Application are takimi weird amount of storage

Hello,
I've got a Mid 2013 Macbook Air, i keep it fairly clean, i'm on the 10.9.5 mavericks and when i go into the "Informations about this Mac" (I have a polish version of system, it could be different on the english version) it shows up that Applications are taking 115 GB of disk space!
It says that i have 94 gb of free space from the 120,47 GB overall.
Going from the left:
Audio, Movies, Photos, Applications/Programs, Backup files, Others
The Disk Utility tool says that my SSD is okay, so what's wrong with that? Why it says that applications are taking 115GB disk space? Also I can't find any movies on my mac, but it's somehow taking 48 mb of storage. The same goes with Photos. The only photos i've got are those that come with mac (screen savers and wallpapers) + 3 other wallpapers that i've downloaded.
Also i have one more question -> Do you recommend using applications like AppZapper, or should i manualy clean my SSD? I'm trying to delete all the files that i find useless, the leftovers from the apps that i've previously uninstalled etc., but i don't always know if something is important or not and I'm scared that i could delete some important stuff.

Of course auto-correct got involved and image is not working as well, sorry for that but today everything is against me.
Topic should of course be "Applications are taking weird amount of storage"
Re-indexing has changed my problem. Now it looks like this:
Going from the left:
Audio, Movies, Photos, Applications/Programs, Backup files, Others
Image should work this time. This is re-upload of the first picture:

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