Two of the most ex citing releases of 2009 — Ulrich Seidl’s “Import/ Export” and Roy Andersson’s “You, the Living” — are arriving on DVD this month, courtesy of the nice folks at Palisades Tartan Video.

The mood is as dismal as the weather in the Austrian “Import/Export.” It tells two stories that have nothing in common other than desperation.

Olga, a nurse and Internet sex worker in Ukraine, leaves her child and mother behind to go to Vienna in search of a better life. The best she can do is as a cleaning lady in a hospital for the aged, where her attempts to brighten up the place are met with resistance.

Paul is a young Austrian, unemployed and in debt, who tries to escape his angst by going to Ukraine with his stepfather, who installs gambling machines in poor areas of Central Europe and gets his kicks from kinky sex. (The director doesn’t stint on details.)

Seidl switches back and forth between Paul’s and Olga’s stories. The characters never cross paths, but their tales deliver the same message: Life sucks, and then you die. DVD extras include an interview with Seidl.

“You, the Living,” from Sweden, is a hilarious collection of 50 absurdist sketches involving a cross section of people in Stockholm.

If the people have anything in common, it’s their rotund bodies and gloomy minds. The most outlandish episode involves a man in overalls who is sentenced to the electric chair for destroying a 200-year-old set of china when one of his magic tricks fails.

Extras include commentary by Andersson and a 15-minute preview of a documentary on the making of “You, the Living.”