History Film / WeAreTheNight

* DisappearedDad: Lena lives with her mother, with no appearance or mention of her father.

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* BisexualLveTriangle: Lena is in a love triangle with Louise, the centuries' old vampire who [[ILoveYouVampireSon recently turned her]], and Tom, a human police officer who is tracking Lena and eventually the other vampires (making it overlap with MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle). Louise deliberately turned Lena to be a companion for her (which was how Louise herself was turned, with her sire later dying) and although Lena appreciates the glamorous new life she has as a vampire, she's also deeply unsettled by Louise's willingness to kill even innocent people (Louise also didn't consult Lena before turning her). Tom is comparatively much more moral and also cares for Lena [[spoiler:even after learning she's a vampire]] but as Louise points out, unless Lena turns him she'll [[MayflyDecemberRomance outlive him by centuries]]. [[spoiler:Louise ends up kidnapping Tom and demands Lena tell her she loves her; Lena does but Louise knows it's a lie, prompting her to [[MurderTheHypotenuse shoot Tom]]. Lena in turn kills her. The ending leaves things somewhat ambiguous, but it's implied Lena indeed turned Tom to [[EmergencyTransformation save his life]]]].

* IncompatibleOrientation: Louise is quite smitten by Lena, first flirting with her and then turning her into a vampire to have a companion. However, her kiss later causes Lena to push her away, and Lena's only shown interested by Tom. Louise didn't make sure that Lena was bi or lesbian, clearly, which seems like a huge oversight for having an immortal lover.

''We Are the Night'' is a German live action movie from the year 2010, and was released in US theaters in May 2011. Although the first version of the script was already finished in 1999, it was necessary for other vampire movies like ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' to become popular for the author to be granted the necessary sponsoring to produce it. The author/director is the same guy who is responsible for ''[[Film/DieWelle The Wave]]'', Creator/DennisGansel. The movie was received as a pleasant change from the freshly risen ''Twilight'' routine by the German audience, so the producers decided to release it in other countries as well. Up until now it has been released in France, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and the US.

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

** Charlotte's depression over eternal life while her daughter has aged to an old woman is hinted when early on she fingers a baby's shoe in the story while staring at it wistfully before Louise draws her away. [[spoiler:Charlotte is eventually depressed enough at her daughter dying from old age that she ends her life.]]

* InDaClub: The "''Nightlife''"-sequence, where Lena goes into the nightclub which the vampires own. It's full of attractive young people dancing. Louise spots dances flirtatiously with Lena and is smitten by her. It's nicely maintained, without signs of intoxication or riffraff.

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

* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler:Charlotte, a depressed vampire, kills herself after her elderly daughter dies]].

** Louise is a very elegant {{lesbian vampire}} who always wears stylish skirts or dresses along with her being long hair.

* WouldHitAGirl: The Russian pimp who Louise "sells" Lena to unsurprising has no hesitation about beating her. Later, more understandably police use force to arrest the women (or at least try) when they fight back.

* SwimsuitScene: When the vampires break into a pool after hours they're all shown in swimsuits for an extended period. All are pretty, fairly young women.

* PerkyGoth: Nora is perhaps the archetype. While sporting a goth haircut and dress style, she's also a very cheerful, energetic person.

* MuggingTheMonster: Louise invokes this by "selling" Lena to a Russian pimp, since it will trigger her new vampire nature. Sure enough, after he beats her up, she soon kills him, with the guy clearly unaware of her being a vampire.

* 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]]). The director says that Charlotte is open to sexual relations with both men and women and that Charlotte actually agreed to be bitten.

* BoyishShortHair: Lena has short, dyed black hair at the start as part of her goth style. She's also something of a tomboy, dressing in a very masculine way at first and fighting off Tom (although she gets a more feminine style later).

* LadyLooksLikeADude: Lena initially is dressed in a rattie sweatshirt and pants with short hair, which makes Tom believe she's a man at first.

* BoyishShortHair: Lena has short, dyed black hair at the start as part of her goth style. She's also something of a tomboy, dressing in a very masculine way at first and fighting off Tom (although she gets a more feminine style later).

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

* BoyishShortHair: Lena has short, dyed black hair at the start as part of her goth style. She's also something of a tomboy, dressing in a very masculine way at first and fighting off Tom (although she gets a more feminine style later).

** Lena has a somewhat goth style haircut, plus black or dark clothes, with a lot of piercings and tattoos.

* BoyishShortHair: Lena has short, dyed black hair at the start as part of her goth style. She's also something of a tomboy, dressing in a very masculine way at first and fighting off Tom (although she gets a more feminine style later).

* GirlinessUpgrade

* BoyishShortHair: Lena has short, dyed black hair at the start as part of her goth style.

* BadLiar: Lena lies to people twice, and both times they see through it instantly.

* BoyishShortHair: Lena has short, dyed black hair at the start as part of her tomboy, pseudo-goth look.

** Meanwhile, Nora has a similar hairstyle, with goth style clothing but in bright colors, as a very {{perky goth}}.

* 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 takes the cake: after her beloved Sire died (likely committing 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.]]

** Louise, similarly, is visibly entranced by the fact that Lena threw him off after she'd been bitten to run away. She later gets Lena into her group, with clearly amarous intentions.

* AnyoneCanDie: Most of the main cast are deady bh the end of the film.

* 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.

* {{Yandere}}: Louise to Lena - oh so much. She deeply pines for the younger woman, since by now her last love (Charlotte), is entirely cold toward her. She Lena a vampire to have a companion, as otherwise she's desperately lonely.

* WhatHaveIBecome: Lena gets a lot of these. She's distraught at realizing that as a vampire she's going to feed on blood for survival.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Charlotte, who's a brunette and mostly appears cold to her fellow vampire women, although she does show kindness sometimes. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a result of severe depression, and she eventually kills herself.]]

* 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 takes 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.]]
%%* AnyoneCanDie

* KubrickStare: Both Lena and Louise provides these

* PerkyGoth: Nora is perhaps the archetype.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Charlotte.
* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler:Charlotte]]. This is a Dennis Gansel film after all.

* WhatHaveIBecome: Lena gets a lot of these.

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Louise to Lena]] - oh so much.

* Hypocrite: Louise states all male vampires had to die because they were too loud and boisterous, drawing attention to them. Meanwhile her group is killing humans every night, often in an unusual fashion, recklessly driving their cars around town on high speed, and indulge in illegal activities. Hell, even in this very scene Charlotte draws attention to them because she puts out her cigarette by burning her eye.