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

1993 (111 movies)

[[1]] A Bronx tale
[[1]] A perfect world
[[3]] Addams Family Values [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Age of Innocence
[[1]] Arctic Blue [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Bad Boy Bubby
[[0]] Batman: Mask of the Phantasm [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Benny & Joon
[[3]] The Beverly Hillbillies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Bhaji on the Beach [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Blood In, Blood Out
[[1]] Body Bags [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Body of Evidence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Body Snatchers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Boxing Helena
[[0]] Cannibal! The Musical [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cliffhanger [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Coneheads [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Cool Runnings [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dave [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dazed and Confused [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Death Train [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Demolition Man [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
[[3]] The Evil Cult [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Falling Down [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Farewell My Concubine [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Fatal Instinct [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Fear of a Black hat [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Fei hu wai zhuan
[[3]] The Firm [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Free Willy [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Fugitive [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Gatica, el mono
[[3]] Gekijô-ban - Bishôjo senshi Sêrâ Mûn R (Sailor Moon R the Movie: The Promise of the Rose) [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Gettysburg [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Groundhog Day [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Grumpy Old Men [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Guilty as sin [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Gypsy [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Hard Target [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Heart and Souls
[[2]] Heaven & Earth
[[3]] Heidi [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Heroic Trio [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hocus Pocus [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Hot Shots! Part Deux [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meathook, and Now I Have a Three Picture Deal at Disney
[[1]] In the Line of Fire [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] In the Name of the Father [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Indecent Proposal
[[3]] Indian Summer [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Indien [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Joy Luck Club [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jurassic Park [1 review(s) available] [16 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kika
[[3]] La casa de los espíritus [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Last Action Hero [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Leprechaun [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Little Buddha [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Making of '...And God Spoke'
[[1]] The Man Without a Face
[[3]] Manhattan Murder Mystery
[[1]] Matinee [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mi vida loca [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mrs. Doubtfire [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Much Ado About Nothing [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Naked [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Nightmare Before Christmas [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Once Upon a Forest [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Pelican Brief [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Philadelphia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Piano [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pieces of April [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Poetic Justice [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Point of No Return/The Assassin [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Princess and the Cobbler
[[1]] The Remains of the Day [5 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rising Sun [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Robin Hood: Men in Tights [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] RoboCop 3 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ruby in Paradise
[[0]] The Sandlot [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Schindler's List [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Searching for Bobby Fischer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Secret Garden [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Short Cuts [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Six Degrees of Separation
[[2]] Sleepless in Seattle [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sliver [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] So I Married an Axe Murderer [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Sonatine
[[0]] Space Zombie Bingo!!! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Super Mario Bros. [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Swing Kids
[[2]] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Telling Secrets [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Three Colors: Blue [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tombstone [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Trial
[[1]] True Romance [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Umi ga kikoeru [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Undercover Blues [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Untamed Heart [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Wedding Banquet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] What's Eating Gilbert Grape [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] What's Love Got to Do with It [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 10286 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-04-14 06:16: [[3]] Wicked Little Letters (2023)
2024-04-09 11:12: [[1]] Imaginary (2024)
2024-04-08 14:32: [[1]] My Fault (2023)
2024-04-05 23:55: [[1]] Visitor Q (2001)
2024-04-05 09:38: [[3]] Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-05-10 19:18: [[2]] Little Fires Everywhere (2020)
2024-05-10 00:51: [[3]] Hotel For Dogs (2009)
2024-05-08 15:02: [[1]] Cabrini (2024)
2024-05-08 03:42: [[2]] Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
2024-05-08 03:41: [[3]] Tarot (2024)

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 10286 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 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.

You can view just the Movies in the IMDb Top 250 and last but not least, you can search the list.

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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