Amadeus—fails (I’m sure Constanza spoke with her mother—just
not on screen.)
Ghostbusters—fails
The Princess Bride—fails
Bram Stoker’s Dracula—passes (Lucy talks to Mina about
changing (“I can hear mice in the attic stomping like elephants.”))
Velvet Underground—fails
Dead Man Walking—passes (Sister Helen speaks with fellow
sisters.)
Steel Magnolias—passes
The Little Mermaid—nope, but then again Arial can’t speak
for most of the movie
The Downfall—passes
Le Comte De Monte Cristo—fails
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—passes
The Great Escape—fails. But it takes place in a POW camp, so
maybe it doesn’t count?
Spirited Away—passes
Howl’s Moving Castle—passes (Sophie complains to the Witch
of the Waste discuss the curse the Witch has put on Sophie)
Das Boot—Are you high?
Les Adieux à la Reine—passes
The Shadow of the Vampire—fails
All of the Lord of the Rings movies—fail, but that’s
Tolkein’s fault
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton
version)—passes so long as we count girls as women.
Corpse Bride—passes
The Nightmare Before Christmas—on the fence—do two witches
singing together count as “speaking with each other?”
Batman (Tim Burton)--dear me, no
Night Watch—fails
The Seventh Seal—Fails
Topsy Tury—passes. (The Three Little Maids speak with the
costume designer.)
Antonia’s Line—passes
9 to 5--passes
Heathers—passes
Never-ending Story—fails
Coraline—passes
Lars and the Real Girl—passes
Amelie—passes
The Imitation Game—passes
The Wizard of Oz—passes
Dead Poet’s Society—why do you even ask?
Scrooge--passes (discussion of bed curtains)
Alien, as we all know,
passes
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
