Movie folder location

Is there a way to have iTunes store movies in the same movies folder in the Finder window vs the movies folder in iTunes Music?

Yes, but you have to decide if you want to override iTunes' desire to store music the way it likes to. In doing so you have to be willing to do more media management manually such as not have iTunes delete items automatically when you delete them from your library.  There's minor extended issues as well if trying to use scripts that expect items to be in certain places.
Method 1) Put the movie file in the folder you want to. Hold down the option key while dragging to iTunes. This overrides the "copy to folder when adding to library" feature temporarily.
Method 2) Set preferences for iTunes to not copy files to iTunes folder when adding items to library. Note, this will do it for everything, not just movies.
3) Use Dougscript "Move Files To Folder" to do what it says.

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