Movements in film
- The New Wave, French New Wave, or Nouvelle Vague, the first New Wave cinema movement
- Australian New Wave
- Austrian New Wave
- Indian New Wave, or Parallel cinema
- Japanese New Wave, or Nuberu Bagu, which also happened at the same time as the French Nouvelle Vague
- Persian New Wave, or Iranian New Wave, began in the 1960s
- New German Cinema, a new wave of German cinema
- Berlin School (filmmaking), also called Nouvelle Vague Allemand, the second new wave of German cinema
- New Nigerian Cinema, also called 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 called 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 called the American New Wave
- New generation (Malayalam film movement), a new wave in Indian Malayalam cinema
- Mexican ('Nuevo Cine Mexicano')
Movements in music
- Bossa nova is a type of Brazilian music. The word "bossa" originally meant "a small bump or lump on a surface," like the one on a camel's back. Over time, it came to mean "a way or quality of doing something with grace that makes it stand out."
- New wave music was popular in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other areas during the late 1970s and throughout 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 was a German music movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- Yugoslav new wave, also known as Novi val, Novi talas, or Nov bran, was a music scene in Yugoslavia during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- Nueva ola is a style of Spanish-language popular music influenced by musical trends from the United States and Europe in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Onda Nueva is a type of Venezuelan music that blends jazz and classical styles. It was started by Aldemaro Romero.
- Eurodisco is called "new wave" music by some Vietnamese-American communities.
Movements in literature
- New Wave science fiction, a period in the 1960s and 1970s
- New Wave (manga), a period in the manga world during the late 1970s and early 1980s