So, let’s pretend we’re going to rent a movie for a very, very sheltered young person. We want ('eh, let’s give him a name…ummm…Sheldon will do)…we want Sheldon to stay the course of not seeing anything that might expose him to the reality that people die. But, we want him to see a really, really good movie. What’s our best choice? What is the best movie out there in which nobody dies?
I just looked through the Top 250 on the IMDB, and damn, this is not easy!
Nobody dies in High Fidelity that I recall, so there’s the bar for now.
“Night of the Living Dead” or “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
C’mon…the kid has to learn sometime. Better to rip the bandage off quick than to try to remove it slowly. 
How about “The Producers” or “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?”
Slacker
First of all, that is a fantastic name.
Secondly, what are you trying to do? Raise the next Buddha?
That Thing You Do
Annie Hall
John Cusack’s character gets back together with his girlfriend after he attends her father’s funeral. So death is a definite plot point.
Yeah, I was going to say Whale Rider but then remembered the kid is orphaned at the start of the film… Hm… This is going to be tougher than I thought…
That’s not entirely correct; the father of John Cusack’s fiance` died. Granted, it occurred off-screen and we never saw the character but I don’t know how strict your rule is.
How about Toy Story?
Does anybody die in Shine?
Oo! I know, I know! Children of a Lesser God! No one dies in that.
Preston Sturges comedies: The Lady Eve, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, Christmas in July
The romances of Eric Rohmer: Chloe in the Afternoon, The Aviator’s Wife, An Autumn Tale, A Summer’s Tale, My Night at Maud’s, Rendez-vous in Paris, Pauline at the Beach, Claire’s Knee
30s musicals: Fred & Ginger (Top Hat, Shall We Dance, Swing Time), Busby Berkeley (*Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933), Love Me Tonight.
Stanley Donen musicals: On the Town, Singin’ in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Pajama Game
Howard Hawks comedies: Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Monkey Business, Man’s Favorite Sport?, Twentieth Century
Most Buster Keaton (Seven Chances, Sherlock, Jr., Steamboat Bill, Jr.), Harold Lloyd (The Freshman, Safety Last, The Kid Brother) and Marx Bros. (A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business) comedies, and some
Plus quite a few the films of Yasujiro Ozu (An Autumn Afternoon, Late Spring, I Was Born But…)
*The Italian Straw Hat
Trouble in Paradise
It’s a Gift
Meet Me in St. Louis
All About Eve
A Streetcar Named Desire
All That Heaven Allows
French Cancan
Smiles of a Summer Night
Sweet Smell of Success
L’Eclisse
The Graduate
Playtime
Two-Lane Blacktop
The Bitter Tears of Petra van Kant
Kings of the Road
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Local Hero
This Is Spinal Tap
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
A Room with a View
Bull Durham
Passion Fish
The Piano
La Belle Noiseuse
Smoke
Topsy Turvy
25th Hour
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Plus a ton of documentaries…
Let’s see. There’s - no, someone dies there.
How about - nope - or maybe - no on that one.
I’m pretty sure no one died in Singin’ in the Rain.
Oh, hell. Just show the kid the traumatizing triple feature of Bambi, Old Yeller and The Lion King and get it over with.
I believe that The Others counts…
Pfeh, show off!
Andy starts off the movie with no father. Whether he lost his father to divorce or death is unclear, but he’s definitely missing.
Hmmm…no one dies in Hackers, but there are Angelina Jolie’s boobies. A Bug’s Life is also good. I believe the grasshoppers merely decide to leave rather than dying. Another good Pixar movie is Monster’s Inc.
Addicted to Love, the Meg Ryan/Matthew Broderick comedy?
Failing that, try Grave of the Fireflies or Barefoot Gen. A couple of animated family movies from Japan. Trust me. >;D
A Beautiful Mind murdered math questions.
A Christmas Story (unless you count the duck).
Back to the Future (but only if you watch it all the way to the end).
The Truman Show (sorta).
I definitely consider these quality, but YMMV…
The last scene has David and Gillian at David’s father’s grave; he expresses his regrets.
I think the mom in Toy Story was a divorcee. A widow would have been far less cheerful about moving house.
I was gonna suggest Clueless, even though a male probably wouldn’t be interested (except if he’s old enough to ogle), but then I remembered that Cher’s mom died in a liposuction accident.