Red carpet laid outside movies regularly (6)
I believe the answer is:
maoist
'red' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'laid outside movies regularly' is the wordplay.
'laid' becomes 'mat' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'outside' indicates putting letters inside.
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
The alternating letters of 'movies' are 'ois'.
'mat' placed around 'ois' is 'MAOIST'.
'carpet' is the link.
This may not be right. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for maoist that I've seen before include "Advocate of a Chinese form of communism" , "Devotee once of the little red book" , "Marxist supporter" , "Political ideologist" , "Chinese-style left-winger" .)