List of New Wave movements

Movements in film

• The New Wave, French New Wave, or Nouvelle Vague, the inaugural New Wave cinema movement
• Australian New Wave
• Indian New Wave, or Parallel cinema, which began around the same time as the French New Wave
• Japanese New Wave, or Nuberu Bagu, which also developed around the same time as the French Nouvelle Vague
• Persian New Wave, or Iranian New Wave, started in the 1960s
• New German Cinema, new wave of German cinema
• New Nigerian Cinema, also known as Nigerian New Wave
• Czechoslovak New Wave
• Cinema Novo or Novo Cinema, a movement in Brazilian and Portuguese film
• Hong Kong New Wave, a movement in Hong Kong film led by Tsui Hark
• Romanian New Wave
• British New Wave
• Taiwan New Wave
• Thai New Wave
• New Hollywood, also known as the American New Wave
• New generation, new wave of Indian Malayalam cinema

  Movements in music

• Bossa nova, a genre of Brazilian music
• New wave music, in the United Kingdom, the United States and various enclaves in the late 1970s and through the 1980s
• New wave of British heavy metal
• New wave of American heavy metal
• Neue Deutsche Welle, the German new wave music movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s
• Yugoslav new wave, aka Novi val, Novi talas or Nov bran, the new wave scene in Yugoslavia in the late 1970s and early 1980s
• Nueva ola, a form of Spanish language popular music inspired on the musical developments of US and Europe in the 1950s and 1960s
• Onda Nueva, a type of Venezuelan jazz/classical music, founded by Aldemaro Romero

  Movements in literature

• New Wave science fiction, a movement in the 1960s and 1970s