A 'feminist' film rating that was created to highlight the role of women in cinema has been adopted by IMDb.
The 'F-rating' was created by Holly Tarquini of the Bath Film Festival to highlight the lack of women working in the movie industry, and has since been employed by the film information site.
Some 21,800 films have been tagged with the F-Rating on IMDb so far.
"The F-rating is a great way to highlight women on screen and behind the camera," IMDb founder Col Needham told Bath Chronicle.
The F-rating was first created in 2014.
Inspired by the Bechdel test (which requires a movie to have at least two women in it who talk to each other about something besides a man), it is designed to examine the percentage of which movies are written, directed and starred in by women.
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Movies that tick all three of this criteria are awarded a 'triple rating', which has been rewarded to films such as Frozen, American Honey and Bridget Jones's Baby.
Its creators hope the rating will one day no longer be necessary, when gender equality is realised in cinema.
"The F-rating is intended to make people talk about the representation of women on and off screen," added creator Holly Tarquini.
"Our goal is to reach the stage when the F rating is redundant because 50 per cent of the stories we see on screen are told by and about film's unfairly under-represented half of the population – women."
The good news is that the role of women in cinema is slowly improving.
Both Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will pass the Bechdel test when they are released, while Rogue One: A Star Wars Story passed the test in its promotional trailers.
Now, that's what we call progress.
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