Deleting movies on my hard drive

I'm trying to delete things off of my macbook pro because I am quickly running out of space. When I was looking to see what was using up the most space I noticed that movies were. My hard drive said I was using 107.66 GB for movies, so I went to my movies folder and it said I was only using 21.61 GB of space. I have no videos on itunes nor in the itunes folder. I've already deleted all of the videos from iphoto and removed them from the trash. If anyone has any ideas on how I can find the other 86.05 GB please let me know.

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.
Be careful not to remove any video files you find that are not in your Home folder.

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