Red Shoe Diaries is a 1992 romantic drama television film directed by Zalman King and starring David Duchovny, Brigitte Bako, and Billy Wirth. The story follows a man who grieves the loss of his fiancée and discovers a diary she kept that details a side of her he never knew. The film is intended as a pilot to the Showtime anthology series Red Shoe Diaries and premiered on the network on May 16, 1992.

Plot
Jake Winters, a successful architect, attends the funeral of his fiancée, Alex. It is revealed Alex’s death was the result of suicide. A heartbroken Jake returns to the upscale loft he shared with Alex and discovers a diary she kept leading up to her last days. Her diary details an affair she had.

Flashbacks show the beginnings of Alex’s affair. While walking home one day, she has a chance meeting with a handsome construction worker when he saves her from a collision with a car by pulling her into his arms. Alex becomes infatuated with the worker and decides to follow him one day, learning he works a second job as a shoe salesman. She goes into the store and buys a pair of red high heels from him, and the man invites her to meet him at his place the following night.

Despite her loving relationship with Jake, she embarks on a torrid affair with the other man, named Tom. Feeling guilt for her actions, she attempts to pause the affair, but this only prompts Tom to seek Alex out at her interior design job and threaten to make their relationship public. Alex starts to feel trapped between the two men and wishes she could solicit advice from other women by placing a personal ad in the newspaper, thinking to herself: "Woman out of control seeks clues to own dark pain and passion from other women's experiences. Willing to pay top dollar. Send diaries to Red Shoes, P.O. Box...."

On Alex’s 26th birthday, Jake proposes to her. She is overcome with joy but has hesitations, warning Jake about her history of self-destructive behavior. Jake brushes away her worries with reassurances he loves her. Alex brings Jake to inform her mother of her engagement, but her mother is cold and judgmental. Though Alex is mortified by her mother’s condescending comments to Jake, he remains undeterred and questions what she is so afraid of.