I recently found out about the Bechdel Test, I was interested in how many of my Essential Films passed the test. So I used the Bechdel Test Movie List to cross referance. I did some horable html dumps and scripting to do this, after I finished I found out that they provide an API that can search based on IMDB id . I currently have 79 films in my list of these 64 has rating listed, or 81% of them.
| Breakdown of results | |
|---|
| Fewer than two women in these movies | 23% |
| There are two or more women in this movie, but they don’t talk to each other | 27% |
| There are two or more women in this movie, but they only talk to each other about a man | 9% |
| There are two or more women in this movie and they talk to each other | 41% |
And here are the films that are rated:
| Fewer than two women in these movies |
|---|
| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
| For a Few Dollars More |
| Full Metal Jacket |
| Good Will Hunting |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
| Lawrence of Arabia |
| Papillon |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| Saving Private Ryan |
| Snatch. |
| The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| The Great Escape |
| The Shawshank Redemption |
| There are two or more women in these movies, but they don’t talk to each other |
|---|
| Airplane! |
| Back to the Future |
| Blade |
| Blade Runner |
| Blazing Saddles |
| Catch Me If You Can |
| Clerks. |
| Forrest Gump |
| Goldfinger |
| Jaws |
| North By Northwest |
| Once Upon a Time in the West |
| Planes, Trains & Automobiles |
| The Big Lebowski |
| The Blues Brothers |
| The Departed |
| The Godfather |
| There are two or more women in these movies, but they only talk to each other about a man |
|---|
| Ferris Bueller’s Day Off |
| Paint Your Wagon |
| The Fugitive |
| The Graduate |
| The Shining |
| Trainspotting |
| There are two or more women in these movies and they talk to each other about something other than a man |
|---|
| Aliens |
| Apollo 13 |
| El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) |
| Erin Brockovich |
| Garden State |
| Gone with the Wind |
| Inception |
| Jurassic Park |
| Just Like Heaven |
| Legally Blonde |
| Little Miss Sunshine |
| Notting Hill |
| Play Misty for Me |
| Pulp Fiction |
| Requiem for a Dream |
| Schindler’s List |
| Spirited Away |
| Taken |
| The Breakfast Club |
| The Matrix |
| The Silence of the Lambs |
| The Wicker Man |
| Three Colors: Blue |
| Uncle Buck |
| Walk the Line |
| Where Eagles Dare |
