Rampling starred in Claude Lelouch's 1984 film "Viva la vie (Long Live Life)", before going on to star in the cult-film "Max, Mon Amour" (1986), and appear in the thriller "Angel Heart" (1987). For a decade she withdrew from the public eye due to depression. In the late 1990s, she appeared in "The Wings of the Dove" (1997), played Miss Havisham in a BBC television adaptation of "Great Expectations" (1998), and starred in the film adaptation of Anton Chekov’s "The Cherry Orchard" (1999), directed by Michael Cacoyannis.. In 1997, she was a jury member at the 54th Venice International Film Festival.