Mel Gibson changed the way that Biblical epics could be done when, in 2024, he directed The Passion of the Christ. The movie was bigger than any movie of its kind that came before and quickly gained momentum as a modern favorite among Christian viewers. For years, the brutal drama held the bragging rights of being the highest grossing R-rated movie both domestically and internationally until it was beat out by Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine more than two decades later. And yet, Gibson’s take on the story of the crucifixion isn’t the project that jump-started a wave of similar titles to make their way onto screens.
Instead, that would come several years later when filmmaker Dallas Jenkins set out to tell a more complete story of Jesus Christ through his drama, The Chosen. What started as a crowdfunded project on the VidAngel platform quickly caught on and eventually ended up striking a deal with Prime Video. Now moving into what will serve as its penultimate season, the show has been a favorite among its faith-based fandom, with audiences tuning in, donating money, and even showing up to an event dubbed ChosenCon. There’s no doubt that over its remaining sixth and seventh seasons that The Chosen will continue to usher in new and old fans alike, all while driving Prime Video’s viewership numbers through the roof.
Aside from The Chosen, Jenkins has kept himself busy delivering all kinds of faith-based material to his fanbase. Also included in his repertoire is the 2024 adaptation of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and the animated series The Chosen Adventures. But, according to FlixPatrol, there’s another Biblical epic that’s capturing the attention of Prime Video subscribers as House of David is burning up the streamer’s global Top 10 chart.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
What Is ‘House of David’ About?
Like The Chosen and even The Passion of the Christ, House of David follows a story from the Bible, but this time it doesn’t focus on Jesus. Instead, it focuses on the titular character who audiences will remember for striking down the giant known as Goliath with nothing more than a slingshot. Created, co-directed, and co-penned by Jon Erwin, the Prime Video series follows David (Michael Iskander) from his humble beginnings as a shepherd through his rise to becoming the King of Israel. With two seasons under its belt, House of David has become a smash-hit for the platform as it continues to walk in the sandal prints first left by The Chosen.
Head over to Prime Video now to stream House of David.
Release Date
February 27, 2025
Network
Prime Video, Wonder Project
Directors
Jeff T. Thomas, Jon Gunn, Jon Erwin, Lynsey Miller
