Not sure if these are exactly what you're looking for, but these movies are all about a characters refusal to succumb to seemingly inevitable/inescapable circumstances:

On the Waterfront

The Trial (1967)

The Big Heat

Pans Labyrinth

High Noon

Michael Clayton

Minority Report

Devs, a science fiction miniseries by Alex Garland.

I'm thinking 'Butterfly Effect' because of the good ending even though he had to try and change course of many lives and actions that were going on countless of times and the endings were always horrific for some one but I'm pointing out this one just because of the ending that turned out well.

so youre talking scifi right? Arrival maybe? doesnt exactly change of fate, but sortof

T2 claims there is no fate but what you make, but all the following movies go back on that and suggest that at best you can delay fate, but fate will always happen in some form.

Adjustment bureau

X-men: Days of Future Past. All Terminator movies.

The Adjustment Bureau

Phineas and Ferb does this a lot. To the point where it’s used as the weapon against the enemy in both movies. The entire fucking Universe has it against Candace. She cannot bust her brothers. The universe will not allow it.

Disneys hércules

Not a movie but Berserk (I know there are movies, just don't watch them)

Terminator's the big one. First one's a bootstrap loop, ie fate asserts itself and future events guarantee past ones.

T2 is a Grandfather Paradox - the loop is broken by conditions supplied by the loop itself, creating a paradox in which relics of a future that won't happen have an effect.

Dark Fate is a kind of hybrid. It's the half way point of a bootstrap loop, but the characters intend to force a paradox, I think "fuck fate!" actually comes up in dialogue

A Knight's Tale comes to mind immediately

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What? Arrival claims that fate is inexorable and even being able to see the future means nothing because you’re doomed to live out the future you’ve already seen. That’s the exact opposite of changing fate.

Bootstrap and grandfather paradox are both the same thing. The only way Fry can be his own grandfather is because he already was his own grandfather. Terminator 2 is just a normal old could never happen because by changing the past you create a new future where time travelers will never try to change the past paradox.

Grandfather Paradox is the opposite to a Bootstrap Loop, and it predates Futurama - the premise is that you have travelled back to kill your grandfather, not be him, thereby preventing yourself being born, which means you couldn't have gone back to kill him.

T2's Grandfather Paradox is that by preventing the war, they're preventing Kyle being born (and incidentally, John) and the time travel tech he used existing, which should mean it's impossible to prevent the war.

Futurama inverted it as a meta joke.

Weird. I always heard it used to describe how Skynet can’t exist unless it’s sends terminator back to be used as the building blocks for Skynet, long before Futurama. Why do we need that term when paradox already describes it? I understand why we need bootstrap or predestination because it describes a scenario where we sidestep that issue even while the paradox already exists.

There are other theoretical types of paradox in conversations about time travel, though most are about how "real" time travel would affect the world.

For example, the Fermi Paradox - "where is everyone?". The idea is that, if time travel will ever be possible, travellers should already have started coming back way in the past already and any character or person learning about it for the first time should probably take it for granted.

Another, arguably a Grandfather Paradox variation, is the Hitler Paradox. Say for example I headed back in time to prevent something happening, did it successfully, and headed home. This is a paradox, because now there's no way I could have known about the event I just prevented in order to prevent it. There was no reason for the time travel to happen at all and the future I go back to shouldn't be the same as the one that sent me. So how did they send me, and will there be another me when I get back?

The Grandfather Paradox is specifically about the traveller's own existence. They have prevented themselves existing to prevent their own existence.

Skynet's situation is sort of another Bootstrap Loop, it seeds itself in the past just as John ensures his own conception, by steering Kyle towards it.

See I guess I have the same issue of why do we need a different term for “Hitler” and “grandfather” paradox. They both describe the same logical problem. You can’t go in to the past to change the past because by changing the past you create a present where you wouldn’t be able to go back and change the past. Whether it’s because you were never born or because you’ve never heard of Hitler seems to be splitting hairs.

Run Lola Run is a good example.