Possible Clues:

• Image capturing fish in river? On the contrary
• Common theme when sending back some of deportees
• A car that won't start is a common one in horror films
• Figure of speech from Hamlet's closing line
• Familiar cliché in storytelling, like 'the love triangle' or 'the girl next door'
• Left to head north then east in sort of metaphor?
• Busy businesswoman in a rom-com, e.g
• Recurring theme in pupil’s assessment overturned without resistance
• Meet cute in a rom-com, e.g
• Saying drink repelled European