1. Overcoming the Monster (e.g. Dracula; Star Wars)
2. Rags to Riches (Cinderella; Jane Eyre)
3. The Quest (LotR; Harry Potter)
4. Voyage and Return (Alice in Wonderland; The Wizard of Oz)
5. Comedy (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
6. Tragedy (Macbeth; Breaking Bad)
7. Rebirth (A Christmas Carol; Beauty and the Beast)
Other major theories propose 36 dramatic situations, or 6 core emotional arcs.
The 6 core emotional arcs, per a U.Vermont analysis inspired by a Vonnegut thesis,
are defined by compounding the direction (rising or falling) of character fortune:
1. Rags to Riches (rising fortune)
2. Tragedy (declining fortune, i.e. "riches to rags")
3. Man in a hole (decline + rise)
4. Icarus (rise + decline)
5. Cinderella (rise + decline + rise)
6. Oedipus (decline + rise + decline)
Author Ronald Tobias proposed 20 "master plots"; Georges Polti, 36 "dramatic situations".
For purposes of spitballing story ideas, I think a smaller number yields a richer universe of possibilities. This brings us to Joseph Campbell's "monomyth" theory which proposes that all myths and narratives ultimately fit a template of "departure - initiation - return". George Lucas consciously mined this pattern for Luke Skywalker's heroic story arc (SW ep4~6), and we see it again anti-heroically in Anakin's corruption in The Prequel Trilogy (ep1~3). It is simultaneously true that Anakin's arc in The Prequel Trilogy is an "Icarus" pattern: Anakin's Force talent elevates his status from slave to rising-star Jedi padawan, but the magnitude of his talent attracts the attention of a corrupter who twists him into an infamous, fallen villain. If you follow the whole Vader arc from Ep1 through Ep6, his ultimate rejection of Palpatine and redemption as "Force ghost" alongside Yoda and Obi-wan makes his a "Cinderella" Pattern so technically Anakin is a Disney princess too.
Different genres merely mine different arenas of rise and fall: a "rags-to-riches" romance novel would follow a loneliness ("rags") to emotional-supply-security ("riches") arc. "Gone With the Wind" is simultaneously a "rags to riches to rags" story in the romance arena, and "riches to rags to riches" in the literal material security arena as Scarlett loses her family fortune in the Civil War only to rebuild financial security through ruthless business dealings.