Jaws

Jaws is a classic movie about a massive great white shark who is terrorizing an island and begins attacking and killing citizens.  The mayor of the town becomes very nervous about the situation because it is nearly tourist season so he hires professionals to take care of the shark.  After numerous tries by different people there are three who travel out into the deep water to try to track down the shark themselves.  After a grueling battle where the boat is destroyed and one of the three men is killed, they are finally able to kill the shark and paddle their way back to shore.
The camera work in this film is not very abstract. But the way the images are set up and the lack of being able to actually see the shark gives the film a terrifying aspect.  Even though it was not intentional for the shark to be hidden most of the movie, it made the audience use their own imagination as to what was happening underneath the water along with where it was going to attack and who was in danger.  There are several scenes in which the audience doesn't know where the shark is going to attack,  and right when you think that you know where it is, and who it's going to attack it drags someone else under the water where the only thing left for the audience to see is a pool of blood floating on top of the ocean.  Along with the visuals of the movie, Jaws has created one of the most recognizable film scores of all time.  Any time the music began to play, as an audience member your heart began to beat faster and you knew that the shark was there even with out being able to see it.  There was even moments where the music played and the anticipation built but the shark wasn't present, only the remains of something it had already attacked.
This movie really helped make Spielberg career.  It was incredible how he was capable of taking a huge mistake, like the mechanical shark not working, and turn it into the key aspect that makes the movie even better.