Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Year: 2005
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, Melissa Leo, Levon Helm, Mel Rodriguez
Running Time: 121 minutes

Film Review:
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

Nearby the border of Mexico - in Texas, the arrogant newcomer border patrolman Mike Norton by accident kills the Mexican cowboy Melquiades Estrada and buries him in the desert. When Melquiades's body is accidentally found one week later, his best friend, the ranch foreman Pete Perkins, claims the body to fulfill his promise and bury Melquiades in his hometown Jimenez. He presses the local sheriff Belmont to find the killer. Melquiades body is reburied in the local cemetery. When Rachel discloses the identity of the killer, Pete kidnaps Mike and forces him to dig the grave and bring the body to Melquiades's family in Mexico. While in their journey to Mexico, the sad reality of the hopeless Mexicans that live in the proximity of the border with USA is disclosed.
This is a film with many surprisingly intense sad and some intensely funny moments.
Here is an example for a sad moment:

On the Texan site Mike and Pete arrive at the house of the "old man with the radio" - a blind ancient looking old man with hardly anything to eat - listening to spanish radio although he himself does not speak any Spanish:

Pete Perkins: Thank you!
Old Man with Radio: I need to ask you a favor.
Pete Perkins: Anything you want.
Old Man with Radio: I need you to go ahead and shoot me. My son, he ain't coming back.
Pete Perkins: Oh, he'll come back.
Old Man with Radio: He said he had cancer. Told me to go into town with him. But I don't want to go. I've lived here all my life. I don't want to offend God by shooting myself. It's a problem, you see.
Pete Perkins: We don't want to offend God neither.
[Pete and Mike start to leave]
Old Man with Radio: You're good people. You need to go ahead and shoot me.

Viewing highly recommended!