Trace (Seasons 1–31)

Trace (2007) is a Russian crime procedural you can watch online on iFILM, built around the Federal Expert Service — a forensic unit that handles the cases stumping regular investigators and prosecutors alike. Each episode is its own closed story. Thirty minutes, one crime, one resolution.

The FES team works where standard detective methods hit a wall: fingerprint analysis, trace chemistry, ballistics, tread mark reconstruction. The series launched on Russia's Pervyi Kanal in 2007 and has barely left the schedule since, cycling through cast members while keeping the format tight and the focus on method rather than melodrama.

If you want a Russian-made procedural with no dangling storylines and no family subplots eating up screen time, Trace is the rare one that holds to that format without digressing. Watch Trace online on iFILM.