Georges Polti wrote a book in 1868, giving a list of 36 dramatic situations or plots. You can see it free at Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/thirtysixdramati00polt
He gives examples of the situations. He drew many of them from Greek tragedy, but he also included literature up to and including Dostoevsky. To cover important literature that did not perfectly fit his broad categories, Polti gives subcategories.
This book illustrates a couple of points.
There are no “original ideas”. Writers may produce novel
presentations, and movies may take advantage of new technology with the same
goal, but the situations they present are limited to these 36. Test it for yourself with a random selection of 36 books. Then do it with some of the top-selling books this century. Let us know what you find.
Second, Polti’s examples come from literature going back thousands of years, including the Tanakh, the roots of which go back at least to 5000 BCE, before the Semites and Indo-Europeans or Indo-Iranians differentiated out of the parent culture that produced the flood stories in all three traditions. As such, at least some of these situations existed in oral traditions – necessarily oral because this goes back before the origin of writing. The situations that get us interested in a book or movie or manga, are the same ones that got our ancestors interested enough in a story to pass it down, some of them for thousands of years. These are the truly shared concepts of the human mind. Compare them to the oral tradition of your own culture.
Polti has references to historical events as examples of the situations. This reinforces Olrik’s statement that orally transmitted narratives originate as realistic descriptions of cultural or historical events. Polti refers to written material in every case, but identifies another facet of the link between oral and written material.
I forget how I came across Polti, but I used it in a novel and wrote about it as an appendix to a series of possible posts about how to use Olrik's principles to write Regency romances. It reinforces that modern literature, including film which I keep saying is oral literature, relates to our most ancient favorites told around campfires as long as humans have told stories. If you're interested in the details, let me know.