How to safely delete movies if I originally clicked Keep File instead of Move to Trash?

Hi,
100 GB of my 250GB hard drive is iTunes movies, and I'm about out of space on the drive. So I went through the process of deleting the movies from iTunes, making sure to leave the "Also delete this item from iCloud" unchecked on the prompt "Are you sure you want to delete this copy of the selected item?", but I incorrectly clicked Keep File instead of Move to Trash on the prompt "Do you want to move the selected item to the Trash, or keep it in the iTunes Media folder?"
So my hard drive is still full and I'm not able to get back to the offer to Move to Trash. When I went to the Media folder and moved a movie to the Trash myself, iTunes would no longer start, giving me error 13014. So I returned the movie to the media folder and iTunes was able to start again. When I try to delete the movie from within iTunes, it now only gives the option to hide the movie.
Is there a way to safely remove the files from my hard drive without breaking iTunes?
Thanks,
Phil

No easy push-button solution I can think of.
You could export the main itunes Music playlist into a spreadsheet and use that to compare what windows explorer has.
Right-click Music in the itunes source list, export it as XML, and import it into a spreadsheet program so you can arrange it by whatever seems esiet to search on.
Another thing you could do, is create a blank library, import all your existing music and see how many songs are in the new library vs. your old library. For god's sake make sure you have the itunes preferene to copy files turned off when you do this, so you don't gets a bunch of duplicated files on your hard drive.
Then you could switch back and forth between your libraries to check things out.
How to use alternate libraries:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/8.1/en/15502.html
Just keep in mind, itunes always tries to use the last library it opened unless you do the shift-start.

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