A Little Princess

This 1995 film is based on a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self- worth. Sara's belief that "every girl's a princess" is tested to the limit, however, when word comes that her father was killed in action and his estate has been seized by the British government.
(Synopsis by James Meek IMDB)

Liesl Matthews as Sara Crewe

Capt. Crewe, Sarah and Miss Minchin

(Liam Cunningham plays General Tilney in Northanger Abbey 2007)

Sara and Becky


The 1939 film "The Little Princess" starring Shirley Temple is also good!