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

2016 (133 movies)

[[3]] Martyrs [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Masterminds [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Maudie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Me Before You [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Meet the Blacks
[[3]] Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Midnight Man
[[1]] Midnight Special [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates  [1 review(s) available] [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Miss Sloane
[[3]] Moana [21 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Money Monster [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Monster High: Welcome to Monster High [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Monster Trucks [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Moonlight [12 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Morgan [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mother's Day [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Mr. Church [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Mr. Right [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Life as a Zucchini [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Legend of Everfree [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Ne gledaj mi u pijat
[[3]] Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Neon Demon [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Neruda [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nerve [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Nice Guys [4 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Nine Lives [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nocturnal Animals  [4 review(s) available] [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Norm of the North [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Norman [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Now You See Me 2 [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Nowhereland [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Office Christmas Party [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Offline [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Other People [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ouija: Origin of Evil [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Our Kind of Traitor
[[3]] Pandemic [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Passengers [8 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Paterson [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Patients [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Perfect Match [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Personal Shopper
[[2]] Pet [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pete's Dragon [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Petersburg: a selfie [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pink [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Planetarium [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Prevenge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Pride and Prejudice and Zombies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Purge: Election Year [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Quand on a 17 ans [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Queen of Katwe [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Réparer les vivants [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rüzgarda Salınan Nilüfer
[[3]] Raising the Bar [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Raman Raghav 2.0 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Ratchet & Clank [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Raw [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Realive [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Red Pill [2 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Red Turtle [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Resident Evil: The Final Chapter [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Ride Along 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rogue One [7 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Rustom [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] São Jorge [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sausage Party [4 comment(s) available]
[[2]] The Secret Life of Pets [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sensitivity Training [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Seoulyeok [Seoul Station] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Shallows [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Shin Godzilla [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Siege of Jadotville [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Silence [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Sing [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sing Street [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sluga naroda 2
[[1]] Snowden [3 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Southside with You [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spa Night [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Spidarlings [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Split [3 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Star Trek Beyond [9 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Storks [3 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Suicide kale [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Suicide Squad [6 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Sully [2 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Swiss Army Man [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Tallulah [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] Tenemos la carne [We Are the Flesh] [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Their Finest [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Things to come - L'avenir [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Thomas & Friends: The Great Race [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] The Ticket [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Toni Erdmann
[[1]] Tramps [1 comment(s) available]
[[0]] The Transfiguration [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Triple 9 [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Trolls [6 comment(s) available]
[[0]] True Memoirs of an International Assassin [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Tschick [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Un homme a la hauteur
[[2]] Una
[[3]] Under The Shadow [1 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Underworld: Blood Wars [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Untamed [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Vampires In Virginia [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Varoonegi [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Vier gegen die Bank
[[3]] The Void [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Vse o muzhchinakh [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] War Dogs [4 comment(s) available]
[[3]] War on Everyone [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Warcraft [5 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Whiskey Tango Foxtrot [1 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Wiener-Dog [2 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Women Who Kill
[[3]] X-Men: Apocalypse [5 comment(s) available]
[[2]] Yoga Hosers [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] The Young Offenders [2 comment(s) available]
[[1]] Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zoombies [1 comment(s) available]
[[3]] Zootopia [7 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.

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Recent activity

Currently 10475 movies in the database. The five latest additions:

2024-12-30 06:50: [[1]] Hit Man (2023)
2024-12-30 06:44: [[3]] Nightbitch (2024)
2024-12-30 06:39: [[0]] Sing Sing (2023)
2024-12-30 06:35: [[1]] A Complete Unknown (2024)
2024-12-30 06:30: [[3]] Lee (2024)

The five latest comments were on:

2025-01-16 16:52: [[0]] Xiong Shi Shao Nian 2 (2024)
2025-01-16 16:29: [[2]] Her Story (2024)
2025-01-12 21:33: [[1]] Portrait of Teresa (1979)
2025-01-12 02:41: [[3]] Interstellar (2014)
2025-01-11 15:02: [[0]] Conclave (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 10475 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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