Movies:
tim burton, pixar, coen brothers: big lebowski, fargo etc, wallace and gromit, quentin tarantino, tokyo-ga, shanghai triad, walk the line, amadeus, l.a. confidential, cool hand luke
Books:
lolita, to kill a mockingbird, malcolm x, there are no children here, melancholy tales of oyster boy, love in the time of cholera, edward gorey, the devil of nanking