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

Movies in the IMDb Top 250

These are the 244 movies in the list that are also in the IMDb Top 250 (as of October 2010).

2010 (5 movies)

[[3]] How to Train Your Dragon [2 review(s) available] [20 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inception [1 review(s) available] [38 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kick-Ass [7 review(s) available] [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Social Network [3 review(s) available] [19 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Toy Story 3 [1 review(s) available] [20 comment(s) available]

2009 (6 movies)

[[3]] Avatar [8 review(s) available] [17 comment(s) available]
[[1]] District 9 [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Inglourious Basterds [3 review(s) available] [22 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Secret in Their Eyes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Star Trek [4 review(s) available] [44 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Up [1 review(s) available] [18 comment(s) available]

2008 (7 movies)

[[3]] The Dark Knight [4 review(s) available] [15 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gran Torino [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] In Bruges
[[1]] Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Slumdog Millionaire [3 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] WALL-E [5 review(s) available] [12 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Wrestler [3 comment(s) available]

2007 (6 movies)

[[2]] The Bourne Ultimatum [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Into the Wild [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] No Country for Old Men [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ratatouille [1 review(s) available] [12 comment(s) available]
[[0]] There Will Be Blood [7 comment(s) available]

2006 (7 movies)

[[3]] Children of Men [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Das Leben Der Anderen [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Departed [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Letters from Iwo Jima [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Little Miss Sunshine [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Prestige [1 comment(s) available]

2005 (3 movies)

[[1]] Batman Begins [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sin City [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] V for Vendetta [3 review(s) available] [14 comment(s) available]

2004 (6 movies)

[[3]] Der Untergang (Downfall) [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl's Moving Castle) [8 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Incredibles [4 review(s) available] [13 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kill Bill: Vol. 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Million Dollar Baby [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]

2003 (7 movies)

[[1]] Big Fish [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Finding Nemo [14 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kill Bill: Vol. 1 [3 review(s) available] [15 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mystic River [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Oldboy [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl [10 comment(s) available]

2002 (4 movies)

[[1]] City of God [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Infernal Affairs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [15 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Pianist [3 comment(s) available]

2001 (6 movies)

[[3]] Amelie [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Donnie Darko [14 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [1 review(s) available] [10 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Monsters, Inc. [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mulholland Dr. [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spirited Away [7 comment(s) available]

2000 (6 movies)

[[1]] Amores Perros [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gladiator [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Memento [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Requiem for a Dream [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Snatch. [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) [2 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]

1999 (7 movies)

[[3]] American Beauty [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fight Club [1 review(s) available] [15 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Green Mile [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Magnolia [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Matrix [1 review(s) available] [23 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sixth Sense [8 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Toy Story 2 [9 comment(s) available]

1998 (5 movies)

[[2]] American History X [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Big Lebowski [14 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Saving Private Ryan [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Truman Show [2 comment(s) available]

1997 (4 movies)

[[0]] Good Will Hunting [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] L.A. Confidential [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] La vita è bella [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mononoke-hime [2 comment(s) available]

1996 (2 movies)

[[2]] Fargo [17 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Trainspotting [1 comment(s) available]

1995 (7 movies)

[[2]] Braveheart [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Casino [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Heat [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Se7en [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Toy Story [10 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Twelve Monkeys [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Usual Suspects [3 comment(s) available]

1994 (6 movies)

[[3]] Ed Wood [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Forrest Gump [8 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lion King [1 review(s) available] [18 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Professional [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pulp Fiction [14 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Shawshank Redemption [6 comment(s) available]

1993 (3 movies)

[[2]] Groundhog Day [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Nightmare Before Christmas [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Schindler's List [2 comment(s) available]

1992 (2 movies)

[[0]] Reservoir Dogs [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Unforgiven [5 comment(s) available]

1991 (2 movies)

[[3]] The Silence of the Lambs [15 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Terminator 2: Judgement Day [8 comment(s) available]

1990 (1 movie)

[[3]] Goodfellas [8 comment(s) available]

1989 (1 movie)

[[0]] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [1 comment(s) available]

1988 (5 movies)

[[1]] Cinema Paradiso [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Die Hard [7 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Grave of the Fireflies [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rain Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tonari no Totoro [4 comment(s) available]

1987 (2 movies)

[[0]] Full Metal Jacket [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Princess Bride [16 comment(s) available]

1986 (3 movies)

[[3]] Aliens [2 review(s) available] [14 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Platoon [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Stand By Me [2 comment(s) available]

1985 (2 movies)

[[2]] Back to the Future [13 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ran [2 comment(s) available]

1984 (3 movies)

[[3]] Amadeus [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Once Upon A Time In America [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Terminator [9 comment(s) available]

1983 (2 movies)

[[1]] Scarface [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi [21 comment(s) available]

1982 (3 movies)

[[1]] Blade Runner [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Gandhi [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Thing [5 comment(s) available]

1981 (2 movies)

[[0]] Das Boot [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Raiders of the Lost Ark [10 comment(s) available]

1980 (3 movies)

[[1]] Raging Bull
[[2]] The Shining [1 review(s) available] [7 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back [8 comment(s) available]

1979 (4 movies)

[[3]] Alien [27 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Apocalypse Now [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life of Brian [11 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Manhattan [1 comment(s) available]

