Movies:
princess mononoke, sprited away, waking life, easy rider, fight club, amelie, la haine, hero, clockwork orange, deadman, human traffic, layer cake, fox and the hound, drei nüsse für aschenbrödel and so on and so on...
Television:
TV is opium for the people
Books:
hard boiled wonderland by haruki murakami, momo by micheal ende, snow crash by neal stephenson, book of five rings by miyamoto musashi, der kleine prinz by antoine de saint exupéry, mutant message by marlo morgan (still nice fiction)
Heroes:
princess mononoke, ernesto che guevara, noam chomsky, miyamoto musashi, leonardo da vinci, Guybrush Threepwood (mighty pirate)