Movie Where Kid Lives In Attic Cant Remember The Name Of The Movie I Watched When I Was A Kid. Help Me :)?

Cant remember the name of the movie i watched when i was a kid. help me :)? - movie where kid lives in attic

I remember at the beginning of a child to his father, his mother (perhaps too) live in India and speaks of a legend. The war broke out, and that his father called to war. Back in England, where his father, his drops in a boarding school for girls.

They lived there for a while and I remember some of the charaters species. I remember this little girl who lost her mother and daughter spoke about his mother dying, and most live in the sky. and another daughter is a black girl do all the cleaning in the attic, do not speak and live.

I remember your father, "the" in the war and is in fact alive, but forget the memory and had no identification with him. When the school sent us to live in the attic with the young black man.

and not at the end, he recalls, and two daughters who live in the attic as "Papa"

Please help: P