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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ1210055
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Red light or redlight may refer to:

Science and technology

Red, any of a number of similar colors evoked by light in the wavelength range of 630–740 nm

Red light, a traffic light color signifying stop

Red light, a color of safelight used in photographic darkrooms

Red light therapy

Arts and entertainment

Red Lights (novel) (Feux Rouges), a 1953 book by Georges Simenon

Film

Red Lights (1923 film), a 1923 American silent film

Red Light (film), a 1949 crime film starring George Raft

Red Lights (2004 film) (Feux rouges), a French thriller directed by Cédric Kahn

Red Lights (2012 film), a thriller by Rodrigo Cortés

Redlight (film), a 2009 documentary film

Redlights, a 2023 short film by Eva Thomas that was subsequently expanded into the 2025 feature Nika and Madison

Music

Red Light, a sublabel of Tunnel Records

Redlight (musician) (born 1980), British electronic musician

Albums

Red Light (Bladee album), 2018

Red Light (f(x) album), 2014

Redlight (Grails album), 2004

Redlight (The Slackers album), 1997

Red Light!, by Indigo Swing, 1999

Songs

"Red Light" (Linda Clifford song)

"Red Light" (David Nail song)

"Red Light" (Siouxsie and the Banshees song)

"Red Light" (U2 song)

"Redlight" (song), by Ian Carey

"Red Lights" (song), by Tiësto

"Red Lights", by Curiosity Killed The Cat from Keep Your Distance

"Red Light", by Fastball from Keep Your Wig On

"Red Light", by Jonny Lang from Long Time Coming

"Red Light", by Eddie Murphy, featuring Snoop Dogg

"Red Light", by The Strokes from First Impressions of Earth

"Red Light", by Wall of Voodoo from Dark Continent

"Red Light!", by XXXTentacion from A Ghetto Christmas Carol

"Redlight", by Destroy Lonely from If Looks Could Kill

"Redlight", by Kelly Osbourne from Sleeping in the Nothing

"Red Lights", by Stray Kids from Noeasy

"Red Lights", by Chloe x Halle from Sugar Symphony

Other uses

Redlight Children Campaign, an American non-profit organization

Common synonym for goals in ice hockey, derived from the red lamp behind the net activated to confirm a goal

André Racicot (born 1969), nicknamed "Red Light", retired ice hockey goalie

Operation Red Light II, a 2006 coalition military operation of the Iraq War

See also

Red-light district, a part of an urban area where there is a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses

Red Light Lizzie (fl.

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