1978 (1 movie)

[[1]] The Deer Hunter

1977 (2 movies)

[[3]] Annie Hall [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Star Wars [2 review(s) available] [15 comment(s) available]

1976 (3 movies)

[[3]] Network [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rocky [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Taxi Driver [2 comment(s) available]

1975 (5 movies)

[[1]] Barry Lyndon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dog Day Afternoon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jaws [6 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Monty Python and the Holy Grail [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [2 comment(s) available]

1974 (3 movies)

[[2]] Chinatown [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Conversation [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Godfather: Part II [8 comment(s) available]

1973 (2 movies)

[[3]] The Exorcist [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Sting [2 comment(s) available]

1972 (2 movies)

[[2]] The Godfather [5 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sleuth [1 comment(s) available]

1971 (1 movie)

[[1]] A Clockwork Orange [11 comment(s) available]

1970 (1 movie)

[[1]] Patton [1 comment(s) available]

1969 (1 movie)

[[1]] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [2 comment(s) available]

1968 (4 movies)

[[0]] 2001: A Space Odyssey [16 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Once Upon a Time in the West [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Planet of the Apes
[[3]] Rosemary's Baby [6 comment(s) available]

1967 (3 movies)

[[3]] Bonnie and Clyde
[[1]] Cool Hand Luke [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Graduate [2 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]

1966 (3 movies)

[[1]] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] La battaglia di Algeri [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [1 comment(s) available]

1965 (1 movie)

[[0]] For a Few Dollars More

1964 (1 movie)

[[0]] Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [3 comment(s) available]

1963 (2 movies)

[[3]] 8½ [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Great Escape [3 comment(s) available]

1962 (3 movies)

[[0]] Lawrence of Arabia [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Manchurian Candidate [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] To Kill a Mockingbird [3 comment(s) available]

1961 (2 movies)

[[0]] The Hustler [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Yojimbo [1 comment(s) available]

1960 (3 movies)

[[3]] The Apartment [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Psycho [7 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Spartacus

1959 (5 movies)

[[0]] The 400 Blows [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Anatomy of a Murder [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ben-Hur [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] North By Northwest
[[3]] Some Like It Hot [3 comment(s) available]

1958 (2 movies)

[[1]] Touch of Evil
[[1]] Vertigo [1 comment(s) available]

1957 (7 movies)

[[0]] 12 Angry Men [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Bridge on the River Kwai
[[3]] Nights of Cabiria
[[0]] Paths of Glory [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Seventh Seal
[[2]] Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Witness for the Prosecution [2 comment(s) available]

1956 (1 movie)

[[1]] The Killing

1955 (2 movies)

[[3]] Diabolique [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Night of the Hunter [2 comment(s) available]

1954 (4 movies)

[[0]] Dial M for Murder
[[0]] On the Waterfront [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rear Window [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Shichinin no samurai [1 comment(s) available]

1953 (3 movies)

[[1]] Le Salaire de la Peur [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Roman holiday [7 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Stalag 17 [1 comment(s) available]

1952 (3 movies)

[[2]] High Noon [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ikiru
[[3]] Singin' in the Rain [7 comment(s) available]

1951 (3 movies)

[[3]] A Streetcar Named Desire
[[0]] The African Queen [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Strangers on a Train [2 comment(s) available]

1950 (4 movies)

[[3]] All About Eve [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Harvey [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Rashomon [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sunset Blvd. [6 comment(s) available]

1949 (2 movies)

[[1]] Kind Hearts and Coronets [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Third Man [2 comment(s) available]

1948 (3 movies)

[[2]] Bicycle Thieves [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Rope [6 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1946 (4 movies)

[[2]] The Best Years of Our Lives [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Big Sleep [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] It's a Wonderful Life [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Notorious [3 comment(s) available]

1945 (1 movie)

[[3]] Brief Encounter [4 comment(s) available]

1944 (2 movies)

[[3]] Arsenic and Old Lace [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Double Indemnity [4 comment(s) available]

1943 (1 movie)

[[3]] Shadow of a Doubt [1 comment(s) available]

1942 (1 movie)

[[1]] Casablanca [1 comment(s) available]

1941 (2 movies)

[[1]] Citizen Kane [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Maltese Falcon

1940 (3 movies)

[[3]] The Grapes of Wrath
[[3]] The Great Dictator
[[3]] Rebecca [6 comment(s) available]

1939 (3 movies)

[[3]] Gone with the Wind [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Mr. Smith Goes to Washington [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wizard of Oz [7 comment(s) available]

1938 (1 movie)

[[2]] The Adventures of Robin Hood [4 comment(s) available]

1936 (1 movie)

[[0]] Modern Times

1934 (1 movie)

[[3]] It Happened One Night [4 comment(s) available]

1933 (2 movies)

[[1]] Duck Soup [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] King Kong [1 comment(s) available]

1931 (2 movies)

[[3]] City Lights [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] M [4 comment(s) available]

1930 (1 movie)

[[0]] All Quiet on the Western Front

1927 (2 movies)

[[1]] Metropolis [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans [1 comment(s) available]

1926 (1 movie)

[[0]] The General [1 comment(s) available]

1925 (1 movie)

[[0]] The Gold Rush [2 comment(s) available]

1921 (1 movie)

[[0]] The Kid [2 comment(s) available]

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