法国新浪潮（法语：La Nouvelle Vague）是影评人对于1950年代末至1960年代的一些法国导演团体所给予的称呼，他们主要受到意大利新写实主义与古典好莱坞电影的影响。法国新浪潮的特色在于，导演不只主导电影，更成为电影的作者和创作人。风格特色包括快速切换场景镜头等创新剪接手法，或是像「跳接」，在整体叙事上制造突兀不连贯效果。 法国新浪潮的主要代表人物包括路易·马卢（Louis Malle）、楚浮（François Truffaut）、尚卢·高达（Jean-Luc Godard）、埃里克·侯麦、克劳德·夏布洛与贾克·希维特（Jacques Rivette）等人。

The New Wave (French:La Nouvelle Vague) is a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s.

Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of the literary period pieces being made in France and written by novelists, along with their spirit of youthful iconoclasm, the desire to shoot more current social issues on location, and their intention of experimenting with the film form. "New Wave" is an example of European art cinema. Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm.