Phantom Files in iTunes Movie Sync Page

Hi
I seem to have a few movies shown available to sync up to both my iPad and iPhone in the sync movies page in iTunes, however I can't locate them anywhere on my Macbook. They are really old files that I once had synced to a previous iPhone and they seem to be stuck in iTunes. I have tried to look for the files using Spotlight with no luck and when I tried to sync one to my iPhone a message box came up saying the file couldn't be found but the file still remains.
Does anyone know how to clean up iTunes and get rid of these dummy files?
Thanks

I've managed to sort this out. I didn't have "Movies" selected in iTunes preferences. Once I checked the box, the said movie files appeared in iTunes under "Movies" with the exclamation mark next to them. I was able to highlight them all and delete.

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