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]] Another Earth [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Another Gay Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Another Happy Day
[[3]] Another Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Another Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Another Year [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] António Um, Dois, TrÊs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ant-Man and the Wasp [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Antebellum [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anthropoid [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Antiporno [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Antonia's Line [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Antz [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anya [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Anyone but you
[[3]] Anywhere But Here [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Aparajito [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Apart [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Apart From That
[[3]] Apartment #5C [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Apartment 143 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Apartment [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Ape [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Apocalypto [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Apollo 13 [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Apostasy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Apostle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Appleseed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Appleseed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Appropriate Behavior [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Après Vous [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] April Fool's Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] April's Shower [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Aquaman [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Aquamarine [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Aquarius
[[3]] Arachnid [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Arachnoquake [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Araya
[[3]] The Architect [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Are You Here [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Are You There God? It's Me Margaret [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Arena [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Argo [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Argylle
[[3]] The AristoCats [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Aristocrats [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Arite hime/Princess Arete [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Army of the Dead [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Army of Thieves [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Around the World in 80 Days [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Around the World in Eighty Ways [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Arranged [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Arrietty [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Arrival [17 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Arsenic and Old Lace [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Art School Confidential [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Artemis Fowl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Aruvi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] As Above So Below [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] As bestas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] As Good as It Gets [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] As High as the Sky [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ascendance of a Bookworm
[[3]] Ashley [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Asian School Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ask for Jane [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ask Me Anything [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ass Backwards
[[3]] The Assassin Next Door [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Assassination Nation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Assault of the Killer Bimbos
[[3]] Assault on Precinct 13 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Assault on Precinct 13 [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Assistant [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Associate [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Astérix et Obélix: L'Empire du Milieu [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Asteroid City [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Astro Boy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] At Middleton [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Atlantic City [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Atlantis Conspiracy [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Atlas Shrugged: Part I [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Atomic Blonde [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Atonement [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Attack on Leningrad
[[3]] Attack the Block [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Attenberg
[[3]] Au cul du loup [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Auf der anderen Seite [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] August [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] August Rush [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] August: Osage County [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Augustine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Auntie Mame [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Austenland [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Autumn Leaves [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ava [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ava's Possession [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Avanti! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Avatar [8 review(s) available] [17 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Avatar: The Way Of Water [13 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Avengers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Avengers: Age of Ultron [35 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Avengers: Endgame [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Avengers: Infinity War [38 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Avenue Montaigne
[[3]] Avis de mistral
[[3]] AVP: Alien vs. Predator [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Avril et le monde truque [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Awake [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Awakening [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Away from Her
[[3]] Away We Go [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Awful Truth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ayneh [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ayneh [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Azumi 2: Death or Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Baader Meinhof Complex [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Babadook [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babar: The Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babe [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babes
[[3]] Babes in Arms [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babette Goes to War [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babette's Feast [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Baby Assasins [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Baby Boom [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Baby Doll [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Baby Face [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Baby Mama [2 review(s) available]
[[3]] The Baby [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Baby-Sitters Club [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babygirl [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babylon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Babysitter [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Babysitters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Babyteeth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bachelor Party [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bachelorette [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Back to the Future Part II [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Back to the Outback [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Back-up Plan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bacurau [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Boy: Ride Or Die [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Education [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Girls
[[3]] Bad Girls from Mars [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bad Guys [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Hair [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Hair Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Living [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Moms [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bad Mother's Handbook
[[3]] Bad Parents [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bad Reputation [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bad Seed
[[3]] Bad Teacher [10 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Badhaai Do
[[3]] Bagdad Cafe
[[3]] Baggage Claim [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Baise-Moi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Ballad of Jack and Rose
[[3]] The Ballad of Narayama [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ballerina [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ballet Shoes [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Balto III: Wings of Change [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Balto: Wolf Quest [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bambule [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Banana Split [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Band Aid
[[3]] Band Baaja Barat
[[3]] Band of Outsiders
[[3]] Bandage [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bandidas [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bang Gang [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Banger Sisters [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Bank Job [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Banshees of Inisherin [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bar Bahar
[[3]] The Bar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbara [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbarella [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbarian [20 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Barbarian Invasions [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbarian Queen [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbershop: The Next Cut [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie [22 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie & Her Sisters in a Pony Tale [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Barbie and the Diamond Castle [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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