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->''"If you don't want to be like everyone else, you've got two choices: You either get crushed in their world - or you build your own."''

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.

While Lena is scared at first, the other vampires, Louise and her younger companions - Charlotte and Nora - quickly introduce her to the positive aspects of her new "life": supernatural powers, enhanced attractiveness, endless parties and every luxury she can dream of. But while Louise does her best to make Lena love the experience as a vampire, both Charlotte and Nora let on hints to the darker sides of it. And it all goes downhill when Tom and Lena take a liking to each other - and Louise, who waited centuries to find her perfect partner, is not amused about a mortal man standing in her way.

''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.

Not to be confused with the film ''Film/WeOwnTheNight''.

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!!This film provides examples of:

* AbandonedPlayground
* 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.]]
* AnyoneCanDie
* [[spoiler: CatFight: Painfully averted. The fight between Lena and Louise has Louise dislocating Lena's arm and throwing her through a thick concrete wall and Lena showing a lead pipe into Louise stomac among other things. It borders on Fridge Horror when you think about that Louise has to beat/be beaten by the woman she is desperatly in love with]].
* 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''.
* 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.]]
* CreditsGag: The earless mobster is named "van Gogh" in the credits.
* 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.
* EyeScream: Charlotte puts out her cigarette with her eye, just to freak out a restaurant patron. In her defense, the eye heals instantly.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Both played straight with Lena and subverted with Nora. While Nora always appears friendly and happy, she also enjoys killing mortals for blood. Lena on the other hand is having a real problem with anything that contains blood and is not a traditional drinking vessel.
* PerkyGoth: Nora is perhaps the archetype.
* 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.
* GroinAttack: Tom get's a hard kick in the nards.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Charlotte to Louise, but it's implied that they grew apart after a long process. And later in the movie, even Lena evolves to this.
* 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.
* KickTheDog: The entrance scene shows the vampiresses in a plane full of corpses, probably mostly innocent people. It doesn't seem to bother them at all.
** Later in the movie, Nora invokes a KickTheDog moment right in front of Lena's eyes when the women lure two watchmen towards them and kill them although such harsh means were not necessarily justified. Needless to say, Lena doesn't take it very well.
* KubrickStare: Both Lena and Louise provides these
* {{Kuudere}}: Charlotte.
* 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]]), but Lena is neither. She probably sees Louise as a mother figure who takes care of her, unlike her real mother, and only shows aversion towards Louise when kissed by her. When Louise first starts to kiss her Lena is noticeably uncomfortable.
** {{Word of God}} says that Charlotte is open to sexual relations with both men and women and that Charlotte actually agreed to be bitten.
* [[HoYay LesYay]]: Lots.
** Charlotte's and Nora's behaviour seems to be far more than friendly.
** Louise kissing Lena.
** The vampires seem to visit an HBTQ-club.
* OldCopYoungCop: Tom & Lummer
* OneGenderRace: Vampires are all female, thanks to all of the male vampires having been exterminated for being too noticeable.
* OnlyOneName: All characters in the film.
* OnlySaneMan: Lummer is the only character without any personality disorders or mental problems.
* PetTheDog: Louise tries to do this when Lena freaks out over the injured watchmen. [[spoiler:The others don't seem to get why.]]
* ReincarnationRomance: When Louise talks about her own sire, she states that she was looking for someone with the same glint in her eyes, hinting at the wish to find a reincarnation of her former companion.
* 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.
* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler: Charlotte]]. This is a Dennis Gansel film after all.
* SuperSenses
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Nora]]. She stole a car from [[spoiler: the mobsters the vampires killed]] - a Lamborghini no less - without considering that [[spoiler: the police would be able to use it to connect them to the murders]].
** And she is the one [[spoiler: to die when the cops do just that]].
* {{Tsundere}}: Lena towards Tom, and Nora towards a young man from the staff of their hotel. Both do it to protect the men and to keep up the {{Masquerade}}.
* 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.
** Louis seems rather uncomfortable with this procedure, which was suggested rather coldly by Charlotte.
* VampireBitesSuck: It's obvious that the women know where the carotid is - almost every bite ends in a red puddle.
* {{Wall Crawling}}
* WhatHaveIBecome: Lena get's a lot of these
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Louise to Lena]] - oh so much.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain
* 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.

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