ITunes movies keep disappearing

I have a large collection of movies in iTunes and some keep disappearing.  I haven't looked for music and apps, but I'll redownload the movie from iCloud and I'll quite iTunes, reopen it, and the movie is gone again!  I went into the actual iTunes folder and the first thing I noticed was that there 4 or 5 .tmp files, exec files (iTunes Files is what it says in the quick preview), .itdb files, and .xml files.  The normal iTunes Music and Mobile Applications are in there along some others.  So I went into iTunes Music>Movies and all the movies that were missing were there and some duplicates that I redownloaded.  I would prefer not having to start a whole new iTunes folder and drag my content back in.  Is there a file that I can delete or alter that will fix it?  Please help.

Hello Rpc30,
There are a couple of options I have that should remedy your situation.
The first would be to delete and re-download the items that have an exclamation mark, then redownload them from the iTunes store.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
The other option would be to search for the missing movies manually.
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
Cheers,
Allen

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