List of New Wave movements

New Wave may refer to various artistic movements in film, music and literature. These include:

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
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
Philippine New Wave, also known as Filipino New Wave or Contemporary Philippine Cinema
Romanian New Wave
British New Wave
Taiwan New Wave
Thai New Wave
Toronto New Wave
New Hollywood, also known as the American New Wave
New generation (Malayalam film movement), new wave of Indian Malayalam cinema
Mexican ('Nuevo Cine Mexicano')

Bossa nova a genre of Brazilian music (while it is commonly translated as "new wave", the word "bossa" originally means "small elevation on a surface" like the bump on a camel's back or a lump resulting from a blow, and more informally "bossa" came to mean "a way, a quality" of doing something with grace, that makes you stand out)
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
New wave of traditional heavy metal
New Wave revival
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