History Film / WeAreTheNight

* VampiresOwnNightClubs: Louise, Nora, and Charlotte own an underground nightclub. Louise runs the club, Nora is the DJ, and according to WordOfGod Charlotte handles the finances.

* BadassBookworm: Charlotte is constantly seen reading books and has a taste for taking her vitims' firearms and using them against them.

* CelebrityParadox: Possibly one of the greatest Celebrity Paradoxes of all time occurs in this film; on the airplane in the first scene a television is showing ''The Wave'' directed by Dennis Gansel. No less than three of the actors from ''The Wave'' star in ''We Are The Night'' and two of them play leads. It gets weirder considering that one of the actresses from ''The Wave'' (Jennifer Ulrich) is in the same room as the television showing the film and another actress from ''The Wave'' (Christina DeRega) is in the toilet next to the room. The weirdness goes to extreme level if you see a deleted scene featuring Dennis Gansel as a police officer, considering he both directed and starred in ''The Wave''.
* ColorMotif: The film uses yellow, blue and red heavily. This is partly because these are primary colors and the two former would work well aestethicly with the color of blood. More imporantly, the dayscenes and the tragic scenes uses dull yellow light. The night scenes (especially in the first half) are much more colorful than any of the dayscenes, pointing the colorlessness of Lena's life and the glamour of the vampires.

* DiscretionShot: Although the vampiresses love themselves a little gorefest or two every now and then one will rarely see anything worse than flowing blood. The same goes for sex, which is implied, but never shown.

* ILoveYouVampireSon: Louise turned both Charlotte and Lena because she fell in love with them. While she accepts Charlotte's resistance after a while, she doesn't want to let go of Lena's heart. [[spoiler:And she reacts rather sensitively to losing Charlotte, too.]] It becomes creepier when you realize thanks to {{Word of God}} that Louise turned Nora not only because of her looks, but so that she and Charlotte could have a "child" together, and Charlotte could have a sort of replacement for her real daughter. Charlotte and Nora share a passionate kiss, and Charlotte strokes Nora's hair at one point.

* InsideJob: Due to his connection with Lena, Tom is suspected of being DirtyCop involved with the prime suspects by Lummer and Internal Affairs and is arrested along with Lena.

* LesbianVampire: Louise definitely is, and Nora and Charlotte's kiss could point to them being bisexual (note Charlotte stroking Nora's hair and her reaction to [[spoiler:Nora's death]]). WordOfGod says that Charlotte is open to sexual relations with both men and women and that Charlotte actually agreed to be bitten.

* OldCopYoungCop: Tom & Lummer.

* PragmaticVillainy: In the opening scene Louise is rather annoyed about Nora killing off the entire plane crew and Charlotte's insistance to finish her book when they need to jump out of the plane.

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Nora]]. She stole a car from the mobsters the vampires killed--a Lamborghini no less--without considering that the police would be able to use it to connect them to the murders. She is the one [[spoiler:to die when the cops do just that]].

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Charlotte is depressed with being immortal, because she had a husband and daughter who were left behind when Louise made her a vampire. After watching her now very old daughter die in a nursing home, Charlotte takes her own life.

* {{Kuudere}}: Charlotte.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Like, half the soundtrack is this.
** When Lena enters the club, ''Miserable Girl'' plays, which is a song about a girl trapped in her life.
** The song which plays when Lena and Louise dance, ''Dumpfe Träume'', is almost like it's sung from Louise perspective regarding her feeling towards Lena.
** Then the song that is played directly afterwards is ''In Our Eyes'' which is about people living for the night, that will never die and seeing something in someone elses eyes and trying to seduce someone into that life.
** When Lena has her first go at being a vampire the lyrics on the soundtrack are: ''Land of the free, it starts with you, a perfect sky, a perfect life''.
** When Charlotte sits and mourns her lost life, the song played on the soundtrack is Klaus Nomi's ''Cold Song''. [[spoiler:A song about wishing to commit suicide]].

* WhatHaveIBecome: Lena get's a lot of these.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Charlotte mentions having a baby daughter before becoming vampire, and later she attends said daughter at the hospital, old and on her deathbed.

* PragmaticVillainy: In the opening scene Louise is rather annoyed about Nora killing off the entire plane crew and Charlotte's insistance to finish her book when they need to jump the plane.

