diff --git a/src/drivers/win/window.cpp b/src/drivers/win/window.cpp
index bf2b47dc..3f6eb9e7 100644
--- a/src/drivers/win/window.cpp
+++ b/src/drivers/win/window.cpp
@@ -1320,7 +1320,15 @@ LRESULT FAR PASCAL AppWndProc(HWND hWnd,UINT msg,WPARAM wParam,LPARAM lParam)
 				char*& fname = recent_movie[wParam - MOVIE_FIRST_RECENT_FILE];
 				if(fname)
 				{
-					FCEUI_LoadMovie(fname, 1, false, false);
+					if (!FCEUI_LoadMovie(fname, 1, false, false))
+					{
+						int result = MessageBox(hWnd,"Remove from list?", "Could Not Open Recent File", MB_YESNO);
+						if (result == IDYES)
+						{
+							RemoveRecentItem((wParam - MOVIE_FIRST_RECENT_FILE), recent_movie, MAX_NUMBER_OF_MOVIE_RECENT_FILES);
+							UpdateRMenu(recentmoviemenu, recent_movie, MENU_MOVIE_RECENT, MOVIE_FIRST_RECENT_FILE);
+						}
+					}
 				}
 			}
 
@@ -1752,7 +1760,17 @@ LRESULT FAR PASCAL AppWndProc(HWND hWnd,UINT msg,WPARAM wParam,LPARAM lParam)
 
 			case FCEUX_CONTEXT_LOADLASTMOVIE:
 				if(recent_movie[0])
-					FCEUI_LoadMovie(recent_movie[0], 1, false, false);
+				{
+					if (!FCEUI_LoadMovie(recent_movie[0], 1, false, false))
+					{
+						int result = MessageBox(hWnd,"Remove from list?", "Could Not Open Recent File", MB_YESNO);
+						if (result == IDYES)
+						{
+							RemoveRecentItem(0, recent_movie, MAX_NUMBER_OF_MOVIE_RECENT_FILES);
+							UpdateRMenu(recentmoviemenu, recent_movie, MENU_MOVIE_RECENT, MOVIE_FIRST_RECENT_FILE);
+						}
+					}
+				}
 				break;
 
 			//View comments and subtitles
diff --git a/src/movie.cpp b/src/movie.cpp
index 73b03863..1e129586 100644
--- a/src/movie.cpp
+++ b/src/movie.cpp
@@ -726,10 +726,10 @@ void MovieData::dumpSavestateTo(std::vector<char>* buf, int compressionLevel)
 }
 
 //begin playing an existing movie
-void FCEUI_LoadMovie(const char *fname, bool _read_only, bool tasedit, int _pauseframe)
+bool FCEUI_LoadMovie(const char *fname, bool _read_only, bool tasedit, int _pauseframe)
 {
 	if(!tasedit && !FCEU_IsValidUI(FCEUI_PLAYMOVIE))
-		return;
+		return true;	//adelikat: file did not fail to load, so let's return true here, just do nothing
 
 	assert(fname);
 
@@ -744,10 +744,10 @@ void FCEUI_LoadMovie(const char *fname, bool _read_only, bool tasedit, int _paus
 	
 	strcpy(curMovieFilename, fname);
 	FCEUFILE *fp = FCEU_fopen(fname,0,"rb",0);
-	if (!fp) return;
+	if (!fp) return false;
 	if(fp->isArchive() && !_read_only) {
 		FCEU_PrintError("Cannot open a movie in read+write from an archive.");
-		return;
+		return true;	//adelikat: file did not fail to load, so return true (false is only for file not exist/unable to open errors
 	}
 
 #ifdef WIN32
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ void FCEUI_LoadMovie(const char *fname, bool _read_only, bool tasedit, int _paus
 	if(currMovieData.savestate.size() != 0)
 	{
 		bool success = MovieData::loadSavestateFrom(&currMovieData.savestate);
-		if(!success) return;
+		if(!success) return true;	//adelikat: I guess return true here?  False is only for a bad movie filename, if it got this far the file was god?
 	}
 
 	//if there is no savestate, we won't have this crucial piece of information at the start of the movie.
@@ -810,6 +810,8 @@ void FCEUI_LoadMovie(const char *fname, bool _read_only, bool tasedit, int _paus
 	    LoggingEnabled = 2;
 	}
 	#endif
+	
+	return true;
 }
 
 static void openRecordingMovie(const char* fname)
diff --git a/src/movie.h b/src/movie.h
index 8cddc411..be919b39 100644
--- a/src/movie.h
+++ b/src/movie.h
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ extern bool autoMovieBackup;
 bool CheckFileExists(const char* filename);	//Receives a filename (fullpath) and checks to see if that file exists
 void FCEUI_MakeBackupMovie(bool dispMessage);
 void FCEUI_SaveMovie(const char *fname, EMOVIE_FLAG flags, std::wstring author);
-void FCEUI_LoadMovie(const char *fname, bool read_only, bool tasedit, int _stopframe);
+bool FCEUI_LoadMovie(const char *fname, bool read_only, bool tasedit, int _stopframe);
 void FCEUI_MoviePlayFromBeginning(void);
 void FCEUI_StopMovie(void);
 bool FCEUI_MovieGetInfo(FCEUFILE* fp, MOVIE_INFO& info, bool skipFrameCount = false);