Detective Anna (Seasons 1–2)

Detective Anna (2016) is a Russian period mystery series you can watch online on iFILM. The story unfolds in the fictional provincial town of Zatonsk in the late 1800s. Anna Mironova (Alexandra Nikiforova) rides a bicycle, wears bloomers and says exactly what she thinks. She also sees dead people.

The spirits of murder victims come to her, and she uses what they show her to crack cases the local police have given up on. The dynamic shifts when detective Yakov Shtolman (Dmitry Frid) arrives from St. Petersburg — methodical, sceptical, evidence-only. He sees Anna as a nuisance. She sees him as useful. What starts as friction gradually becomes an investigative partnership tracking murders that logic alone will not explain.

The show pulls off something unusual: proper detection, a supernatural thread, and real tension between two characters who have no business working together. Stream all episodes of Detective Anna online on iFILM.