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Night Train (夜车)
Night Train (夜车, Ye che) is Diao Yinan's 2007 Chinese drama, premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard, starring Liu Dan as a bailiff drawn to the widower of a woman she executed; distinct from Yim Ho's 1980 Hong Kong film The Happenings.
Night Train Lane
Night Train Lane (Richard Lane, 1928-2002), undrafted NFL cornerback for the Rams, Cardinals, and Lions; record 14 interceptions as a 1952 rookie, 68 career picks, Hall of Fame 1974.
Night Train to Lisbon (film)
Night Train to Lisbon (2013), Bille August drama adapted from Pascal Mercier's novel, starring Jeremy Irons as a Swiss professor investigating a Salazar-era resistance doctor in Lisbon.
Night Train to Munich
Night Train to Munich (1940), also released as Gestapo, is a Carol Reed British comedy spy-thriller starring Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, and Paul Henreid, written by Launder and Gilliat as a follow-up to The Lady Vanishes.
Night Trap
Night Trap is a 1992 full-motion video game released as a launch title for the Sega CD in North America on October 15, 1992, starring Dana Plato.1
Night vision
Night vision: low-light seeing mediated by rod photoreceptors and rhodopsin, restored through slow dark adaptation and the RPE visual cycle; vitamin A deficiency, Oguchi disease, and AMD delay it.
Night Visions
Night Visions (2012) is Imagine Dragons' debut studio album, released September 4, 2012 on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope, produced with Alex da Kid; it debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, spent 408 weeks there, and is 7x platinum in the US.
Night Wanderer (夜旅人)
Night Wanderer (夜旅人) is Zhao Xizhi's time-travel romance novel and its 24-episode iQiyi drama: a 1937 Shanghai lawyer and a modern forensic doctor meet nightly via apartment 699; shelved five years after Deng Lun's tax case, revived with Fu Xinbo via AI face-swap.
Night Watch (1973 film)
Night Watch (1973) is a London-set psychological thriller directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, and Billie Whitelaw, adapted from Lucille Fletcher's Broadway play and produced by Fabergé's Brut Productions; middling reviews, a Stephen King favorite.
Night Watch (2004 film)
Night Watch (Ночной дозор, Nochnoy Dozor) is Timur Bekmambetov's 2004 Russian urban fantasy horror film adapted from Sergei Lukyanenko's novel, about Light and Dark forces under a truce in Moscow; it set Russian box-office records and spawned Day Watch (2006).
Night Watch (Phillips novel)
Night Watch (2023) is Jayne Anne Phillips's Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel, also longlisted for the National Book Award, following twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mute mother Eliza at the real Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in post-Civil War West Virginia, alternating 1874 and 1864.
Night Watch (Pratchett novel)
Night Watch is a 2002 comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the twenty-ninth Discworld book, following Sam Vimes thrown thirty years into his city's past.
Night Watch (Ночной Дозор) (Lukyanenko novel)
Night Watch (Ночной Дозор) is Sergei Lukyanenko's 1998 urban fantasy novel, first of the Watch series, following Light Other Anton Gorodetsky of the Moscow Night Watch, who polices Dark Others under a Light-Dark truce and inspired the 2004 hit film.
Night Witches
The Night Witches, or Nachthexen, were the German nickname for the all-female Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment, which flew harassment bombing missions on the Eastern Front from 1942.
Night Wolves (Ночные волки)
Night Wolves (Ночные волки) is a Russian nationalist motorcycle club founded in Moscow, officially named 31 May 1989, led by Alexander "The Surgeon" Zaldostanov, with about 5,000 members and dozens of chapters, close Kremlin ties, Wolf Holding businesses, and US, Canadian, and EU sanctions.
Night writing
Night writing (écriture nocturne) is Charles Barbier's raised-dot writing system, precursor to braille, demonstrated at the Paris blind school in 1821; the tale that it began as a military code was invented in the 1950s.
Night-blooming cereus
Night-blooming cereus, also called Reina de la noche, is a common name for at least four cactus species, including dragonfruit, whose large white flowers open for a single night.
Night-Shining White
Night-Shining White (照夜白圖, Zhaoyebai tu) is a Tang dynasty ink handscroll of about 750 attributed to Han Gan, showing Emperor Xuanzong's favorite charger straining against its tether, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Night-vision device
Night-vision devices are electro-optical instruments, such as monoculars and goggles, that enable users to observe a scene in total darkness by amplifying ambient light or detecting infrared.
Night-watchman state
Night-watchman state (Nachtwächterstaat), also called the minimal or minarchist state: a government limited to police, courts, defense, and contract enforcement. Coined as an insult by Lassalle in 1862; defended by Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974).
Nightbirde
Nightbirde, stage name of Jane Kristen Marczewski (1990-2022), American singer-songwriter from Zanesville, Ohio; her AGT season 16 original "It's OK" won Simon Cowell's Golden Buzzer before she withdrew and died of breast cancer.
Nightbitch (film)
Nightbitch (2024) is a dark comedy film written and directed by Marielle Heller, adapted from Rachel Yoder's 2021 novel, starring Amy Adams as a stay-at-home mother apparently transforming into a dog. Searchlight released it December 6, 2024; Metascore 56, Rotten Tomatoes 59%.
Nightborn
Nightborn (Yön lapsi) is a 2026 Finnish folk horror film by Hanna Bergholm, starring Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint as parents of a monstrous newborn; it premiered in Berlinale 2026 Main Competition and won the Silver Méliès.
Nightbreed
Nightbreed is Clive Barker's 1990 horror-fantasy film adapting his novel Cabal, starring Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, and director David Cronenberg as serial killer Dr. Decker; a studio-recut flop that became a cult classic restored as The Cabal Cut and the 2014 Director's Cut.
NightCafe
NightCafe, also called NightCafe Creator, is a web-based AI art platform founded by Angus Russell in Sydney in November 2019, generating images from prompts using multiple AI models.
Nightcall (song)
Nightcall: 2010 synthwave song by French artist Kavinsky (Vincent Belorgey), produced with Daft Punk's Guy-Manuel, vocals by Lovefoxxx; famous as the Drive (2011) opening-credits track and the most Shazamed song in one day after the Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony.
Nightcap (podcast)
Nightcap (Nightcap with Unc and Ocho) is a nighttime sports talk podcast launched September 2023 on The Volume, hosted by Shannon Sharpe and Chad Ochocinco Johnson, giving unfiltered NFL, NBA, and college football takes and instant post-game reactions.
Nightclub
Nightclub: a late-night private venue for dancing to live or recorded music, also called discotheque or dance club. Known for DJs, dance floors, club lighting, door policies, high sound levels, and a global decline in venue numbers since 2020.
Nightcore
Nightcore: sped-up, pitch-raised electronic music style and the Norwegian duo (Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Søderholm, 2002) that originated it; distinct from slowed daycore edits, now the basis of TikTok's sped-up song trend.
Nightcrawler (character)
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) is a Marvel Comics X-Men mutant created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, debuting in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975). A blue, tailed German teleporter who travels via the Brimstone Dimension with a signature BAMF sound, he is a devout Catholic, Excalibur founder, and was played by Alan Cumming in X2.