunami [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flareup [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] M3GAN [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Flash
[[3]] Farha [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Change of Habit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] How to be really bad [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fall [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Clifford The Big Red Dog [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Myra Breckinridge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It's a Gift [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ecstasy of the Black Rose [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Glass [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Speedway [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Once Bitten [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] A Date for Mad Mary [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Double Trouble [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Spinout [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girl Happy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Idle Hands [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Tickle Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Agatha and the Truth of Murder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Freaks [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] SCREAM VI [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hill Where Lionesses Roar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Free Willy 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Love, etc. [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] 65 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Mandela Catalouge
[[3]] Women Talking [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] After Yang [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Winchester '73 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Clambake [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] All Quiet on the Western Front [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Frankie and Johnny [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Girls! Girls! Girls! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Queenpins [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Roustabout [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Night Heaven Fell [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Two Weeks in September [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Whale [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Rum Runners [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Les choses simples [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hellbender [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Les femmes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babette Goes to War [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] School for Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Her Bridal Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cocaine Bear [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Heaven Can Wait [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kid Galahad [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dead Body [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Fauve [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Batman: Gotham By Gaslight [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Batman Ninja [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bad Samaritan [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Overlord [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Mortuary Collection [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Scare Package [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blood Vessel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Yummy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wild in the Country [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Follow That Dream [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Swimmer [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Free Willy [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 [3 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 [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] New Jack City
[[3]] The Killing Secret [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babylon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pathaan [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Advocate's Devil
[[3]] the swimmers
[[3]] The Sex Lives of College Girls [2 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) [2 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 [3 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]
[[3]] Matilda the Musical [18 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 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Borrowers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Great Outdoors [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Willow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent [2 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]
[[3]] Avatar: The Way Of Water [13 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]] Inmersión [1 comment(s) available]
[[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 [2 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
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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 10377 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-07-31 19:43: [[3]] Fong Sai Yuk (1993)
2024-07-30 16:22: [[1]] North Hollywood (2021)
2024-07-29 15:58: [[3]] Double Down South (2022)
2024-07-29 01:30: [[1]] A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
2024-07-28 10:39: [[3]] Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-09-27 01:07: [[3]] Message and the Messenger (2022)
2024-09-26 12:40: [[1]] The Substance (2024)
2024-09-25 03:35: [[3]] The Queen of Villains (2024)
2024-09-25 02:34: [[2]] Challenger (2024)
2024-09-24 00:17: [[0]] Hundreds of Beavers (2022)

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 10377 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 year, sorted by title (default), 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.

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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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