* ShooOutTheClowns: The film becomes more darker and dramatic after [[spoiler:Nora dies]]

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Many non-german viewers watched the film fully aware that [[spoiler:Charlotte steps into the sunlight to commit suicide.]] When the film started to get it's international release the distributors were blatantly invoking TrailersAlwaysSpoil by using that particular scene as a promotional clip. It can be justified, since [[spoiler:the sunrise-suicide]] along with Lena's transformation scene were spread on platforms such as Website/YouTube and accumulated a lot of the initial international attention for the film.

* AntiVillain: Louise, Charlotte and Nora all count, since they show no remorse for killing most of their human victims [[spoiler:and even a lot of other vampires]], but Louise gets the cake: After her beloved Sire died (likely commiting suicide), she had to live an entire century alone, desperately looking for a companion. [[spoiler:No wonder she snaps when Tom "takes" Lena away from her.]]

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Many non-german viewers watched the film fully aware that [[spoiler:Charlotte steps into the sunlight to commit suicide.]] When the film started to get it's international release the distributors were blatantly invoking TrailersAlwaysSpoil by using that particular scene as a promotional clip. It can be justified, since [[spoiler:the sunrise-suicide]] along with Lena's transformation scene were spread on platforms such as YouTube and accumulated a lot of the initial international attention for the film.

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Many non-german viewers watched the film fully aware that [[spoiler: Charlotte steps into the sunlight to commit suicide.]] When the film started to get it's international release the distributors were blatantly invoking TrailersAlwaysSpoil by using that particular scene as a promotional clip. It can be justified, since [[spoiler:the sunrise-suicide]] along with Lena's transformation scene were spread on platforms such as YouTube and accumulated a lot of the initial international attention for the film.
* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: We don't really know what became of Lena and Tom]].

* BlessedWithSuck: The vampires. Despite their wealth and ability to enjoy food, sex and drugs, Nora is the only one who seems to really enjoy being a vampire, [[spoiler: but she is worried about killing any boy she might get close too (which she does) in a really extreme version of the Hedgehog's dilemma]], Charlotte [[spoiler: has sunken into a depression because she misses her daughter, having missed her entire life]], Louise realised long ago that all her wealth and luxury is pointless without any one to share it with and Lena is horrified by having to kill humans in order to survive.

* CuteAndPsycho: Nora. She acts very sweet and cheerful, but also happens to love her blood rushes. Deconstructed a little when she actually behaves rude towards someone and later explains to Lena that she does it to protect him from her bloodlust. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Many different shades. Lena will steal money, but doesn't want to kill people, which can be an example of EvenEvilHasStandards. Her initial struggle with Tom is WhiteAndGreyMorality. The vampires take on brutal Russian pimps and rapists, an example of BlackAndGrayMorality. Of course, they also kill completely innocent people, which can be WhiteAndGreyMorality or straight BlackAndWhiteMorality, depending on your view. Charlotte's [[spoiler: killing of the guard]] especially comes off as really pointless. At one point Louise shows remorse for killing innocent people, but only because she promised Lena she wouldn't. If all four vampires are grey, Lena is certainly a lighter shade. Between all of this, plus the various moments of PetTheDog, it's hard to say exactly how good or evil any of these characters are.

* LesbianVampire: Louise definitely is, and Nora and Charlotte's kiss could point to them being bisexual (note Charlotte stroking Nora's hair and her reaction to [[spoiler: Nora's death]]). WordOfGod says that Charlotte is open to sexual relations with both men and women and that Charlotte actually agreed to be bitten.

* ShooOutTheClowns: The film becomes more darker and dramatic after [[spoiler: Nora dies]]
* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler: Charlotte]]. This is a Dennis Gansel film after all.

** When Charlotte sits and mourns her lost life, the song played on the soundtrack is Klaus Nomi's ''Cold Song''. [[spoiler: A song about wishing to commit suicide]].
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Nora]]. She stole a car from the mobsters the vampires killed--a Lamborghini no less--without considering that the police would be able to use it to connect them to the murders. She is the one [[spoiler: to die when the cops do just that]].

* YouNeedToGetLaid: Whenever Tom and Lummer does not talk about work, Lummer talks about how Tom needs a girlfriend [[spoiler: and that is mayby while he smiles at the end of the film]].

