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

2013 (200 movies)

[[2]] Insidious: Chapter 2 [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Instructions Not Included [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Interior. Leather Bar. [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Internship [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Invisible Woman [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Iron Man 3  [1 review(s) available] [31 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Jack the Giant Slayer [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jeune & jolie [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Jug Face [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Jurassic Attack [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Justice Is Mind [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Karlek deluxe
[[3]] Kaze tachinu [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kick-Ass 2 [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kill for Me [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Kill Your Darlings [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Killing Season [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Kings of Summer
[[3]] Knights of Badassdom [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Kyss meg for faen i helvete [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] L'amour est un crime parfait [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] L'ecume des jours [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] La grande bellezza [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] La jaula de oro
[[0]] La Venus a la fourrure [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Last Exorcism Part II [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Last Keepers [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Last of Robin Hood [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Last Passenger [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Last Stand [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Last Vegas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Le Passé [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Le week-end [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lee Daniels' The Butler [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Les garcons et Guillaume, a table! [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Les Reines du Ring (English: Wrestling Queens) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Life Inside Out [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Lifeguard [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Locke [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Lone Ranger [4 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Lone Survivor [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Look of Love [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Lost Angel
[[3]] Lost In Living [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Love & Air Sex [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Love Punch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lovelace [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Lucia
[[3]] The Lunchbox [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Machete Kills [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Machine [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Madoka Magica: Rebellion Story [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Maidentrip [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mama [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Man of Steel [34 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Man of Tai Chi [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom [3 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Maron [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mary and Martha [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Meine Schwestern [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Metalocalypse The Doomstar Requiem [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Michael Kohlhaas [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Minha Mae e uma Peca: O Filme [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mobius [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Monster High: Thirteen Wishes [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Monster Pies
[[1]] Monsters University [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Moving Mountains [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mt. Zion [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Mud [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Little Pony: Equestria Girls [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My mad fat diary [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Nashorn im Galopp
[[2]] Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de (The After-Dinner Mysteries) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nebraska [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Night Train to Lisbon [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Now You See Me [15 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Numbers Station [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nymphomaniac: Volume 1  [1 review(s) available] [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nymphomaniac: Volume 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] O Tempo e o Vento [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oblivion [28 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Odd Thomas [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Oldboy [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Olympus Has Fallen [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Once Upon a Time in Vietnam [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Only God Forgives  [1 review(s) available] [9 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Only Lovers Left Alive [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Open Road [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Orphan Black [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Out of the Furnace [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Oz the Great and Powerful  [2 review(s) available] [21 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pacific Rim [30 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Pain & Gain [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Palo Alto [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Parker
[[3]] Particle Fever [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pasadena [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Patema Inverted [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Peeples [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Perfect Mothers [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Philomena  [1 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Physician [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Planes  [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] Plush [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pozitia copilului [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Pretty One [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Prince Avalanche [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Princess Twins of Legendale [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Prisoners [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: The Rebellion Story [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Punk Singer [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Purge [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] R.I.P.D. [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Railway Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] rastres de sándal [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Red 2 [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Remember Sunday
[[3]] The Returned [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Rewind [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Riddick [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Riley Rewind [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ronny
[[0]] Runner Runner
[[1]] Rush [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] RWBY [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sadako 3D 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Safe Haven [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Saige Paints the Sky [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Saving Mr. Banks [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Secret Life of Walter Mitty [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Selfish Giant
[[3]] Sharknado [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] She Made Them Do It [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Short Term 12 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Side Effects [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Sisters Plotz [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Skinwalker Ranch [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sleeping with the Fishes [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Smurfs 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Snowpiercer [7 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Some Girl(s) [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Soshite chichi ni naru (Like Father, Like Son) [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Spectacular Now [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Stalingrad [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Star Trek Into Darkness  [1 review(s) available] [30 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Starving Games [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Still Life
[[3]] Stoker [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Stranger by the Lake [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Summer League [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sunshine on Leith [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Suzanne
[[1]] Svecenikova djeca
[[2]] Switch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Tale of The Princess Kaguya [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Tangerines [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Teen Beach Movie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Texas Chainsaw 3D [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Thanks for Sharing [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] This Is the End [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thor: The Dark World [22 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Tim's Vermeer
[[1]] The Time in Between [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The To Do List  [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Touchy Feely [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tracks [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Trance [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Trap for Cinderella [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Truth About Emanuel [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Turbo [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Uitgesproken
[[1]] UMMAH - Unter Freunden [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Upstream Color [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] V/H/S/2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Vai que da Certo [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Very Good Girls [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vi ar bast! [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vikings
[[3]] Vino Veritas
[[1]] Viva la liberta [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Vivian Maier Mystery
[[0]] Vivir es facil con los ojos cerrados [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wadjda  [1 review(s) available] [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Warm Bodies [22 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Wastelands
[[3]] The Way Way Back [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] We Are What We Are [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] We're the Millers [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Welcome to the Punch [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Wetlands  [1 review(s) available]
[[3]] What If [6 comment(s) available]
[[3]] White Bear [5 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

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Recent activity

Currently 10251 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-03-02 03:15: [[3]] Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate (2024)
2024-02-29 03:37: [[3]] Dune: Part Two (2024)
2024-02-28 14:00: [[2]] Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
2024-02-26 12:55: [[3]] Mermaid (2007)
2024-02-25 11:37: [[1]] Flamin’ Hot (2023)

The five latest comments were on:

2024-03-27 10:33: [[1]] Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
2024-03-25 11:41: [[3]] Road House (2024)
2024-03-25 01:55: [[3]] Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
2024-03-24 06:26: [[1]] Clara (2018)
2024-03-22 08:37: [[1]] Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)

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 10251 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.
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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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