 Following this, she appeared in "Così" with Toni Collette, "Lust and Revenge" directed by Paul Cox, and "Paradise Road", a film starring Glenn Close set during World War II.In 1997, Rabe was cast in the leading role of Hester in “The Well (1997 film)”, an adaptation of Elizabeth Jolley's novel "The Well", for which she received an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress.More recently she appeared in the Jasmila Žbanić drama film "For Those Who Can Tell No Tales" and she narrated the upcoming 2015 film, "Symphony of the Wild".