Let me elaborate on my above post of the Japanese film, Departures. (It won an Oscar for the best foreign movie).
It's a film about a guy that's kind of a fuck up. In Japanese culture, when you are of age, you should be working. This guy couldn't hold onto a job to save his life.
He gets a job that supposedly pays well, but is depressing. He is kind of a funeral director's assistant. However, funerals are different than they are in America. The dead usually stay at their home and people go to their home to pay respects. There is a huge cleaning ritual to prepare the body, then the makeup and such. They are perfectionists. Also, pretty much everyone in Japan is cremated, due to a lack of room. They still have grave sites, but typically it's a grave site for an entire family and not a single person.
So yeah, it's a movie about death, but it runs the gamut of emotions. There's happy tears, sad tears, those fucked up "what the hell?" tears. It's an incredibly beautiful movie, and I suggest everyone watch it. You'll need a multi-region DVD or BluRay player if you're a US person though. They never released it in any form over here.