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Many non-german viewers watched the film fully aware that [[spoiler: Charlotte steps into the sunlight to commit suicide.]] When the film started to get it's international release the distributors where blatantly invoking TrailersAlwaysSpoil by using that particular scene as a promotional clip. It can be justified, since [[spoiler: the sunrise-suicide]] along with Lena's transformation scene where spread on platforms such as YouTube and accumulated a lot of the initial international attention for the film. This troper can attest to that discovering that clip lead me to see the film and the eventual creation of this very article!

* PerkyGoth: Nora is perhaps the archetype.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Charlotte mentions having a baby daughter before becoming vampire, and later she attends said daughter at the hospital, old and on a deathbed.
* PetTheDog: Louise tries to do this when Lena freaks out over the injured watchmen. [[spoiler:The others don't seem to get why.]]
** Louise apologises to the stewardess and kills her off quickly in the opening scene.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Louise gives Lena a post-transformation bath during which all of her various wounds heal, her tattoos and piercings disappear, her hair grows longer, and the black dye dissolves to show her natural auburn. Afterward, she appears significantly more conventionally attractive overall. She looks so different that it's almost as if she was a different person.

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: [[spoiler: Charlotte's SuicideBySunlight]] is a bit of and OpenSecret. After the release of the film, the scene popped up on YouTube, along the scene where Lena transforms and generated a lot of interest in the film. So upon the official english release both those scenes where used as promo clips. YMMW if this was a good decision, but this troper, who started this particular page, got interested from seeing one of those YouTube fragments.

* YourVampiresSuck: Slightly hinted at in a conversation between Lena and the other women. When Lena asks if there are male vampires too, Louise states that [[spoiler:they murdered them all]] because they just were too noticeable. If that's not an allusion to [[{{Film/Twilight}} sparkling skin]] and [[InterviewWithTheVampire bloody meals on stage]] as well as various other works, nothing is.

* AntiVillain: Louise, Charlotte and Nora all count, since they show no remorse for killing most of their human victims [[spoiler:and even a lot of other vampires]], but Louise gets the cake: After her beloved Sire died (likely commiting suicide), she had to live an entire century alone, desperately looking for a companion. [[spoiler:No wonder she snaps when Tom takes Lena away from her.]]

** Lousie apologises to the stewardess and kills her off quickly in the opening scene.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Louise gives Lena a post-transformation bath during which all of her various wounds heal, her tattoos and piercings disappear, her hair grows longer, and the black dye dissolves to show her natural auburn. Afterward, she appears significantly more conventionally
attractive overall. She looks so different that it's almost as if she was a different person.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Louise gives Lena a post-transformation bath during which all of her various wounds heal, her tattoos and piercings disappear, her hair grows longer, and the black dye dissolves to show her natural auburn. Afterward, she appears significantly more conventionally attractive overall. She looks so different that it's almost as if she was a different person.

* InDaClub: The "''Nighlife''"-sequence.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Many different shades. Lena will steal money, but doesn't want to kill people, which can be an example of EvenEvilHasStandards. Her initial struggle with Tom is WhiteAndGreyMorality. The vampires take on brutal Russian pimps and rapists, an example of BlackAndGrayMorality. Of course, they also kill completely innocent people, which can be WhiteAndGreyMorality or straight BlackAndWhiteMorality, depending on your view. At one point Louise shows remorse for killing innocent people, but only because she promised Lena she wouldn't. If all four vampires are grey, Lena is certainly a lighter shade. Between all of this, plus the various moments of PetTheDog, it's hard to say exactly how good or evil any of these characters are.

* TrainingFromHell: To teach Lena how to be a vampire, Louise and the other two give her to Russian pimps, who try to beat and rape her, in order to trigger her natural defense mechanisms. The other three still have to step in to prevent Lena from being too badly beaten.

Lena is a teenage girl who lives together with her mother in Berlin and tries to live off what little they have - and of what she can steal. All of a sudden, she attracts the attention of two very different parties: the Berlin police, especially the curious policeman Tom, for a particularly cheeky theft and a band of three [[LesbianVampire vampiresses]] who discover her in an underground club. The eldest of the vampires, Louise, falls in love with Lena and bites her to make her a new companion.

* FangThpeak: Originally the vampire teeth worn by the actresses caused this, but the make-up designers invented a new model that aveeted this and worked so well that the actresses sometimes forgot that they wore them.

* GroinAttack: Tom get's a hard kick in the nards.