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]] 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 [2 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 [7 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 [2 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]
[[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 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] France [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tout le monde aime Jeanne [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Athena [3 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]
[[2]] Extraction
[[3]] It Happened at the World's Fair [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Bad Day at Black Rock [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Ivanhoe [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Samartian [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Key Largo [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dark Passage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Exterminating Angel [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Some Came Running [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Hating Game [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Someone's Watching Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Invitation [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Blonde [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pearl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Menu [40 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Young Lovers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Flux Gourmet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Novelist's Film (So-seol-ga-ui Yeong-hwa) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades, Paris 13e) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Souvenir: Part II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Triangle of Sadness [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Children of Heaven [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Six Pack [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Dr. Minx [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Superfast! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wonder Women [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hocus Pocus 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pinocchio [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Darlings
[[3]] Tamahine [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Trouble Every Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Mandabi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Maeve [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Don't Worry Darling [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wild Affair [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Flower Drum Song [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Kennel Murder Case [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Charlie Says [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] El Topo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Big Job [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Do Revenge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Don't Make Waves [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dark Glasses [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Island of Lies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Eye of the Devil [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Ambushers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Murderers' Row [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Fosters
[[0]] Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Silencers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Please, Not Now! [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] La Parisienne [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Eyes of an Angel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Belle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ghost Tropic [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Around the World in 80 Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Up! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Seven Minutes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vixen! [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Supervixens [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Official Competition [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Look Both Ways [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Pushpa: The Rise - Part 1 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Girls und Panzer: Der Film [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Blackbird [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] House of Gucci [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] King Richard [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Monster High: Escape from Skull SHores [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Monster High: Thirteen Wishes [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] After Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bull [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Girls from Mars [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Haunting of Sharon Tate [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Not Okay [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The World of Suzie Wong [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gangubai Kathiawadi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emily the Criminal [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bodies Bodies Bodies [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Mad God [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Cafard
[[0]] Thirteen Lives [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Army of Thieves [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Nope [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Rain Shadow [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kajillionaire [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] All the old knives
[[3]] The Sea Beast [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Assignment [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Prey [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La nuit du 12 [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Black Box [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Health [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bullet Train [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Blasted [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Paper Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Save the Cinema [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spree [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Good Liar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ace Attorney [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Family Stone [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Emergency
[[3]] Come to the Stable [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Where Hands Touch [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Swimming for Gold [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Frenemies [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Let It Snow [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Blue Steel [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Gray Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bob’s Burgers Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Robot Overlords [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Deliciosa Fruta Seca [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mrs Harris Goes to Paris [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Minions: the rise of gru [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Boss Level [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Death Toilet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Batman: Bad Blood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Four Seasons [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sound Barrier [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Badhaai Do
[[3]] Jolt [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Queen Bees [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thor: Love and Thunder [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Days of Being Wild [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Reign of the Supermen [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Operation Finale
[[2]] Despiser [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Death of Superman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Outside In [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] His House [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Elvis [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Back to the Outback [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 10562 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2025-06-27 18:25: [[3]] The Wedding Banquet (2025)
2025-06-24 16:16: [[3]] Psycho Goreman (2020)
2025-06-21 16:16: [[3]] KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
2025-06-17 07:26: [[3]] Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (2023)
2025-06-14 19:14: [[0]] Sílene smutná princezna (1968)

The five latest comments were on:

2025-12-05 03:13: [[3]] Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025)
2025-12-04 20:19: [[3]] Mission: Impossible - The Final Reconking (2025)
2025-12-04 15:53: [[3]] Mission: Impossible - The Final Reconking (2025)
2025-12-04 10:52: [[3]] Vesper (2022)
2025-12-03 13:56: [[2]] Casino (1995)

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 10562 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.
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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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