Can't find movie files that are eating up my memory

I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13 inch, Late 2012) and last week I kept getting notifications that my memory was almost full so I checked out "Storage" under "About this Mac" and it showed that about 120 GB were being taken up by movies. I removed all the videos from my Mac and removed all my files from iPhoto, adjusted search criteria in Finder for movies, and emptied the trash and restarted my computer several times. Now it shows that I have 113 GB of movies and I can't find out where these alleged files are. Any suggestions on how to deal with this? Do I need to reformat my computer?

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