Bechdel Test Movie List

/'bechdel test/ n.
1. It has to have at least two women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man

Movie list

2008 (17 movies)

[3] 21 [1 comment(s) available]
[3] Baby Mama
[3] The Bank Job [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Be Kind Rewind
[3] Birds of America
[3] The Dark Knight [3 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[2] Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Get Smart
[0] Hancock [1 review(s) available]
[1] In Bruges
[1] Jumper
[1] The Love Guru
[1] The Mutant Chronicles
[3] Nim's Island [1 review(s) available]
[3] Starship Troopers 3
[1] Wall-E [4 review(s) available]
[1] Wanted

2007 (17 movies)

[1] 88 Minutes
[3] The Brave One
[1] The Bucket List
[3] Death Proof [2 review(s) available]
[1] Futurama: Bender's Big Score
[3] Juno [1 comment(s) available]
[1] The Man from Earth
[2] Next
[1] Outlaw
[3] Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End [1 comment(s) available]
[3] Planet Terror [1 review(s) available]
[3] Premonition
[0] Ratatouille [1 review(s) available]
[3] Resident Evil: Extinction [1 review(s) available]
[1] Rush Hour 3
[3] Shrek the Third [1 review(s) available]
[3] Wool 100%

2006 (5 movies)

[1] Idiocracy
[3] Penelope
[2] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest [1 comment(s) available]
[3] The Devil Wears Prada [1 comment(s) available]
[3] V for Vendetta [3 review(s) available]

2005 (7 movies)

[1] Batman Begins
[1] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1 comment(s) available]
[3] The Pleasure Drivers
[1] Robots
[3] Sin City [1 review(s) available]
[3] Walk the Line [1 comment(s) available]
[3] Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough

2004 (9 movies)

[2] The Bourne Supremacy [1 comment(s) available]
[2] The Butterfly Effect [1 comment(s) available]
[3] The Day After Tomorrow [1 comment(s) available]
[2] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [1 comment(s) available]
[0] I, Robot
[3] The Incredibles [1 review(s) available]
[3] Kinsey [1 comment(s) available]
[3] Shrek 2 [1 comment(s) available]
[1] The Whole Ten Yards

2003 (12 movies)

[3] Angels in America
[3] Bruce Almighty [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Identity [1 comment(s) available]
[1] The Italian Job
[3] The Matrix Reloaded [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[3] The Matrix Revolutions
[1] The Recruit
[1] Runaway Jury
[3] S.W.A.T. [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Shanghai Knights
[3] Underworld [1 comment(s) available]
[3] X2 (X-Men 2)

2002 (16 movies)

[1] Austin Powers in Goldmember
[1] The Bourne Identity
[1] Equilibrium
[3] High Crimes [1 comment(s) available]
[1] I Spy
[0] Ice Age [1 review(s) available]
[1] Insomnia
[1] Men in Black II
[1] Minority Report
[2] Mr Deeds [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Phone Booth
[3] S1m0ne [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Star Trek: Nemesis
[2] The Adventures of Pluto Nash [1 comment(s) available]
[3] The Hours [1 comment(s) available]
[0] The Transporter

2001 (14 movies)

[0] The 51st State
[3] Along Came A Spider
[2] Antitrust [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Artificial Intelligence: AI
[3] Don't Say A Word [1 comment(s) available]
[3] Evolution [1 comment(s) available]
[3] High Heels and Low Lifes [1 comment(s) available]
[0] Impostor
[3] Jason X
[3] Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
[1] The Majestic
[1] Monsters, Inc.
[0] Ocean's Eleven
[1] Shrek

2000 (12 movies)

[1] American Psycho
[2] Dude, Where's My Car [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[3] The Emperor's New Groove [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[3] Hollow Man [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Memento
[1] Mission to Mars
[1] Ordinary Decent Criminal
[0] Red Planet
[1] Shanghai Noon
[1] Vertical Limit
[3] The Whole Nine Yards [1 comment(s) available]
[1] X-Men

1999 (9 movies)

[1] 8MM [1 comment(s) available]
[3] American Beauty
[1] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
[1] Blue Streak
[3] The Matrix [2 comment(s) available]
[1] Office Space
[3] Sleepy Hollow [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Three to Tango
[1] Toy Story 2

1998 (6 movies)

[1] Blade
[3] Deep Impact
[1] Future Sport
[3] Mulan [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[1] The Negotiator
[1] The Truman Show

1997 (8 movies)

[2] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery [1 comment(s) available]
[3] The Devil's Advocate
[1] The Fifth Element
[1] The Game
[1] Gattaca [1 review(s) available]
[1] Men in Black
[1] Murder at 1600
[3] Starship Troopers

1996 (4 movies)

[3] Jane Eyre
[1] The Rock
[1] Spy Hard
[2] Trainspotting [1 comment(s) available]

1995 (8 movies)

[3] Casper [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Die Hard: With a Vengeance
[3] Empire Records
[1] Hackers
[3] Outbreak [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Se7en
[1] Toy Story
[1] The Usual Suspects

1994 (3 movies)

[1] Interview with the Vampire
[1] The Lion King [1 review(s) available] [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Pulp Fiction

1993 (3 movies)

[0] Demolition Man
[2] Groundhog Day [1 comment(s) available]
[1] Jurassic Park [1 review(s) available]

1992 (2 movies)

[0] Aladdin [1 review(s) available]
[0] Reservoir Dogs

1991 (1 movie)

[3] The Silence of the Lambs

1990 (2 movies)

[1] Back to the Future Part III
[1] Total Recall

1989 (2 movies)

[2] Back to the Future Part II [1 comment(s) available]
[3] Uncle Buck

1988 (1 movie)

[1] Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1987 (1 movie)

[1] Good Morning, Vietnam

1986 (1 movie)

[3] Short Circuit [1 comment(s) available]

1985 (1 movie)

[1] Back to the Future

1979 (1 movie)

[3] Alien [1 comment(s) available]

1950 (1 movie)

[3] All About Eve [1 comment(s) available]

About

The Bechdel Test, sometimes called the Mo Movie Measure is a simple test which names the three criteria listed on the top of this page. The test was popularized by Alison Bechdel's comic Dykes to Watch Out For, in a 1985 strip called The Rule.

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 criterium as only named female characters counting.

There are currently 163 movies listed, The Hours being the last movie added (on the 22nd of August 2008). Some stats and graphs are available.

You can also view the list sorted by title or date added (latest first).
An RSS feed[RSS icon] is also available, listing the latest 50 movies added to the list.

Icons

Less than two women in this movie
There are two or more women in this movie, but they don't talk to each other
There are two or more women in this movie, but they only talk to each other about a man
There are two or more women in this movie and they talk to each other about something other than a man
There is a comment for this movie
There are links to reviews available for this movie

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Links

DTWOF: The Blog about The Rule

Wikipedia: The Bechdel Test

Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test

Women's Studies Database ♀ Film Reviews

TV Tropes Wiki: Bechdels Rule

Women & Hollywood

A New Rating System for Movies

A Feminist Critique of Animation

Cartoons are more than just entertainment

The bechdel test is a very low bar feminist test for films/movies. Sexism in movies becomes pretty apparent when such a simple test still isn't passed by a lot of movies (see the stats page for current percentages on this list). The test was mentioned by Liz Wallace to Alison Bechdel, who used it in the Dykes To Watch Out For comic called The Rule in 1985. It's sometimes called Bechdel's Law or the Bechdel Movie Measure.

This website is not affiliated with Alison Bechdel.

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