The Bechdel Test for Ethnicity

How beige is your favourite film?

We watched the entire IMDb Top 250. We've got some notes.

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The Passion of Joan of Arc

It Happened One Night

Gone with the Wind

The Wizard of Oz

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Dictator

To Be or Not to Be

Double Indemnity

The Best Years of Our Lives

It's a Wonderful Life

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Bicycle Thieves

Singin' in the Rain

The Wages of Fear

On the Waterfront

Dial M for Murder

Pather Panchali

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Wild Strawberries

Witness for the Prosecution

The Seventh Seal

Some Like It Hot

North by Northwest

Judgment at Nuremberg

To Kill a Mockingbird

Lawrence of Arabia

The Great Escape

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

For a Few Dollars More

The Sound of Music

The Battle of Algiers

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2001: A Space Odyssey

Once Upon a Time in the West

A Clockwork Orange

The Godfather: Part II

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Deer Hunter

The Elephant Man

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Once Upon a Time in America

Back to the Future

Full Metal Jacket

Cinema Paradiso

Grave of the Fireflies

My Neighbor Totoro

Dead Poets Society

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Dances with Wolves

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The Silence of the Lambs

Beauty and the Beast

In the Name of the Father

Schindler's List

The Shawshank Redemption

Léon: The Professional

The Usual Suspects

Princess Mononoke

Good Will Hunting

Children of Heaven

Life Is Beautiful

L.A. Confidential

American History X

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

The Big Lebowski

Saving Private Ryan

The Truman Show

The Sixth Sense

American Beauty

Requiem for a Dream

A Beautiful Mind

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Catch Me If You Can

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Memories of Murder

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Howl's Moving Castle

The Incredibles

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Million Dollar Baby

My Father and My Son

Pan's Labyrinth

The Lives of Others

Like Stars on Earth

No Country for Old Men

There Will Be Blood

The Dark Knight

The Secret in Their Eyes

Inglourious Basterds

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

How to Train Your Dragon

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

The Intouchables

Django Unchained

The Dark Knight Rises

The Wolf of Wall Street

12 Years a Slave

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Mad Max: Fury Road

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Avengers: Infinity War

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Avengers: Endgame

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Top Gun: Maverick

1921

2022

The Handmaiden

Dir. Park Chan-wook (2016, IMDb #244)

The Handmaiden poster

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We looked high and low, but not a… whoa, hang on, what the fuck. Alexander Scarborough (Pyeonghwa Hotel Restaurant Manager) with the reverse beigeroo.

SCORE: BEIGE FEVER

Cast

Film Details

Budget

8.5m USD

Gross

37.8m USD

IMDb User Score

8.1

Metacritic

84%

Synopsis

A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.

Major Wins and Nominations

69 wins and an additional 108 nominations (approximate).

71%

of the Top 250's credited cast lands in the palest band of the beige scale.

We counted every credited actor across all 250 films — then watched 500+ hours so you don't have to.

The beige-o-meter

Each credited cast member is coded 1–5. Averaged across the cast, a film lands somewhere on this scale.

1CREAMY

2BEIGE FEVER

3MIDDLEBEIGE

4DOWN TO BROWN

5WELCOME TO BEIGEWATCH

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