I can't play HD movies on laptop smoothly, any idea?

I have downloaded few movies through torrent. I used MPC-HC, it worked well in the beginning but now it stuck at certain points. Tried VLC but no gain. But whenever i play it, my disk usage goes 100 percent whereas i have much space on Hard disk. I have.
8GB RAM
Intel Core i5
Lenovo G510

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